Grad School 7B Writing a Narrative

Writing Your Narrative

Plan Your Plot

Personal

Narrative

START

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Learning Objective

We will: Use what we learned from other authors we will develop a detailed plot outline for our own personal narrative

The Prompt

Write a personal narrative that describes a moment in your life when you learned an important lesson. Focus on a very small slice of your life, like one event or one day.

Your final essay will be a minimum of 5 paragraphs and 2 full pages long.

The Requirements

Your Plot Outline Should have:

An Exposition that introduces the characters, setting and main conflict.

A turning point or climax

A Rising Action that contains 2-3 events related to the conflict

A resolution that explains the lesson you learned from the experience

A falling action containing 1-2 events that help resolve the confict

Plan your Plot

Choose one of the graphic organizers and pLan your Plot! You will share the document with me so I can give you feedback on this step in your writing process.

Plot Pyramid

Graphic Novel

Plot Diagram

Questions?

Make SUre to contact your Instructor!

Mrs. Rawlings

sarah.rawlings@primaveratech.orgCall or text: (480)498-6117 Schedule tutoring: https://sarahrawlings.youcanbook.me

Resources

Teaching Without Frills. (2015). Writing a Personal Narrative for Kids - Episode 2: Making a Plan. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBQ8dU0KPtg