TODAY’S OBJECTIVE: I WILL USE NEW VOCABULARY FROM LITERATURE BY TAKING CORNELL NOTES (6F).

The Personal Narrative

MR. MCARDLE, PLEASE TELL US WHAT IT IS

The Personal Narrative

MR. MCARDLE, PLEASE TELL US WHAT IT IS AND PLEASE ALLOW US TO TAKE NOTES ON IT

The Personal Narrative

SET UP YOUR FIRST PAGE OF CORNELL NOTES

1. Take notes in list or outline form on the larger, right side.

2. Go back and create questions to help clarify notes.

3. Summarize notes within 24 hours

4. Go back and highlight and fold over to ask yourself the questions.

Personal Narrative:

Personal Narrative:

An essay which tells a story of the author’s life in chronological order and reveals how the author was changed by this experience.

Essay which tells story of author’s life in chronological order; reveals how author was changed by this experience

Write your notes on the

right side.Notice how I took out the “tiny” words like the & an. This doesn’t change the meaning.

Essay which tells story of author’s life in chronological order; reveals how author was changed by this experience

What is a personal narrative?

Then create

a question

to “cue” yourself!

Organization: Includes:Organization Includes:

Organization: Includes:Organization Includes:Beginning: Opens with a

hook to grab reader’s attention and establishes setting

Write

your

notes

on the

right

side.

Opens with a hook to grab reader’s attention and establishes setting

Does yours look like this?

Now create the

question!

Opens with a hook to grab reader’s attention and establishes setting

Does yours look mostly

like this?Well

done!

What should be in the beginning of a personal narrative?

Organization: Includes:Organization Includes:Beginning: Opens with a hook to

grab reader’s attention

and establishes setting.

Middle: Uses Imagery to describe a problem

as a series of events in order.

Organization: Includes:Organization Includes:

End: Reveals why the event was important to the writer and how it has changed

his/her life

Characteristics of Narrative

Characteristics of NarrativeNarratives…• Make a point

Characteristics of NarrativeNarratives…• Make a point• Convey action and detail

Characteristics of NarrativeNarratives…• Make a point• Convey action and detail• Present a conflict and create

tension

Characteristics of NarrativeNarratives…• Make a point• Convey action and detail• Present a conflict and create

tension• Sequence events in order

Characteristics of NarrativeNarratives…• Make a point• Convey action and detail• Present a conflict and create

tension• Sequence events in order• Are told from a particular point

of view

Cornell Notes Summarize

notes

Go back and highlight and fold over to ask yourself the questions.