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Personal Narrative Narrative Writing
EmbEddEd AssEssmENt
Record notes from your discussion. Use the graphic organizer to make a plan for your personal narrative.
Incident
Response
Reflection
What is the central action that is the focus of your story?
How did you feel and what did you do as a result of the incident?
What was the significance of the incident? How did you learn or grow from it?
Step 4: Drafting
Use your completed graphic organizer and brainstorming word web to help you as you begin to draft your personal narrative. Before you begin your draft, review the Scoring Guide on page 44–45 so that you understand how your narrative will be assessed.
Remember what you have learned in this unit to make your writing stronger and more interesting. Fill in the following graphic organizer to help you add figurative language and vivid verbs to your draft. Write at least one example of figurative language and a vivid verb that you can add to each part of your narrative.
Figurative Language
(similes, metaphors, personification)
Vivid Verbs
Incident
Response
Reflection
Be sure your draft includes:
• a clear description of the incident (setting, conflict, character), as well as the narrator’s response to the incident
• figurative language such as similes, metaphors, and personification
• vivid verbs
• dialogue to develop the characters and the incident
• correct use of grammar and punctuation
• a reflection at the end of the narrative describing what the narrator learned
Unit 1 • Stories of Change • Part 3: Embedded Assessment 41
Language
Resources
Vivid Verbs
You can replace vague or weak verbs with strong, vivid verbs that bring the action
to life for your readers. Here are some common verbs with ideas for synonyms that are more vivid and precise.
Vivid Verbs
Instead of . . .
Try using . . .
walk
amble, hike, lumber, ramble, saunter, stride, stroll, trudge
speak
bellow, chuckle, hiss, holler, laugh, mumble, scream, shout,
sigh, warn, whimper, whisper
do
achieve, complete, compose, construct, create, perform, produce
see
detect, discern, distinguish, examine, notice, observe, perceive, witness, glimpse, spy
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