This weekend, plan out the narrative essay you will write on Monday. In you essay you can tell me about a particularly painful or frightening or happy or embarrassing experience. This should be one scene--with a beginning, middle and and end--from the movie of your life that takes place over the space of minutes or hours. Be sure that you include sensory experiences from at least three different senses, and use at least three examples of figurative language (metaphors, similes, hyperbole, personification, understatement, etc.) Review your hand out on narrative essays and try to include as many elements as you can (a hook, dialogue, vivid verbs, figurative language, imagery, rhetorical questions, suspense/humour, and an echo). You may bring a planning sheet into class on Monday.
Also, in preparation for the Provincial Exam, create a personal timeline listing 5-10 important events in your life to date and 5-10 important or influential people in your life (try to make sure these people are of different ages).
