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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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