Personal Narrative Workshop by Josie Schrag

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Setting: Chris Olivia Kyndal

2024-09-24 18:14:59 UTC

How does the setting change throughout the personal narrative? Create a list of each place the character goes.

Setting:

grandmas car

General store

squad car

jail

parents car

Significance: Braylon, Cora, Kelly, Annora

2024-09-24 18:15:34 UTC

What is the significance of the event?

The narrator learned that the people you love/trust the most can also be the people that cause you the most fear/worry.

How does the writer show the significance of the event?

The internal thoughts in the text describe how she feels and the importance of this incident to her.

Group #4 Dialogue - Grace, Kasen, Katie, Jarissa

2024-09-24 18:15:46 UTC

How many tags did the author use? -

- one tagline

List the different taglines the author used. -

- " A few seconds later my sister appeared and asked,"

How successful were the taglines? could they have been better? If so how so?

- The one tagline was successful but the text needed more, because the other times it just cut to spoken parts.

Where might dialogue be added?

- The first three paragraphs.

Descriptive Language - Emma-Clair, Aleyah, Jackson, Afrelyn

2024-09-24 18:15:50 UTC

List all of the descriptive words used in the narrative:

Sight: "I took one look", "I took a quick glance"

Hearing: "I could still still distinctly hear"

How does the author's use of descriptive language add to the narrative?

The author doesn't have a lot of descriptive language so we don't really know her senses during the story. It doesn't really put us into the text.

Where is more descriptive language needed? List 2 places:

Touch
Hearing

Group 2: Emotion - Zayin, Chesney, Alexandra, Madi

2024-09-24 18:17:14 UTC

How do the emotions developed/change throughout the personal narrative? Create a list of the writer's emotions:

It starts light hearted and gets serious then gets disappointed due to talking to her mother

Excitement

Remorse
Guilty
Sad
Proud

Where else might the writer tell how he/she/they felt?

at the end with her parents reaction
In the dialogue in tag lines

#5 Plot Elements: Kael, Steven, Jaycie, Jaylin

2024-09-24 18:17:59 UTC

Did the writer relate the events in chronological order?

Yes

Create a list or chart using the five plot elements to break down the personal narrative.

Exposition (background details):
- Shopping 2 days before Christmas.
- Going with her siblings and grandma.
- Finding the Snoopy pin.
Rising Action:
- Deciding to get the pin.
- Stealing the pin.
- Walking out of the store.
Climax:
- Getting confronted by the officer.
- Having the cops called on her.
- Being walked through the mall to the car.
Falling Action:
- Getting to the police station.
- Getting questioned.
- Calling home.
Conclusion:
- Her parents picking her up.

Were there any elements that seemed unnecessary?

No, it seemed like most parts of the story helped give it more character.

#7 Gavin, Sofia, Evelie Conjunctions/Adverb Connectors

2024-09-24 18:21:08 UTC

Where are three places the writer used, or could have used, a conjunction? List the entire sentence and underline the conjunction?

-I had never before stolen anything; but what was done was done.

-That doesn't mean I condone what you did, but I think you've been punished enough already.

-Well, I just caught her shoplifting and I'm afraid I'll have to call the police.

Where are two places the writer used, or could have used, adverb connectors? list them

-Instead

-In the dialogue