The Narrative Essay Escape Room

The narrative essay

Horror Escape room

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Introduction

"A ghost is trapped in this house, doomed to wander it until it regains all its memories. To help it find them, you must first overcome all the challenges and collect the missing objects in your inventory. Explore the house and try not to gettrapped yourself…"

Explore the house

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What is a narrative essay?

An essay that is a story with a point.

An essay full of statistics

A long text message

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A narrative essay should include

Actions and details

Math equations

Only numbers

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What should a narrative essay grab?

A pen or pencil

The reader's attentions

A snack

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Which of the following is a good prompt for a narrative essay?

Recount a time you had to overcome a difficult situation. How did you prevail and what did you learn?

Describe a good student at Verrado.

Write a detailed report of the crime.

This is not correct...

Find the key to continue

Continue exploring the house

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A narrative essay should have a beginning, middle and end. It can also include:

Foreshadowing and flashbacks

Grammar mistakes

Nonsense

Spelling errors

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Your personal narrative essay will most likely be written in

1st person

3rd person

4th person

2nd person

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What will help move your story along?

Improper punctuation

Excessive description

Slang

Dialogue

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Which pronouns can you use in a personal narrative essay that you usually aren't allowed to use?

I, me, we

He, she, it

What's a pronoun?

you, yours

You found a secret message

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Remember these notes and play them on the piano in the correct order

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...Keep playing

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...One more

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Start over...

You found a new item for your inventory

Continue exploring the house

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Use the magnifying glass to search for the code and then insert it into the typewriter

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Enter the secret code

Code

When you start writing your personal narrative essay, you want to make sure you know your

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Parts of speech

Main idea and author's purpose

Multiplication tables

Which of the following is a topic for a personal narrative essay?

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Some made up nonsense that doesn't even sound realistic.

The time you had to deal with a very difficult person.

A typical day at school.

Which of the following are parts of the writing process:

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Nouns, verbs, pronouns, adjectives, adverbs, conjunctions, prepositions and interjections.

Background, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution.

Prewriting, drafting, outlining, revising, editing.

A briefcase has appeared...

It's locked...look in the inventory for something to open it

Congratulations

You have recovered all the memories of the ghost! Now it can finally rest and you can escape from the house!

Are you sure you want to exit?

You will lose all progress made so far...

Back

Exit

Oh, no. You failed...

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