Write a Literacy Narrative Essay, the topic must relate to how Reading or Writing has impacted you.
Directions for Unit 2 Writing Assignment: The Literacy Narrative
2. You must limit the time period of the topic you choose. For example, you may choose to write about a time that your 5th grade class had to write poetry, and that is when you fell in love with writing; or a time when you were made fun of for reading aloud and stuttering during 3rd grade, which made you start to hate reading. You don’t want to talk about ALL of the grades and ALL of the time you have written poetry, or ALL of the grades and ALL of the times you have been made fun of; this narrative isn’t long enough, and you would end up listing instead of describing.
3. You must include description to help your reader be part of your narrative. You are writing a story, not listing details.
4. You must choose one verb tense and stay in it. Don’t start your story in past tense and then decide to move to present.
5. You can use first person (I, me, my, mine, our, etc.), but Hay away f rom addressing your reader directly with second person (you/
6. Try including some dialogue. This will help your story seem authentic. https,fifirstmanuscript.comiformat-dialogueflffistexffiHow%20To%20Format%20Dialogue%201%20Enclose%20the%20spoken,goes%20inside%20the%2(
7. Your literacy narrative MUST be at least 2 full pages (that A down to the 1″ margin) and no more than 3.
