Overview:
The first step to writing your essay is choosing a topic. That’s the purpose of this assignment. You will be asked to come up with 2 different possible topics, to increase the chances of having good options to write on. Know that generally, topics tend to be too broad. Your topic should be narrow in focus, looking at a time frame of a single day, or at most a few days.
Learning Outcomes:
- Identify topics for a Narrative Essay (essay one).
- Recognize the fundamental characteristics of Narrative Essays.
- Recognize the relationship between purpose and audience in writing.
Instructions:
By 11:59pm, Thursday, please read through the Literacy Narrative handout, and then brainstorm out and choose and write up 2 possible topic ideas for your narrative essay. Each idea should be described in 1-3 sentences, telling what the event is you want to write about, what happened, and what it taught you. Even if you feel almost certain you know what you want to write about, I STILL want you to come up with 2 ideas.
I will then give you feedback on the two ideas, to help you decide which one you might want to choose to write about. You do not have to respond to anyone else’s post, but you’re welcome and encouraged to give feedback – the main reason I’m posting this as a discussion is because I want you all to be able to read each other’s topics!
ALSO – BONUS POINT OPPORTUNITY – IF you get this assignment done by 11:59pm Wednesday, 17 January 2024, then you can earn 2 bonus points on the assignment (AND you can get feedback from me much more quickly!)
Please feel free to review the Essay One Narrative Essay Guide before generating your topics.
Overview
THIS is your introduction to your FIRST big essay. For your first essay, you will write a socially, politically, historically, educationally, and/or economically informed literacy narrative essay of 750 words minimum.
As you make choices about diction, tone, and use of source material; consider rhetorical considerations (such as audience and purpose). Your goal is to reflect on a single influential event in your life, investigate it from multiple perspectives, and artfully comment on its significance.
One specific twist for our narrative is that I am asking you to choose a REVELATORY moment. Consider, if you will, the first time Frederick Douglass learned to read, or the day Johnny Cash first heard his mother singing gospel music and joined in with her. These events shaped the lives of these famous people. This is the general idea of what you should write on. But NOT about a famous person’s life – about YOUR own life.
Reflect on your life, in light of the following topics, in order to offer up your explanation and analysis of your own REVELATORY and LIFE CHANGING incident. Your narrative MUST FOCUS ON HOW YOU LEARNED SOMETHING ABOUT WHO YOU WERE and HOW YOU FIT IN WITH THE WORLD, ABOUT HOW THE WORLD WORKED.
Learning Outcomes:
- Recognize the fundamental characteristics of Narrative Essays.
- Recognize the relationship between purpose and audience in writing.
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Identify topics for a Narrative Essay (essay one).