Narrative Writing Lesson plans and other teaching resources Action Chains Students learn to elaborate on an event in a narrative by expanding their sentences into action chains. Expanding single actions into an action chain provides the reader with a more detailed picture of an event in a narrative. This lesson is designed for grades 3-5. Active Beginnings This 3-page printable handout focuses on crafting strong leads. It is designed for elementary students and requires Adobe Reader or compatible
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Professor ENC 1101 16 September 2014 This happen to me a month ago when my boss called me for a meeting in his office‚ to talk just with my in private. The first thought in my mind was “I’m fired” but I did not know why or what was the reason for that decision. While my boss entered the office‚ my head was full of many thoughts about why me‚ and how will I get other job like this. In the meantime‚ my boss asked me about my family with a big smile; this is was so weird for me‚ assuming that the meeting
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year is the most important of my high school career‚ so far it’s been full of high and low points. Starting in the summer getting dumped by your best friend; well I thought was not a good starting off point. I felt so alone and upset and never thought I would enjoy the summer break without him. Knowing I had been very dependent on him for a long time‚ made me weak. Who would have thought a high school relationship wouldn’t last; I didn’t. Middle of summer I started my yearly job as a camp counselor
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extremely barren for my eyes. The blue angry waves of the sea made me feel so anxious to paddle my daddy’s canoe to collect sea urchins and sea cucumbers‚ that I could sell to earn a little bit of money to feed my firstborn three months old baby. I was employed as a teacher while placing my baby into preschool since there was no Daycare on the island. I had committed to an extra task like waking up in the early hours to fry pancakes to sell in the school in order for me to support my daughter and family
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What if everything you knew and were used to‚ such as friends‚ family and way of life‚ suddenly changed? This happened to me when my family moved to Puerto Rico for the first time. All the things I was used to in my hometown of Boston‚ Massachusetts‚ all the people I knew suddenly changed overnight. At first I didn’t think it was going to be that different. But I soon found out that there were so many differences‚ big and small. One of the biggest differences was the way of life in general. The
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Keilyn Nguyen HEART SAYS. “You choose us or you’ll lose us‚” said my best friend – Clove. I remember it was in December of 2010. I was in grade 9 – Grad of Junior High School. My best friends and I created a group that was really naughty and popular. Sometimes we made our teachers mad. We usually helped each other in many tests and quizzes which we called that action teamwork‚ but cheating was what teachers and parents considered of. In spite of the naughtiness and popularity we had‚ we were
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My love for writing is similar to my love of swimming. I put all my love and sweat into writing as well as into swimming back and forth down the lanes in the pool. Some days‚ I feel like a fish swishing through the water‚ while other days I feel like a dense blob that is about to drown. However‚ no matter how productive my swim or writing is‚ when I get out of the pool‚ I am physically at the same place as I started and I feel that I have not made much progress. However‚ once I look back at my work
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It was a dark morning‚ so quiet you can hear pin drop‚ it was the first day of summer school. After leaving my house I had soon reached my school‚ as I stepped out of my dad’s car and see huge of pile of students outside the school‚ my dark silent morning wasn’t silent no more‚ due to loud chatter of the students. It was just another normal school day for me or it was until I went to my class and saw a “sexy” girl that made me want to come to school every day despite the fact I had to wake up early
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Stuffed Crab My stuffed crab was once fluffy and bright red. It’s now flattened and faded – something that 10+ years of being wedged between the dashboard and windshield of a car will do. It travels with me wherever my car goes and reminds me of one of the first walks on the beach I took with my husband 15 or so years ago when we were first dating. The crab itself isn’t anything spectacular as stuffed animals go‚ but the story behind him is a pretty good one. The tide was going out at the bay and
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In the middle of July of 2003 my grandmother‚ Josephine‚ suffered from a stroke causing the loss of movement on her left side. No one really knows what caused her to have a stroke‚ but it’s narrowed down to two events. During that summer my grandmother and I were visiting a nursing home. She is an ordained minister and was going to deliver a message to the residents. On the way in she tripped over the doormat and fell on her left side. In April of the same year‚ my uncle Eugene‚ her eldest son
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