Personal Narratives
A personal narrative is a fictional account.
What is False? (Personal narratives are non-fiction real accounts told in first person).
The relationship between Richard Blanco and his Abuela, as shown when she panics about the turkey's pop-up timer.
What is a close relationship where they trust each other?
The literary device used in the sentence: "Lily's eyes were diamonds, sparkling in the bright sunlight".
What is a metaphor?
If the entire class was ecstatic about a snow day, they felt this way.
What is very happy or thrilled?
This hand tool is specifically designed to hold objects firmly in place.
What are vise grips?
The point-of-view perspective from which personal narratives are always written.
What is first person? (Using "I", "me", "my")
Bertie Bowman used details about the train wheels sounding like a song and the blur of towns to show, not tell, his experience—known as these types of details.
What are sensory details?
Giving human traits or actions to non-human objects, such as "The flowers danced happily in the gentle breeze".
What is personification?
Ahmed had a sudden realization about how to solve his math problem. A realization is an...
What is understanding?
The specific part of a space shuttle that carries the astronaut crew.
What is the orbiter?
Bertie Bowman's perspective of the train ride to Washington.
He had a positive tone of the train ride.
The main conflicting cultures that Richard Blanco navigates in "The First Real San Giving Day".
What are American and Cuban cultures?
A comparison between two unlike things using the words "like" or "as".
What is a simile? (e.g., "Lily's eyes sparkled like the stars")
Wearing a bright winter coat on a crowded beach would make a person easily discernible, which means this:
What is easy to see or recognize?
Astronomers use this scientific instrument to analyze a planet's atmosphere.
What is a spectrograph?
The primary text structure generally used to organize the events in a personal narrative.
What is chronological sequence of events?
Why did Rosa Parks say that she was not physically tired on the day she refused to move her seat?
What is to show the reader that she was only tired of the injustice of segregation?
The literary device used in the sentence: "The homemade turkey place mats waited patiently on the table for everyone to sit down".
What is personification?
A word meaning "without stopping" or "continuously," as in "The phone _______ rang all afternoon in the busy office".
What is incessantly?
Identify which of these quoted dialogue sentences is punctuated correctly:
A) "Would you please close the door?" asked Jon.
B) Jon said, "please close the door".
What is A?
Bertie Bowman's tone when he arrives in Washington and says, "This is what I have been waiting for all my life".
What is confident?
How Mike Massimino felt about the Earth when he said, “The first was the view out of the window of John Glenn’s spaceship—the view of the Earth, how beautiful it was on the big screen. I wanted to see that view.”
What is a positive perspective?
Out of these three options, which sentence uses strong verbs and descriptive adjectives to give the clearest picture:
A) The old green tree grew tall in the dark forest.
B) A gentle breeze rustled the colorful autumn leaves.
C) The hot sun made the sandy beach feel warm.
What is B?
Name an object that has curvature (a curved shape).
Various
Example (a bowl, a ball, the Earth, etc.)
What do you do to separate a quote from the speech tag?
What is the use of punctuation?