Characteristics of Personal Narratives
What type of prewriting is best?
Academic Vocabulary
Key Ideas and Details of Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes
Elements of a good story
100
To share an experience YOU had with the reader. (Remember, no one can tell your experience like YOU can)
What is the main purpose of a personal narrative?
100
Write an essay explaining the similarities between Rosa Parks and Barbara Jordan
What is a bubble map (compare/contrast)
100
marking the text with symbols to reflect the thinking you are doing as you read
What is a metacognitive marker?
100
The narrator, Cindy, is asked to give up her glove to another player
What is the significant incident in "Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes"?
100
The sequence of events that make up a story or novel.
What is plot?
200
First person!
What point of view is used in writing a personal narrative?
200
Write an essay describing choices you have made and the consequences of those choices.
What is a bubble map?
200
Reading a text and restating it in you own words.
What is paraphrasing
200
Cindy gives it up but is disappointed and the incident makes her feel bad.
What is the response from the narrator?
200
a person or an animal that takes part in the action of a literary work.
What is a character?
300
To discuss why the incident was significant, how the event changed the author or what the author learned.
What is the purpose of the refection in a personal narrative?
300
Write an essay about a memorable day.
What is a flow-map?
300
A kind of thinking and writing that explores the significance of an experience.
What is reflection?
300
She feels as if she does not belong even though she wanted to make the team.
What is the reflection from the narrator?
300
words or phrases that connect ideas, details, or events in writing.
What are transitions?
400
incident-response-reflection
What are the key parts of a personal narrative?
400
Create similies (hint: as silly as a monkey, as loud as thunder).
What is a bridge map?
400
an essay that makes an assertion and explains it with details, reasons, text evidence, and commentary.
What is an expository essay?
400
The reader may think how important and short-lived a felling of belonging can be.
How can you use this lesson later in the future?
400
Two poems and their authors that we read this week with the themes of choices.
What are "Choices" by Nikki Giovanni and "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost?
500
This writing is written in a third-person point of view, uses facts and details, and is used to explain, persuade, or to compare and contrast.
What is expository writing?
500
Write an essay explaining the human body systems.
What is a brace map?
500
The suggested meaning or emotion associated with a word - beyond its literal definition. Snake = evil
What is connotation?
500
"Just that quick I didn't belong, and I remember thinking something always has to spoil it." (Crutcher, p. 16).
What is textual evidence to support the narrator's feeling that she doesn't belong?
500
a piece of writing that describes an incident and includes a personal response to and reflection on the incident.
What is a personal narrative?
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