Narrative Writing

1. Narrative Writing

2. The Best Hamburger of My Life When I was thirteen years old, I had a great surprise at the Grand Hotel in Toronto. My favorite soccer team was visiting from Mexico, so I went to the hotel to get autographs from some of the players. When I got there ……………………

3. What is a narrative composition? • In narrative writing, the writing tells a story, or describes an event,and comments on the event. • You can tell about your experiences, memories, interesting events in your past. • It may be based on fact, on imagination, or on both.

4. Tip: Narrative paragraphs have a clear sequence—a beginning, a middle, and an end

5. Therefore; We mostly use Past Tenses.

6. Thesis statement: • The thesis statement tells the reader what the story will be about. • It may also tell where and when the story took place. • The thesis statement should be interesting for the reader.

7. Possible Hooks: When I was thirteen years old, I had a great surprise at the Grand Hotel in Toronto. When we were in one of our summer holidays, my father and I decided to build a hut in our garden The first time I saw a crocodile in Gaziantep zoo, I was really scared. On a very sunny day, my mother suggested to go to a picnic on the riverside.

8. Supporting Sentence: • The supporting sentences tell the details of the story, including the sequence of events. • They also include sensory details, such as what the author saw, heard, smelled, or tasted. • Supporting sentences may also tell about the writer’s feelings during the events.

9. Using Sensory and Emotional Details • In order to make a narrative paragraph interesting, writers include sensory details and emotional details that help the reader share the experience of the story.

10. Emotional details: Emotional details help the reader understand the writer’s feelings. Go to page 132

11. Emotional details: • Suddenly, my fear vanished, and I felt confident as I looked out at the crowd. • The sight filled me with excitement. • When we began our classes, all our classmates were quiet, nobody talked. It was clear that everybody was so excited.

12. Sensory details: Sensory details give information about how something looks, smells, tastes, feels or what it sounds like.

13. Sensory details: • My teeth were shaking and my legs felt like jelly. • The morning sun warmed my back. • The sky turned from blue to orange to pink. • The birds began to sing as the sky grew lighter.

14. Conclusion: • The conclusion “wraps up” the story. It may include a comment about why the experience was important or how the writer felt after it.

15. Possible Closures: • That was the best holiday I’ve ever had. I will never forget that summer. • We had real fun there with my family when we were in picnic. • That was the most delicious hamburger I ever ate in my life because I was eating it with my idol.

16. Writers of narrative essays use sequence words and expressions to clarify the order of events in a story. The following sequence words are used when events happen in time order. • They often begin sentences. • My father told me “good night” and turned off the lights. A little while later, I heard a strange noise. • My sister and I ran for a long time. Eventually, we got to the hotel and went to our room quickly.

17. Writers often use the following words and expressions to show that two events occurred at the same time. • I made coffee. Meanwhile, my brother tried to distract our mother. • I cut myself with a knife. At that time, my sister began to cry out. Go to page 134