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Personal Narratives

Personal Narratives. True Stories That Have Really Happened to You (At Least You Witnessed It). Only One Event: Think of a Time When You Felt:. Tickled Embarrassed Sad Angry Disappointed Proud Nervous Scared. One Event (cont.). Impatient Irritated Miserable Helpful Smart Silly

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Personal Narratives

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  1. Personal Narratives True Stories That Have Really Happened to You (At Least You Witnessed It) Donna Vincent, Muhlenberg County Schools

  2. Only One Event: Think of a Time When You Felt: • Tickled • Embarrassed • Sad • Angry • Disappointed • Proud • Nervous • Scared Donna Vincent, Muhlenberg County Schools

  3. One Event (cont.) • Impatient • Irritated • Miserable • Helpful • Smart • Silly • Injured Donna Vincent, Muhlenberg County Schools

  4. Insight: Life Lesson Learned • Reflect back on the event • Think about what you learned at the time from having the experience • OR look back and learn from it now • Share your life lesson with your audience in a subtle way Donna Vincent, Muhlenberg County Schools

  5. Details to Include: (Only the Ones that Made you Feel ____) • See • Hear • Smell • Taste • Touch Donna Vincent, Muhlenberg County Schools

  6. Details to Include: (The Ones that SHOWED you Felt _____) • Dialogue • Action • Thoughts Donna Vincent, Muhlenberg County Schools

  7. Slow Motion Parts • Find the part in you personal narrative that would be put in slow motion if this were a movie • Slow that part down with a snapshot so the audience can fully experience the most important moment(s) in your narrative • Use a lot of description, sensory detail, action… Donna Vincent, Muhlenberg County Schools

  8. Fast-Forwarding: Transitions • Don’t tell a bed-to-bed story • Leave out the boring parts that readers would skip over • Move the reader along with transitions so she never gets lost • Transitions can be accomplished with dialogue, thoughts, actions… Donna Vincent, Muhlenberg County Schools

  9. Organization • Lead: Get the readers’ attention and get readers on the right track with Dialogue/Thoughts/Action • Body: Make your audience feel the way you felt by reliving the experience (sensory details, dialogue, thoughts, action) • Closing: Make it feel finished and include and check to make sure the reader sees the life lesson. Donna Vincent, Muhlenberg County Schools

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