7th Grade Personal Narrative
Prompt:
Write a personal narrative essay about an experience you had in the natural world (outdoors) that is meaningful to you. **Closing activity for "Collection 3: Nature at Work" unit of study**
Guidelines:
Write a personal narrative essay about an experience you had in the natural world (outdoors) that is meaningful to you. **Closing activity for "Collection 3: Nature at Work" unit of study**
Guidelines:
- 3 paragraph minimum (your grade will reflect the amount of effort you put into this assignment)
- Opening paragraph
- sets the scene: where you are, why you're there, when it was, who you're with...
- uses "I" statements in first-person
- explains how you were feeling
- 5 sentences minumum
- descriptive
- Body paragraph(s)
- Events occur in order
- Each event includes
- details about that specific part of the experience
- uses sensory language to paint a vivid picture of the moment to your reader
- makes the reader feel everything you were feeling
- has an "excessive or annoying" amount of detail for everything
- bury me in details!!! make me feel all the feels
- Conclusion paragraph
- Shortest paragraph
- says how you changed from the beginning of the experience to the end
- includes your reflection about the experience or the lesson you learned as a result of the experience
Begin by clearly establishing the
situation...
“It was the coldest morning of the year so far, but the sky was clear and sun was shining when I stepped outside.”
“It was the coldest morning of the year so far, but the sky was clear and sun was shining when I stepped outside.”
Use first-person point of view...
“I was 18, and it was my first college spring break. Of course I’d chosen skiing in Montana!”
“I was 18, and it was my first college spring break. Of course I’d chosen skiing in Montana!”
Write what you hear, see, smell, taste,
and feel...
“The air froze in my nose and lungs as I inhaled deeply of the clean mountain scents. It smelled like pine and wood smoke. I could almost taste it, it was so noticeable. Because it was so cold and clear I felt like I could see for miles, like the world was flat after all.”
“The air froze in my nose and lungs as I inhaled deeply of the clean mountain scents. It smelled like pine and wood smoke. I could almost taste it, it was so noticeable. Because it was so cold and clear I felt like I could see for miles, like the world was flat after all.”
Elaborate on your ideas, including
descriptive details
Notes previously taken in your IAN and part of the brainstorming process: (included on textbook pages 175-177)
Consider how the natural setting is
important to you. Is it important now or in the past?
Determine whether you have a story to
tell about yourself in that setting.
Identify the feelings you have about the
setting.
Think about how the experience in the
setting changed your feelings or ideas.
Specify the most important idea you want
the reader to know.
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