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Structuring the Personal Narrative — Homework
Draft the opening and closing lines of your personal narrative before the full draft next week.
- 1.Rewrite this flat opening as an in medias res opening: "I want to tell you about the worst day of eighth grade."
- 2.Name one moment from your life worth a full paragraph of sensory detail, and one hour of that day worth a single summary sentence.
- 3.Draft an opening line for your personal narrative that starts in the middle of action or a vivid image.
- 4.Draft a closing line that echoes or transforms the opening image.
- 5.Explain in one sentence why a personal narrative covering a whole year often feels weaker than one covering a single afternoon.
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