Unit 3 Narrative Essay

1. Unit 3Narrative Essay

2. Review • A narrative essay is a piece of writing that recreates an experience through time. • Introduction: to engages the reader’s interest. • Attention-getting hook • Thesis statement • Body: to give details about the main event/action. • Details in time order • Details of descriptions • Conclusion: to describe the outcome. • Outcome of the event • What the event showed or taught

3. Writing Model • (p.62) A Scary Secret. • Hook? • Thesis statement? • Events? Descriptions? • Outcome? • Learning point?

4. Language Focus • To arrange the events in time order. • Showing sequence in Narrative Essay • To describe the events in correct time period. • Using the past time clauses in Narrative Essay • To add details to essay. • Asking detail questions about an outline

5. Showing Sequence in Narrative Essay • (p.64) • Time expression • Connectors (time adverb) • Subordinating conjunctions

6. Time adverb • Afterward, after, that, eventually, finally, later, later on, now, then, suddenly, …etc. • These connectors usually appear at the beginning of a sentence and are followed by a comma (except for then).

7. Writing Model • (p.62) Circle the time adverbs.

8. Subordinating conjunctions • As soon as, before, after, when, while,…etc. • A subordinating conjunction joins a subordinate clause to a main clause. • A subordinate clause is usually introduced by a subordinating element such as a subordinating conjunction or relative pronoun. • It does not express a complete thought, so it does not stand alone. It must always be attached to a main clause that completes the meaning. • They are sometimes called dependent clauses because they "depend" on a main clause to give them meaning.

9. Subordinating conjunction—Time http://www.wisc.edu/writing/Handbook/Transitions.html#time

10. Subordinating conjunction—In use • Main clause: express the principal and independent idea. • Dependent clause: express additional information about the main idea (when or where it happened). • Subordinating conjunctions establish the time relationship btw the dependent time clause and the main clause. • The dependent time clause can come before or after the main clause. But we use a comma when the time clause comes before the main clause.

11. Exercises • (p.65) combine each pair of sentences into one complex sentence. Use the subordinating conjunctions in parentheses to clarify time relationships.

12. Describe Events in Correct Time Period • Usually in a narrative essay, the tense used sticks to the past, including the simple past tense and the past continuous. • Past continuous: was/were + V-ing • To talk about activities that were in progress at a specific time in the past. • To describe background actions.

13. Past time clauses • (p.70) • Past time clauses can be used to describe the relationship btw two or more events. • Simultaneous activities • Interrupted activities • Events in sequence

14. Exercises • (p.71) Identify the time relationship btw two clauses in each sentence.

15. Writing Task • Individual work: To revise assignment 2 • Group work: To discuss the writing mechanics of Essay 1.