Personal Narrative

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Personal Narrative

• 7th Grade Prewriting

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On the back of your assignment sheet, please
answer a few of the following statements

• The best day of my life was...
• The worst day of my life was...
• The time I got in the most trouble was when I...
• The time I felt the most guilt was when I...
• The most scared I've ever been was when...
• The worst thing I've ever done is...
• The best thing I've ever done is...
• I never felt more proud than when I....
• The most embarrassing thing that ever happened to
  me was...
• The hardest decision I've ever made was...
• The best lesson I ever learned was...
• The hardest lesson I had to learn was...
• Ill never forget meeting.
• Ill never forget that one time when

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Homework

• Write the ROUGH DRAFT of your personal narrative
  essay--a story that makes a point about life.
• In choosing the experience that you are going to
  write about, try to think about an experience
  that affected you deeply and ought to be known by
  others.

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ROUGH DRAFT 20 Homework Points

• Must be typed and printed off before you come to
  class (If you do not have it typed, the
  assignment will be considered incomplete).
• Must be in MLA format 1 margins, double spaced,
  Times New Roman, 12 pt. size.
• Must be at least two full pages long