KEEP IN MIND THE ESSAY IS FOR A 19 YEAR OLD MALE STUDENT Narrative essays use st

KEEP IN MIND THE ESSAY IS FOR A 19 YEAR OLD MALE STUDENT
Narrative essays
use storytelling elements such as narrator, character, setting, plot, conflict, concrete details, and sometimes even dialogue to make their points.
look more like a short story than a conventional essay.
use a point of view that is typically first person (I), and the essay usually reveals personal aspects of the narrator’s life and includes personal opinions supported by the essay’s details.
Directions:
Task 1:
Make sure you understand the concepts of literacy and what a literacy narrative typically includes.
Task 2: Choose which ONE literacy context you want to write about:
Academic Literacy
Technological Literacy
Workplace Literacy
Social and/or Cultural Literacy
NOT all four.
Task 3: Use the question set from your chosen literacy context as a guide to get you thinking about a particular time, situation, event.
You are telling a story about how you acquired that literacy. Once upon a time . . .
Include vivid details that involve the senses: sights, smells, sounds, textures, even tastes, depending on your story.
What 2-3 scenes would best help tell your story? See above and the text about drafting a scene.
Task 4: Choose your hypothetical audience. Who are you telling this story to in your mind? Practice working with different audiences. It might be a group of school children, job trainees, people traveling to a new place, who might want to hear and benefit from your story.
Task 5: Write a short narrative (your story) about acquiring your literacy in that context.
Format for the final essay:
MLA format, double-spaced
Under your name in the MLA header, name your audience
Pay attention to polished organization, development, paragraph and sentence structure, and grammar/mechanics.
Reminders/Suggestions:
***Make sure you:
1) write about gaining literacy: competence or knowledge in a specific area. This knowledge is not necessarily the same thing as personal growth, although it can facilitate personal growth. So say, overcoming a fear of heights or the loss of a loved one is not the same thing as gaining literacy.
2) tell it as a story with a point: use scenes, setting, details, characters, etc. Imagine telling it to your chosen audience: kids, job recruits, a prospective employer, a TedTalk audience and having them be able to imagine what you’re telling.
***To make sure you are including everything in your own narrative and not missing details, see the link below to the literacy narrative checklist.