What is a personal narrative?

1. Personal Narrative

3. A Successful Run
I never thought I was a good runner, until the day in gym class when I
won the mile race. The course was marked with colorful flags, and the sight of
the flags seemed to fire me up. When Mrs. Hold, our gym teacher, blew her
whistle, I charged ahead. To my surprise, I was one of the leaders right away.
About halfway around the course, I noticed a few kids grabbing their sides.
Some kids even started walking. I felt tired too, but I kept running. Mrs. Holt
congratulated me when I was the first runner across the finish line. I thanked
her and grinned. Now I think about running all the time. Maybe someday I
will even get the chance to run in the Olympics.

4. Your Personal Narrative
Genre: Fictional Narrative
Topic: A Camping Trip
Your fictional narrative will include:
Write a fictional narrative about a camping trip.
Make your composition interesting to the reader.
Make sure that every sentence you write helps the reader
understand your composition. (Relevant Evidence)
Make sure you state your ideas clearly so they are easy for the
reader to follow.
Include enough details to help the reader clearly understand
what you are saying.
Make sure you have a beginning, middle, and end.
Don’t forget your topic sentence and conclusion.
Check your composition for correct spelling, capitalization,
punctuation, grammar, and sentences.

5. Prewrite
You should always use a graphic organizer to organize your paper before you
begin to write. For this paper we are going to use a gathering grid.
To help you with the gathering grid, ask yourself the following questions:
1. Who was involved in the experience?
2. What did you do?
3. When did it take place?
4. Where did it happen?
5. Why did you do what you did?
Topic Characters Events in the order Sensory details
they happened about what you
saw, felt, and heard
A fictional
camping trip