Learning Goals:
~Write your best personal narrative, or personal story, using memory of a person or place.
~Study the strategies for generating personal narratives.
Writing Workshop Activities:
Techniques for Writing Memorable Leads
Narrative Challenge
Think of a few different leads you can try in your own writing. If you first start with dialogue, then you might want to begin with a flashback, or a question.
Prompts for Leads
Homework:
~Study the strategies for generating personal narratives.
Writing Workshop Activities:
Techniques for Writing Memorable Leads
- Writers might include the smallest details of the moment, the ones that ring true for the narrator.
- Writers might include inner thinking to hit at what the story is really about.
- Writers might include the precise actions of the characters, helping readers to see how one action leads to another.
- Writers might include the exact words the characters are speaking, in dialogue
Narrative Challenge
Think of a few different leads you can try in your own writing. If you first start with dialogue, then you might want to begin with a flashback, or a question.
Prompts for Leads
Homework:
-Write 2 different types of leads. Each must be 5 sentences long.
Aligned CCS Standards: W.6.3, W.6.4, W.6.5, W.6.10, RL.6.3, RL. 6.6, SL.6.1, SL.6.6, L.6.1, L.6.2, L.6.3. L.6.6
Aligned CCS Standards: W.6.3, W.6.4, W.6.5, W.6.10, RL.6.3, RL. 6.6, SL.6.1, SL.6.6, L.6.1, L.6.2, L.6.3. L.6.6
