English-narration

The focus for the next three weeks is personal narratives. Our writer's workshop will include three stories, editing, peer reviews, refining ideas, and improving our work. We will be looking at a basic plot structure and using it to guide our personal writing.

Story # 1 is an injury story. Students will be assessed in three main areas:

1. Main focus-Climax
2. Second focus-Establishing Setting and Characters
3. Quality of Written Expression (Grammar, Spelling, Paragraph Structure, etc.)

Monday:

Share injury stories as a class

Go over basic plot structure
Notes
Start prewriting

Notes

• to narrate is to give account-in speech or writing-of a process or series of events that take place over a period of time.
• time is the heart of your narrative/management of time is essential
• your job is to find the right amount of detail for the events being accounted
• conflict is the fuel for the plot