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Personal Narrative

This guide will help you get started on writing your personal narrative by focusing on key steps. You'll learn how to zero in on a significant topic, identify a story worth telling, and outline the basics of your narrative. Through brief jotting exercises, you'll zoom out to examine your story's emotional turning points and develop your climax. The structure includes exposition, rising action, and resolution. By the end, you'll create a draft of your personal story that resonates with readers.

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Personal Narrative

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  1. Personal Narrative Getting Started (You’ll need some notebook paper and something to write with)

  2. Process: • Zeroing In on a Topic (10 min.) • Identifying a story worthy of telling • Jotting (5 min.) • Getting the basics • Zooming out to examine your story (15 min.) • Filling out the rest of the story • Elaborating on a climactic moment (15 min.) • Working backwards and writing a draft

  3. Zeroing in on a topic… • Review your choices: • 6-word short stories • Good at/Bad at/Want to try • Fo’ sho’ n’ tell • Favorite Movie/Book Story Map • Favorite Thing homework • Identify a moment of: • Big Change • Drama • Extreme Emotion • Magic • Memory

  4. Jotting • Jot down your moment • Try to remember who was involved and where it took place. • Try to remember your overall feelings or impression of the moment.

  5. Zoom Out • Your moment: • The part of your life where things change in a big, permanent, emotional way is probably the CLIMAXof your story. Exposition: Introduce your characters and tell when and where your story takes place. Climax: the big turning point where your life will never be the same… Suspence: Maybe you could try to keep your reader guessing by being secretive about what is about to happen… Rising Action: What happened that started this whole thing? Resolution: What happened in the end?

  6. Elaborating • Draft Heading: • Name • Date • Personal Narrative Draft 1 • Advisor • Remember • SKIP LINES • Indent Paragraphs • Come up with a cool title • The climaxwill probably be the part of the story your readers remember best so I want it to be as strong as possible. • Try starting your story by following your plot map and starting at the start. • Create a DRAFTof your personal story to share with me.

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