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Narrative Essay Revision Checklist
Focus
Development
15. Use available resources as you edit your narrative and prepare it for publication.
ACTIVITY 4
Independent Writing
WRITING PROMPT: Write a personal narrative on an incident of your choice that has a clear focus and which communicates the impact the experience had on you. Consider an experience that is important to you and that you believe would benefit other sixth graders (other than the topic chosen for Activity 2 and Activity 3). Use the Learning Targets and the writer’s checklist to guide your writing. Also, look over the scoring guide to see what the expectations for the assignment are. Use personification at least twice, and underline or highlight to show where you did. Your essay should meet the requirements listed in the learning targets for narrative essays.
Use the process, examples, goals, and revision strategies from your previous activities to accomplish your task. You might also revisit the graphic organizers you have used previously to help you plan and revise your writing.
• Are the setting and context made clear in the beginning?
• Does the story stay focused on a specific event or sequence
of events?
• Does the experience have clear significance to the narrator?
• Does the writer use a variety of techniques— characterization, personification, dialogue, sensory details, etc.—to create vivid descriptions in the story?
• Are any details included that are unnecessary or distracting? • Does the writer clearly express his or her feelings about the
events that are occurring?
• Do paragraph breaks and a variety of transitions effectively signal shifts and connect events?
• Does the pacing of the story keep the reader engaged?
• Does the ending follow logically from the events of the story? • Is it clear why the experience is importance to the writer?
Sequence
Conclusion
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