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Upcoming dates. Thursday (4/7) – in-class workday and mini-conferences about proposals 4/12- Rough draft and peer review 4/13 & 4/14 - Conferences 4/19 – Final project due and presentations Absences and sickness. Resources. Student work. What is a Narrative Essay?.

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  1. Upcoming dates • Thursday (4/7) – in-class workday and mini-conferences about proposals • 4/12- Rough draft and peer review • 4/13 & 4/14 - Conferences • 4/19 – Final project due and presentations • Absences and sickness

  2. Resources • Student work

  3. What is a Narrative Essay? • If written as a story, the essay should include all the parts of a story. • This means that you must include an introduction, plot, characters, setting, climax, and conclusion. • The essay should have a purpose. • Make a point! Think of this as the thesis of your story. If there is no point to what you are narrating, why narrate it at all? • The essay should be written from a clear point of view. • Use clear and concise language throughout the essay. • Much like the descriptive essay, narrative essays are effective when the language is carefully, particularly, and artfully chosen. Use specific language to evoke specific emotions and senses in the reader. • The use of the first person pronoun ‘I’ is welcomed. • Do not abuse this guideline! Though it is welcomed it is not necessary—nor should it be overused for lack of clearer diction. • As always, be organized! • Have a clear introduction that sets the tone for the remainder of the essay. Do not leave the reader guessing about the purpose of your narrative. Remember, you are in control of the essay, so guide it where you desire (just make sure your audience can follow your lead).

  4. Getting Started • Create a timeline • You do this by creating a timeline of the period you want to write about, then listing the key events and emotional experiences that happened at each point. • Start journaling your life experiences, including your memories, thoughts and feelings. It doesn't matter if you don't know what to say, worry about saying it right, or simply can't remember the details. Just get started. • Once you have something down, you can start picking and choosing which experiences you want to focus on in the narrative.

  5. "The Hero's Journey" • The hero's journey is the classic story structure of great adventures, including: • Homer's "The Iliad, • " Virgil's "The Aeneid, • " Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings,” • Baum's "The Wizard of Oz." • Many contemporary memoirs also tell of a hero's journey. • "Eat, Pray, Love," by Elizabeth Gilbert, • "Dreams of My Father," by Barack Obama.

  6. Stages of the Hero's Journey • The stages of the Hero's Journey: Innocence -> Call to Action -> The Journey -> Climax -> King/Queen • In the innocence stage, the hero or heroine lives in a balanced world. Everything is familiar and known. • Then a crisis happens that upsets the hero or heroine's world. Perhaps someone dies, an enemy appears, or a health challenge occurs. This creates a call to action, which launches the character on a journey or quest. The hero or heroine leaves the familiar world in search of justice, peace, answers, treasures or the elixir of life. • The journey is the adventure itself. Along the way, the hero or heroine encounters obstacles and foes, which can be external enemies, threatening situations or internal demons. The character also finds tools and friends, including guides, wizards, talismans and gifts. Throughout the journey, the main character needs to overcome his or her weaknesses, while discovering inner strengths. • At the climax, the hero or heroine faces the final battle or ultimate test. The character must apply all the lessons learned along the journey, to defeat the enemy and win the throne. • At this point, the character becomes a king or queen. The king or queen has earned the right to teach others and share the lessons learned along the journey. The kingdom becomes the new balanced world, where the king or queen shares justice, peace, treasures and the elixirs of life

  7. Your Life as a Hero's Journey • Everone has been on hero’s journey. The call to action might have been a car accident, poverty, the death of a loved one, an illness, or an inner challenge. Your journey might have been the quest for wealth, health, self-expression, love, peace or justice. • Along the way, you may have felt challenged by societal beliefs, competitors, doubtful relatives, or your own fears. And you have been helped by teachers, guides, and friends. As you learned valuable lessons and overcame those challenges, you gained wisdom and a new outlook on life. You became a king or queen in that area. • In life, not everyone wins the final battle. Some lose themselves to cynicism, resentment and hopelessness. • But if you have overcome these challenges, you are a hero or heroine. However insignificant it may seem, yours is a story of light over darkness, hope over despair.

  8. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8csr68LjUM • The stages of the Hero's Journey: Innocence -> Call to Action -> The Journey -> Climax -> King/Queen

  9. Concision exercises • 1. Replace several vague words with more powerful and specific words. • Often, writers use several small and ambiguous words to express a concept, wasting energy expressing ideas better relayed through fewer specific words. As a general rule, more specific words lead to more concise writing..

  10. Examples • Wordy: The politician talked about several of the merits of after-school programs in his speech (14 words) • Concise: The politician touted after-school programs in his speech. (8 words) • Wordy: Suzie believed but could not confirm that Billy had feelings of affection for her. (14 words) • Concise: Suzie assumed that Billy adored her. (6 words)

  11. Wordy: Our website has made available many of the things you can use for making a decision on the best dentist. (20 words) • Concise: Our website presents criteria for determining the best dentist. (9 words) • Wordy: Working as a pupil under someone who develops photos was an experience that really helped me learn a lot. (20 words) • Concise: Working as a photo technician's apprentice was an educational experience. (10 words)

  12. 2. Interrogate every word in a sentence • Check every word to make sure that it is providing something important and unique to a sentence. If words are dead weight, they can be deleted or replaced.

  13. Examples • Wordy: The teacher demonstrated some of the various ways and methods for cutting words from my essay that I had written for class. (22 words) • Concise: The teacher demonstrated methods for cutting words from my essay. (10 words) • Wordy: Eric Clapton and Steve Winwood formed a new band of musicians together in 1969, giving it the ironic name of Blind Faith because early speculation that was spreading everywhere about the band suggested that the new musical group would be good enough to rival the earlier bands that both men had been in, Cream and Traffic, which people had really liked and had been very popular. (66 words)

  14. Concise: Eric Clapton and Steve Winwood formed a new band in 1969, ironically naming it Blind Faith because speculation suggested that the group would rival the musicians’ previous popular bands, Cream and Traffic. (32 words)

  15. Homework • Read p. 83-106. No journal assignment. Work ahead on memoir projects • Bring materials for workday (head phones if you need them)

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