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Writing ProcessDescriptive
EssayNarrative Essay
Exemplification
Essay Personal Essay
Common
WritingMistakes
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Tell the story of the first time
You rode your bike without training wheels
You drove a car
You went on a date
You stayed away from your parents overnight
You stayed awake all night
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Narrative Essay
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Dr. Maya Angelou is one of the most renowned andinfluential voices of our time. Hailed as a globalrenaissance woman, Dr. Angelou is a celebrated poet,memoirist, novelist, educator, dramatist, producer,actress, historian, filmmaker, and civil rights activist.
Born on April 4th, 1928, in St. Louis, Missouri, Dr.Angelou was raised in St. Louis and Stamps, Arkansas.In Stamps, Dr. Angelou experienced the brutality ofracial discrimination, but she also absorbed theunshakable faith and values of traditional African-
American family, community, and culture.
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Graduation by Maya Angelou, page 23 inGreat
Writing Meaning and Idea questions #1 and #2 on page 132
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A narrative is a story
A narrative essay is a story that has a specificpoint
It strives to teach a lesson or make a specific point
It is not a diary entry the story is linked to thepurpose of the essay
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Often written in 1st person I or we because it isbased on a personal story
Can also be written in 3rd person
Can never be written in 2nd person (You) Has specific sensory details to get the reader hooked
on the story Is developed in chronological order
Has verbs that help paint a picture and draw in thereader
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It needs everything a story needs (these areknown as the story elements):
Plot Setting
Characters
Dialogue
Conflict Climax
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What are some examples from this essay of the
narrative elements weve discussed so far?
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Personal experience;Told in first person I, me, my,we
Very descriptive Real characters Good use of dialogue to advance the story A moral
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Television shows wouldnt exist without the writerswho write them. For example, these big names allhave a stable of writers supplying them with
witticisms:
David Letterman Jay Leno
Stephen Colbert
Jon Stewart
Regis and Kelly Ophra Winfrey
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In writing the story, keep in mind the following:
Characters Conflicts
Dialogue
Climax
Resolution Work together as a writing team and put together a
winning narrative essay television pilot.
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Robert McKee - Scriptwriter
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Robert McKee on writing the Story
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As a life long benchwarmer for the mightyTroy
BuchananTrojans, Pete Hackers
goal in life is to have just one shot at
becoming a football hero.
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Setting
Whats the setting of this narrative? Describe it using figurativelanguage, appealing to the five senses.
Character Besides Pete, what characters are in this story? What are their names?
What are their histories? How do they dress, act, talk? Whos theprotagonist? Whos the antagonist?
Conflict What is the conflict here? Whose at odds with who? Wheres the
tension? Man versus man? Man versus himself? Man versusnature/God? What is Petes conflict?
Dialogue How do the characters sound? What do they say? Write some typical
dialogue the protagonist might have with his antagonist Climax
What is the peak of this story? What is Petes defining moment? Howdoes it happen? How is it played out? What is the moral of theepisode? What is the challenge?
Resolution
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