Introduction to project:
For this project, we started off by writing a narrative about a moment that happened in our life. We could write about anything, it just had to be something important. We wrote this narrative in order to help strengthen our writing skills. To fully develop our skills, we focused on three things that we needed to add to our narratives. The three things that we needed to incorporate were journey, description, and dialogue (JDD.) First, to develop the first skill, we looked at a how a Hero's Journey was structured. Then, we developed the skill to describe by describing many shells in class. Lastly, we worked on our dialogue by looking at examples in class.
Description of the launch:
(Absent)
Baseline Writing:
We wrote a narrative about an important moment event that happened in my life. First, I started off by writing about my dad. I felt like it was too personal, so I started to write about the time I visited Cancún. I didn't really feel passionate about that, so I went back to writing about my dad. After learning many things about a narrative, looking back at this piece, I would change two big things. While reading it, I noticed that I couldn't picture anything in my head. I would be more descriptive and add dialogue to help the reader picture the story in their head.
(I don't have the scan/ writing piece, I lost my write club)
(I don't have the scan/ writing piece, I lost my write club)
How I Won the Right to the Streets of Memphis:
My group put this scene together by gathering the parts with more dialogue. First, we read the scene over and over again in order to understand what was going on. Then we picked who was going to act. After this we rehearsed the things we were going to say.
Looking back, I think we did this to develop one certain skill and to understand how important it is. We needed to see how being descriptive and adding dialogue makes a story so much better. While we talked about this story, I noticed how thanks to the dialogue and the descriptive words, we were all able to picture the story in our heads clearly. This is something we all needed to add to our narratives.
Looking back, I think we did this to develop one certain skill and to understand how important it is. We needed to see how being descriptive and adding dialogue makes a story so much better. While we talked about this story, I noticed how thanks to the dialogue and the descriptive words, we were all able to picture the story in our heads clearly. This is something we all needed to add to our narratives.
Initial Story Ideas:
I wrote about 10 potential story ideas. Looking back on them, most of them all happened when I was very young. Since they happened when I was very young, I knew I wouldn't be able to remember many things, therefore, be descriptive and add dialogue. I knew I needed to do this, so I decided to write about an event that happened recently.
Hero's Journey:
I didn't use a Hero's Journey in my narrative. Maybe I did a little, but not completely, or in the same order. In my opinion, this can be a helpful way to structure a narrative, but not all the time. For example, in some events, you might not be the "hero".
Shell Description:
I applied what I learned from describing shells to my narrative. In my description, I described all the little things I could notice on my shell. I also added a few smilies. In my narrative, I added similes and described everything I could.
Final Draft:
At first, I wrote everything in one small paragraph. I wrote everything with no dialogue, and very little descriptions. Then, after working on the shell descriptions, I noticed how I was telling, not showing. At first, I was only being descriptive in the first paragraph. After getting critique, I added more descriptions on every paragraph. I was able to finally accomplish my goal, which was to show, not tell. After getting another round of critique, I noticed how my narrative wasn't in the same tense. It was all over the place. Some sentences were in past tense, and others were in present tense. I fixed this right away. The last thing I added to my narrative was dialogue. I added dialogue to a lot of parts. I cut out a lot of parts, and added dialogue instead.
Golden Moment:
A golden moment from exhibition was when Ambahr started reading her story. This was a golden moment for me because I realized how we all wrote different types of stories. It was also a golden moment because her story was so descriptive. I really enjoyed listening to it.