Topic Selection generating a list Chronological first memory etc Importance in shaping personality Relational favorite sibling etc Emotional funniest most tragic etc Topic selection narrowing choices ID: 799791
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Slide1
Prewriting the Narrative Essay
Slide2Topic Selection: generating a list
Chronological (first memory, etc.)
Importance in shaping personality
Relational (favorite sibling, etc.)
Emotional (funniest, most tragic, etc.)
Slide3Topic selection: narrowing choices
Was a lesson learned?
Are there a plethora of sensory details?
Did it change you as a person?
Did you “go against the crowd”?
(If it doesn’t fit at least one of these criteria, eliminate it)
Slide4So, you’ve selected a topic…
Brainstorming details through sense imagery
Visual
Aural
Tactile
Gustatory
Olfactory
Listing events in chronological order
Listing emotional impressions
Slide5Approaches to Narrative
Chronological
Most common
Straightforward structure
Thematic
Prioritizes the “why” instead of the “when”
H
istorical event parallels
Didactic
Usually involves flashbacks/jumps in time
Slide6Examples: Chronological
“Aria: A Memoir of a Bilingual Childhood” by Richard Rodriguez
http://www.jonescollegeprep.org/ourpages/auto/2015/5/12/43083238/Aria.pdf
“How it Feels to be Colored Me” by
Zora
Neal Hurston
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~ma01/grand-jean/hurston/chapters/how.html
“Now We Are Five” by David Sedaris
(Triggering)
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/10/28/now-we-are-five
Slide7Examples: Thematic
“The Crack-Up” by F. Scott Fitzgerald
http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a4310/the-crack-up/
“In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens”
by Alice Walker
https://
www.uwosh.edu/african_am/aas-100-canon-materials/walker_in_search.pdf
“
The Search for Marvin Gardens”
by John McPhee
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CB4QFjAAahUKEwiU16u6qfnHAhVLdj4KHePHCnE&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.oneida-boces.org%2Fsite%2Fhandlers%2Ffiledownload.ashx%3Fmoduleinstanceid%3D1715%26dataid%3D1906%26FileName%3DThe%2520Search%2520for%2520Marvin%2520Gardens.pdf&usg=AFQjCNHOyXZidYLYNbx6iL4LWEkr-T9HAA
Slide8Examples: Didactic
“Notes
of a Native
Son”
by Richard
Wright
http
://english.duke.edu/uploads/media_items/baldwin-native-son.original.pdf
“A Room of One’s Own” by Virginia Woolf
https
://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/w/woolf/virginia/w91r/
“The Ethics of Living Jim Crow” by Richard Wright
(Triggering)
http://newdeal.feri.org/fwp/fwp03.htm