Autobiographical Narrative
Writing an Autobiographical Narrative
When you write about this experience, remember to develop a plot with a beginning, a middle, and an end to develop a setting and character(s) to use appropriate strategies; for example: dialogue, suspense, narrative action. Use correct grammar, spelling, punctuation, and capitalization
1. Chose an event in your life that has meaning to you and from which you learned a lesson or changed your viewpoint..
2. Write a story map of the event. Identify the setting, characters, and lesson you learned.
3. Create a plot diagram of your event. Include exposition, a list of events in the rising action, climax, and falling action/resolution (put what you learned in the resolution).
4. Write your event into a narrative (story). Minimum 5 paragraphs.
Beginning (exposition) – introduce the incident including the people involved and the setting
Middle (rising action and climax) – describe the incident using descriptive details and dialogue
End (falling action/resolution) – Tell the outcome and importance of the incident / present your feelings about the incident
5. Use details to describe the event
6. Use at least one dialogue with at least three speaker changes.
7. 500 word minimum; 650 word maximum, 5 paragraph minimum
Process
Step 1-Pre Write: Create a Graphic Organizer
Step 2 Draft
Step 3 Revise for content, dialogue and elaboration
Step 4 Edit
Step 5 Publish-Create a Final Draft