Narrative Openings and Endings For the prompt below, construct one example of each narrative opening. Your openings should be at least 2-3 sentences each.

Prompt: Your class grew plants as a science project. One day you looked at your plant and saw something really strange had grown there.

Dramatic or Surprise
Action
Imagery or Sensory Detail
Dialogue
Title
Character
Mood and Time

Narrative Endings
For the prompt below, construct one example of each narrative ending. Your endings should be at least 2-3 sentences each.

Prompt: Your shoe must have a story to tell. Tell it.

Surprise
Unclear
Emotional
Ironic
New Learning
Reflection
Circular

Practice Narrative Writing:
Now you have so many options to choose from! Select one of your openings or endings that you are particularly fond of and develop it into a full narrative. Recall all the parts of a narrative from lesson 3. Be sure your narrative is rich with description. Look carefully at the rubric below before you start writing and after your narrative is complete. This way you can make changes if you need to and can ensure you have a top-notch narrative when you are done. Your narrative should be between 4 and 6 paragraphs (and 500-800 words) in length.

c) problem and solution

11 d

12 a

13 d

14 b

explanation:

i’m writing a memoir and i’ve been given the great suggestion of placing a ‘sub-narrative’ within some of the chapters – sort of, what was going on with me in the grand scheme of things.

i was wondering how to format this so that it is very obvious we are stepping out the of story.

firstly is a change in font from serif to sans workable? i also use dashes for a scene change. was thinking of using a different scene-changer too.

here’s a (shortened) example:

university – or what’s known as ‘uni’ in australia – were some of the best days of my life. where else do you get to potter around in a great location, have very little responsibility, learn lots of things, do lots of things and walk out four years later with a bonus – a degree!

with my university years i had immersed myself into community of intelligent ambitious people. generally everyone had a confidence about themselves. they knew where they were going in life and weren’t threatened by others.

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next normal paragraph continues here…

(sorry couldn’t show the fonts in this comment field)

too much?

this is the sentence that best shows that fast food restaurants are designed for using unskilled labor.