Narrative Writing

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Narrative Writing

• Learning to tell a tale

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JOURNAL
What happens next?
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What is a narrative?

• A story told and the order in which it is told
• May be fiction or non-fiction

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Elements of a Story

• Setting time and place of story.
• Conflict problem in the story.
• Plot what happens in the story that surrounds
  the problem

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Types of Characters

• Protagonist
• Antagonist
• Supporting Characters

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What is Plot Structure?

• Most stories follow a pattern.
• We will study the most common pattern.
• This is a way of identifying parts of a story.

Climax
FallingAction
RisingAction
Plot Structure
Resolution
Exposition
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Exposition

• Events before the plot is set in motion. (How it
  begins)
• Characters
• Setting
• Exposition ends when the conflict begins.
• Example

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Rising Action

• Any important events leading up to the climax.

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Climax

• The turning point in the story.
• The point of crisis and may be the most exciting
  part
• Main character may learn something new
• A change takes place
• Now the conflict can be addressed.

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Falling Action

• Events after the climax.
• Events leading toward the resolution.

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Resolution

• Events after the conflict is resolved.
• Simply How the story ends.

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Tips for Identifying

1. First, identify the climax
2. The climax usually isnt the most exciting part
   of the story.

Things go from bad to good or from good to bad.
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Review
Not every story follows this pattern, but most do.
Climax
FallingAction
RisingAction
Story Structure
Resolution
Exposition
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Bellringer

• Journal Write about what a perfect birthday
  party would be like. Who would be there? What
  would you see? Hear? Taste? Touch?
• Be as descriptive as possible.

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Sensory Details
There was a dog in the alley. 7 words There
was a wet, one-eyed beagle covered in black mud,
smelling like the inside of a sewage drainpipe in
the alley next to the deserted bus station. 27
words
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A thunderstorm

• How does it make you feel?
• Smell like?
• What do the clouds look like? What does the rain
  gathering in the streets look like?
• What does it sound like?
• What does the rain taste like?

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A Rock Concert

• How does it make you feel?
• Smell like?
• What do you see?
• What does it sound like?

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An Abandoned House

• How does it make you feel?
• Smell like?
• What do you see inside?
• What do you hear?

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• Quiz Tuesday/Wednesday on the following
• 6 Traits of Writing- Be able to identify by
  definition or by question asked
• ex
• Identifying Simple Parts of Speech in a sentence-
• Nouns
• Adjectives
• Verbs (also helping verbs)
• Sentences
• Identifying fragments and subjects (remember
  subjects identify who or
• what)
• Plot Structure of a Narrative-Know what
  exposition, rising action, climax, falling
  action, resolution is
• Must be able to rewrite sentences using sensory
  details