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Fighting For a Four. The winning strategy for writing an excellent personal narrative By P A ndega. Winning Strategy. Draw a quick Idea Web – 2 minutes. Sketch a plan – 5 minutes. Write your draft – 10 minutes Revise, Edit, Publish – 20 minutes. Idea Web. Rainy October day.
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Fighting For a Four The winning strategy for writing an excellent personal narrative By P Andega
Winning Strategy • Draw a quick Idea Web – 2 minutes. • Sketch a plan – 5 minutes. • Write your draft – 10 minutes • Revise, Edit, Publish – 20 minutes
Idea Web Rainy October day Great Wolf Lodge Family and friends An exciting day in my life swimming Feeling s Sleep over Water slide
Story Introduction Entertaining Beginning Mr. Write Man
Introduction Where When Who Let me wow you!!!!!
Wow the ladies With a Winning Beginning • Grab your readers and draw them into your story • Action • Dialogue between two people • Sound Effect - Onomatopoeia • Describe the scenery • Thoughts – Internal dialogue • Simile / Metaphor
Juicy Jots for beginnings • This day was no ordinary day . It was an extraordinarily beautiful summer day. The warm wind was whipping at my face as I cruised along in my cousin’s new convertible. My entire family and I were on our way to the Great Wolf Lodge. Excitement made my stomach churn like the wheels of a steam engine.
Juicy Jots for beginnings • Beep! Beep! Beep! That was the annoying sound of my alarm clock going off at 5 am in the morning. I wearily hit the snooze button and rolled over to get some more sleep. Then suddenly, I shot out of bed like a bolt of lightning. “Wake up!” I yelled. “No time for sleeping. It’s my birthday and we are going to celebrate at my favorite place – The Main Event!”
Juicy Jots for Beautiful Beginnings • “Wake up! wake up ! I yelled at my brother. “Why?” He sleepily mumbled. “We are going fishing.” I replied as I hurriedly jumped into my clothes. I got ready so fast the wind ran out of breath trying to catch up with me. Marcus was still in bed when I left. Soon I could smell the fresh air of Tawakeny Lake.
Body of Story • Show don’t tell • Three paragraphs in the body • Each paragraph should show not just tell • What did you do? • Let me show you!!!
Main Event Your Main Event should sparkle. Get to the main event quickly and elaborate by exploding the moment. Make an ordinary event such as baking a cake, or a roller coaster ride sound like an amazing experience Explode the Moment
Take your readers along with you on a roller coaster ride . Let them feel, hear and see what you did
Spelling and Sentence Structure Good Luck!!