Graphic Organizer for Essay #1: Your Story.
(Your narrative might be 6-8 paragraphs, 3-5 pages)
Introduction: Begin at the beginning of your story, setting up the people, place, time, place your story takes place. This might take 1-2 paragraph(s). |
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Continue on with your story, providing plenty of specifics. Break paragraphs when there is a shift in ideas or when your paragraph starts to go over 3/4 of a page. |
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Keep providing signposts for your reader so they can easily move along in your story with words and phrases such as: then, later, after three months, finally, after that, ultimately. |
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You can include a dialogue between 2 people in your story or what one person said. You can include what you were thinking, interiority, in italics, like Neftali Cuello does in her story. |
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You also want to integrate quotes from our readings that connect—directly or indirectly—with your story to enhance and validate your message. |
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You also want to integrate quotes from our readings that connect—directly or indirectly—with your story to enhance and validate your message. |
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Conclusion: It might be one or two paragraphs, and this is where the overall analysis/reflection/commentary is. The what you learned. Make sure to answer all those question on the Essay Prompt for this. Essay #1 (need to add link to assignment). |
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