Personal Narrative Story (PLAGIARISM FREE)

Lesson Two

1. Dialogue is conversation in text

2. Pick a scenario that you’re going to write about

3. Think of a conversation that happened during that experience.

Dialogue

1. Explain that good narratives include dialogue between characters, but there are grammatical rules that need to be followed such as capitalizations, punctuating correctly, new paragraphs, and synonyms for who said what and clarification on who's talking.

2. Show the example of the various types of dialogue and walk through with the students where and when they need capitalizations, how to punctuate correctly, when the quotation marks should be placed, and clarification on who is speaking.

3. Allow them time to write up one or several of the conversations from their personal narrative. Tell them to follow the rules of dialogue by having quotation marks around what people say, capitalizing the beginning of quotation mark, punctuating accordingly, and making sure that the reader knows who is speaking.

4. Pair share: Have them get with their partner and share their dialogue with them. Tell the reader to check for the rules of dialogue. If the writer didn't have correct grammatical rules then, they need to fix them. Students will turn in their dialogue for checking.

5. Students share their examples and we can fix them together. (Optional: use an Elmo document camera.)

Relevant background information

1. Go back to the example of a personal narrative shown in Lesson 1. Ask them what information they needed to know about this person's life, so that they could relate with the story.

Examples: Need to know about the main character's extreme love for the swing set to the point of violence, need to know that the character she attacks is her sister, and need to know possibly what the weather is like for this story.

2. Underneath or on the back of their dialogue paper tell them to list important background information that is essential and relevant to their story. We don't need to know everything. The story is only supposed to be a specific moment in their lives. The event that happened should not last more than one minute of their life, which forces students to be very specific and detailed especially if the length of the piece needs to be several pages (see rules for personal narrative).

3. Pair share: Have students share their background information with their neighbor remembering to listen for relevant information to their story.

Example essential background information

· Love of Sesame Street swing set

· Older, mean sister

· A child that bites

· Summer Day

1. Check dialogue for quotation marks, capitalization, punctuation, and knowledge of the speaker.

2. Check background information for relevancy.

Reading Literature

Have your students determine the theme of a text and decide what the theme is of their personal narrative. Have them think about filling in the blank

All you need is____________.

Tell students to decide what lesson they learned from their experience or the theme of their personal narrative.