Narratives!

What is a narrative?

Structure or plot:

PUT THESE IN THE CORRECT ORDER, WRITE A SENTENCE BESIDE EACH ONE EXPLAINING WHAT IT IS:• Resolution• Event 1• Orientation• Event 2• Closure

What else is needed in a narrative?

Character descriptions

Setting descriptions Action Dialogue

Orientation

• The first paragraph needs to give the reader information about where it is set and who is involved. WHERE and WHO is involved in this:

• Jackson put his high-velocity suit back in the revolving suit rack, brushed his dark hair out of his face and pushed the button on the door to close it. He sighed and hung up his holographic screwdriver on the tool desk. The repairs to the left engine wing had not gone well. Not only had he dropped, and lost forever, the ships only semi-sonic wrench, but it had damaged the wing even more before it drifted off into space.

Write an orientation: choose one from each column - Character, setting, action!

WHO WHERE

Jarrod – 10 years Castle

Bethany – 12 years Space ship

Matthias – 57 years Jungle

Zyrrg - ?? Years Circus

Gavin – 26 years School

Sooty (cat) – 5 years Downtown city

Show not tell

Describe the peoples faces. Look at the eyes and mouth.Pick one and finish this sentence:His…

Show not tell

• Pick an emotion, describe someone who is feeling that emotion below – SHOW them feeling it, you can not use the emotion.

Write!

• Continue the orientation you started. This time, give the character an emotion, and SHOW not TELL the reader what they are feeling.

Setting Description

Town Bedroom Desert Train

Setting - Google image search a setting of your choice. Insert the picture here, write at least 5 sentences describing it.

Language Features!

• Write down 5 language features – write an example of each:• 1. • 2. • 3. • 4. • 5.

Write 5 different language features about the picture: Simile, personification, metaphor, alliteration, onomatopoeia.

Point of View

• Who is telling the story?• Whose EYES and EARS are we seeing and hearing from?

Task:1. Imagine you are taking this photograph.

Where are you? What can you see from this vantage point?

Compose three sentences- using THIRD PERSON

2. Imagine you are the man in the picture, about to take a photograph. Describe what you can see from your vantage point.

Compose three sentences- using FIRST PERSON

Examples: Standing in the doorway, hands in pockets, he

looked surprisingly relaxed. The storm raged around him but he hardly seemed to notice. A warm orange light spilled from one of the windows.

I watched the helicopter whirl away, buffeted by the storm. My ears rushed with the roar of water. I felt alone and afraid: how would I survive?

What are the differences between the two different viewpoints?

Do their ‘voices’ sound the same or different?

Which viewpoint is most effective for telling this story?

Narrative Viewpoint and Voice

When we read, we “see” images in our mind and “hear” a voice in our heads.

Writers can choose whose “eyes” we see through and whose “voice” we hear telling the story.

So, writers can choose….

• First person narrative or third person narrative

• Past tense or present tense

• Writers can tell a story In the order in which events happen, through flashback to events that happened earlier, from one viewpoint or more than one