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PERSONAL NARRATIVE ASSIGNMENT
B.Walters
English 100 pts.
Due date: 11/13/09
**Write a personal narrative telling about a special experience in your
life. Include details that will help your reader understand what the
experience was like. Be sure to explain why it was important to you and the
lesson that you learned.
***Refer to the Student Lesson Summary packet that was given and also to your
Literature textbook, pages 144 – 150.
Resources: Literature
Transitions: pages R32,R33
Narrative Writing: page R36
Grammar for Writing Workbook page 199
how to write them, as well as examples to help you write your own.
Acrostic Poetry: The name of the person, object, place, and so on, is written
vertically down the left hand side of the page. Each letter is capitalized
and
becomes the first letter of the word beginning each line.
Kangaroos
Kangaroos
Around in the
Night,
Grazing
And eating,
Racing
Over paddocks
Or
Sleeping after jumping.
Name
Poems:
1st line – A line about the Person
2nd line – Who feels…..
3rd line – Who needs….
4th line – Who wants….
5th line - Who fears….
6th line - Who would like to….
Michael Jordan is a great basketball player,
Who feels the ball hitting the ring,
Who needs to win the next Grand Final,
Who wants to win every game,
Who fears nothing but his opponents,
Who would like to hold the golden cup in the air.
Clerihew Poems:
1. Four lines long
2. 1st and 2nd lines rhyme with each other
3. 3rd and 4th lines rhyme with each other
4. 1st line names a person; 2nd line ends with something that rhymes
with the name of the person.
5. A clerihew should be funny.
Our art teacher, Mr. Shaw,
Really knows how to draw.
But his awful paintings
Have caused many faintings.
Alliteration Poem
Title (two words or more with same letter)
Line 1 – Repeat letters of three words – describe/define item or person.
Line 2 - Repeat letters of two words – describe personality/quality
Line 3 – Repeat letters from line one – include a name/or noun.
Example:
Monty’s Milkshake
Monty’s melt-in-your-mouth marvels,
Mountains of measurable masterpieces,
Marvelous milkshakes……mmmmmmm
Cinquain
Title
Line 1 – one word (noun or name)
Line 2 – two adjectives describing line 1
Line 3 – three verbs telling what line 1 does
Line 4 – four words telling more about line 1
Line 5 – word that means same as line 1
Example: Frosty
Frosty
White, cold
Sitting, smiling, melting
On the snowy hillside
Snowman
Concrete or Shape Poems: Designing your own shape poem can be simple and fun
but try not to pick anything that would be too difficult. Map out or draw
your shape first and then write the text of your poem into your shape (at
least five lines).
Example #1
Birth of a Triangle
mama and papa and baby make three,
reaching sides of a three-sided tree.
oedipal winds rustle from leaves;
triangular shapes converting
dissimilarity into peeves.
straight lines connect
the corners turned;
mirrored sight
unburned;
buried
am
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