02+Performance+Tasks+(GRASPS)

=**Writing the Personal Narrative **Performance Tasks using GRASPS = = =    

**A personal narrative is... ... about one event in your life that was significant.  ** 

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DIRECTIONS   Include details that will convince your audience that this story really happened. Provide some kind of closure for them. ||  ||
 * Goals  || Write a personal narrative. Make it detailed. Make sure you center your story around the climax. It will be challenging to choose ONE important event in your life, but only write about one. ||
 * <span style="font-size: 110%; color: rgb(128, 0, 128);"> **Roles** || As a student you will be writing your story in 1st person point of view. You are the story teller. Write with "I", "Me", and "We." ||  ||
 * <span style="font-size: 110%; color: rgb(128, 0, 128);"> **Audience** || <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The audience will depend on the story. In order to write an interesting story, identify your audience. Ask yourself these questions:
 * <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Who is going to be interested in my story?
 * <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Who might read my story?
 * <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Who might need to know the details of my story if they don't know me?
 * <span style="font-size: 110%; color: rgb(128, 0, 128);"> **Situation** || <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">All of us have many stories in our lives. Choose one event in your life that is important to you. It could be a "Hello", "Goodbye," or "Goal." At times writing about past events can be difficult. Even if your story is about a sad event in your life or one in which you can't remember all the details, choose one that you feel you want to capture in writing so that everyone who reads it can share that important event. ||
 * <span style="font-size: 110%; color: rgb(128, 0, 128);"> **Performance** || You will create a personal narrative in order to explain one important event in your life. You need to develop a climax so that your audience will be sitting on the edge of their seats while reading your story. This will allow the story to have some significance or purpose. ||
 * <span style="font-size: 110%; color: rgb(128, 0, 128);"> **Standards** || When your personal narrative is finished, it should have an introduction, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution. The length of your piece depends on how much you need to explain. The climax should be the most important part. Write the details before and after your climax to give your personal narrative a clear purpose for your audience. Follow the guidelines on the rubric to make all the parts of your story include the details in the way that I have suggested. Make me say, "Wow!" after reading it. ||

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