Personal Narrative
Personal Narrative: Write a personal narrative of 500 — 700 words. Your narrative should describe an event or experience that was important to you. Remember that your personal narrative will read like a story with you as the narrator. Use first-person point of view, create a setting, and develop a plot. Write with your conclusion in mind, and include all the details your readers will need to understand the narrative and its ending. Before submitting the assignment, make sure you have included •a beginning, a middle, and an end • dialogue to draw readers into the scene and to give information about actions and characters • precise, vivid language that shows rather than tells • events in chronological order with appropriate transitions • an end that includes your narrative’s point, or meaning it holds for you • unified paragraphs organized around a main idea • specific nouns. verbs, adjectives, and adverbs • a variety of sentence types Remember to submit your Planning and Organizing document and rough draft when you submit your final paper
