narration and description

Your essay should be double-spaced (NOT 1 spaced) and computer printed. You should have your name, date, and course listed at the upper right hand corner. Please give your paper an interesting TITLE, and don’t underline or put quotation marks around your own title. (3-4 pages)
Submission:
Please submit your paper (and draft) as a link to a google doc. Make sure to make me an editor so I can comment on your paper.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1g7qOvxKgZGI4KIgeYfq_agnwgIF4HcMddVo-UCNxJyk/edit
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Content:
You will be using one of the articles/stories in the Narration and Description Unit as an inspiration or starting point. In your introductory paragraph, first briefly analyze the article and its main point and then describe why a certain passage or idea affected you. Be sure to quote directly from the article.
Then write a transition sentence, making a connection between the quotation and a personal event which has affected you in some way and bears a significance. This transition sentence is your thesis.
Then write about that event in your life, using sensory details, dialogue, and background material. You need to use description to narrate your story. You may continue to refer to the article by quoting or giving examples from it, if you like, but this is not required. The main idea is to think in depth about an event in your life, like Julia Alvarez, Frank McCourt, Malcolm X, Maya Angelou, Amy Tan, Langston Hughes and George Orwell do — to sort out the meaning of that event. What happened to your soul at that point? Or did you only understand the true meaning of the event later? Remember to tell a story.
The neatest conclusion is to connect the meaning of your event to your quotation in the last paragraph. This will tie your essay into a neat package. If that is too difficult, then do at least try to move to the present day, and articulate how you NOW feel about that event.
Notes:
Use present tense when describing an article: McCourt makes the point that . . . or Orwell believes that . . . or Malcolm X argues that . . .
Your thesis for this paper will be the transition sentence: Angelous experience at her graduation has many similarities to my own, in the sense that we both had our expectations shattered.
Use past tense to describe the event in your life: When my father handed me my graduation present I could not believe how large the box was and I was quite excited.
Use chronological order to tell your story.

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