The Narrative Essay Escape Room

The narrative essay

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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 full of statistics

An essay that is a story with a point.

A long text message

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A narrative essay should include

Math equations

Only numbers

Actions and details

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What should a narrative essay grab?

The reader's attentions

A snack

A pen or pencil

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

Write a detailed report of the crime.

Describe a good student at Verrado.

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

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:

Grammar mistakes

Foreshadowing and flashbacks

Spelling errors

Nonsense

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Your personal narrative essay will most likely be written in

3rd person

1st person

2nd person

4th person

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What will help move your story along?

Excessive description

Improper punctuation

Dialogue

Slang

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

He, she, it

I, me, we

you, yours

What's a pronoun?

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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02

...Keep playing

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...One more

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

224

Enter the secret code

Code

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

Multiplication tables

Main idea and author's purpose

Parts of speech

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

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

A typical day at school.

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

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Which of the following are parts of the writing process:

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...

Exit

Back

Oh, no. You failed...

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