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WRITING WORKSHOP
Narrative Nonfiction
Learning Targets
• Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, relevant descriptive details, and well-structured event sequences.
• With some guidance and support from peers and adults, develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach, focusing on how well purpose and audience have been addressed.
• Explain the function of verbals (gerunds, participles, infinitives) in general and their function in particular sentences.
• Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade 8 topics, texts, and issues, building on others’ ideas and expressing your own clearly.
Writing a Nonfiction Narrative
A personal narrative is a type of narrative nonfiction that provides an opportunity to take one of your experiences and share it with an audience. The experience might have been funny or sad, or it might have been an event that taught you a valuable lesson. By establishing a unique point of view and blending events and responses to the events in their narratives, writers bring their stories to life. By including reflection, writers help readers to understand the significance of the experiences they describe. As you begin writing your own nonfiction narrative, it’s important to think about the impact of your experiences, and to share insights and observations about life.
To develop your skills as a nonfiction storyteller, you will work with your teacher and with your classmates to construct two model nonfiction narratives. You will then use these models to construct your own nonfiction narrative.
ACTIVITY 1
Discovering the Elements of Narrative Nonfiction
Before Reading
1. Think about a great story that you’ve heard several times. It might be a family story that gets repeated at get-togethers, or it might be the story of something that happened that you and your friends will never forget. Who tells this story the best? What makes his or her version of the story better than anyone else’s?
LEARNING STRATEGIES: Think-Pair-Share, Brainstorming, Marking the Text, Webbing, Graphic Organizer, Generating Questions, Drafting, Mapping, Rereading, Skimming/Scanning, Adding, Substituting, Self-Editing/Peer Editing, Sharing and Responding, Marking the Draft,
Writer’s Checklist
ACADEMIC VOCABULARY: Reflection refers to serious thought about, or consideration of, an experience. In narrative nonfiction, the writer shares some of those thoughts and feelings with the reader, including what he or she learned from the experience.
Writing Workshop 7
• Narrative Nonfiction 1
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