1. Do Now #12: Take out your SOAPSTone and pre- writing. Take out your SOAPSTone and pre- writing. Make sure the SUBJECT includes the event and your insight stated in the form of a sentence. Make sure the SUBJECT includes the event and your insight stated in the form of a sentence.

2. A narrative re-creates an experience for a central purpose: usually to reveal an insight about the action or people involved. You might write about an experience in which you encountered people from a culture different from your own. You might write about a turning point in your life—perhaps a time when you were forced suddenly to grow up, a time when you faced a difficult challenge, or a time when you reassessed your values. A narrative should focus on a central insight, but that insight is often presented indirectly as the story unfolds. This assignment should be based on your own experience (no fiction, please), and use of the word I is of course appropriate. A narrative re-creates an experience for a central purpose: usually to reveal an insight about the action or people involved. You might write about an experience in which you encountered people from a culture different from your own. You might write about a turning point in your life—perhaps a time when you were forced suddenly to grow up, a time when you faced a difficult challenge, or a time when you reassessed your values. A narrative should focus on a central insight, but that insight is often presented indirectly as the story unfolds. This assignment should be based on your own experience (no fiction, please), and use of the word I is of course appropriate.

3. Aim: How do you engage in the writing process to draft an effective narrative? Pre-Writing Drafting

4. Aim: How do you engage in the writing process to draft an effective narrative? 1.In your introduction, put readers on the scene and get right to the action. As I pulled into my parents’ driveway, I realized how loud the radio was. I turned it down, peeled my legs off the blue vinyl seat, and lugged my pile of laundry up to the front door. The doorknob wouldn’t turn and I still hadn’t gotten around to making myself a duplicate key. As I pulled into my parents’ driveway, I realized how loud the radio was. I turned it down, peeled my legs off the blue vinyl seat, and lugged my pile of laundry up to the front door. The doorknob wouldn’t turn and I still hadn’t gotten around to making myself a duplicate key.

5. Aim: How do you engage in the writing process to draft an effective narrative? 2.Be open to other possibilities. For example, you may want to begin at a later point in the story and then "flash back" to an earlier time. 3.Use specific details to help readers visualize people and places. 4.Use active verbs to move the story along. 5.Consider using dialogue to develop the personalities of some of the characters.

6. Aim: How do you engage in the writing process to draft an effective narrative? 6. In the conclusion, make the significance of the event clear to readers. I smiled. He patted me on the shoulder and walked away, shaking his head and chuckling. I was relieved. I did still exist in his mind, on his tape. But I was only a part-time visitor now, and I couldn’t help wondering how long it would be before I was permanently erased. I smiled. He patted me on the shoulder and walked away, shaking his head and chuckling. I was relieved. I did still exist in his mind, on his tape. But I was only a part-time visitor now, and I couldn’t help wondering how long it would be before I was permanently erased.

7. Aim: How do you engage in the writing process to draft an effective narrative? Pre- Writing Drafting Global Revision