Wednesday 9/10/08 and Thursday 9/11/08

1. Select an incident that you have been involved
in that you want to write about as a Narrative.
The incident can be a happy one, a sad one, one that
taught you a leson, one that you want to forget, or
one that you want to remember. Do not write about anything
that will cause you embarrassment if others read your
paper because others in the class will read it.
2. Do the prewriting on the incident that you have selected
and prepare a simple outline: a list of details that
you want to include.
3. Using the simple outline as a guide, type a draft of your
Narrative, about two pages long. Bring the printed copy
of the draft to class. You may edit on the paper if
you wish. Remember to save what you have written.
SAMPLE THESIS SENTENCE: I will never forget the time when
Grandpa Lopez started a fire in the kitchen.
Examples of narratives in the text include
"Shame" by Dick Gregory on page 645; "The Yellow Ribbon"
by Pete Hamil on page 212; "Bombs Bursting in the Air" by
Beth Johnson on page 715; you can see other narrations
listen on page xiii.
4. Review the notes that we have taken on grammar: what is
a clause, what is a phrase, is a phrase a sentence,
what types of clauses, how you can tell what type of
clause it is,etc.