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Personal Narratives

For the next 30 days, you will be learning about different kinds of sentences. You will also learn how to write a personal narrative. In a personal narrative, the author shares a true and personal experience. We will learn about different words, phrases, and other tools that an author can use to help you ‘see like the writer’.

Art Connection: Symbols used by artist’s to help you experience what they are experiencing.
Science Connection Environments: The Water Cycle, Ecosystems, Biomes of the earth.

Mixed Review – Sentences

all JM and JR JM

• A sentence is a group of words that expresses a complete thought. Capitalize the first word of every sentence. Every sentence begins with a capital letter.
• A sentence fragment does not tell a complete thought.
• A declarative sentence makes a statement and ends with a period.
• An interrogative sentence asks a question and ends with a question mark.
• An imperative sentence either gives a command or makes a request and ends with a period.
• An exclamatory sentence expresses a strong feeling and ends with an exclamation point.
• A compound sentence is made up of two simple sentences joined by a comma and a conjunction such as and, but, or or.
• A complex sentence contains an independent clause and one or more dependent clauses.

all JM and JR JM

• The subject tells who or what. (noun)
• The predicate tells who or what something does or is. (verb)
• The complete subject of a sentence includes all the words that tell whom or what the sentence is about.
• The complete predicateof a sentence includes all the words that tell what the subject does or is.
• The simple subject is the main word or words in the complete subject. (nouns or pronouns)
• The simple predicate is the main word or words in the complete predicate. (verbs, adverbs)
• A compound subject has two or more simple subjects that have the same predicate. you can combine two sentences by using a compound subject.
• A compound predicate has two or more simple predicates that have the same subject. You can combine two sentences by using a compound predicate.
• A run-on sentence joins together two sentences that should be written seperately. Correct a run-on by writing it as two sentences or by writing it as a compound sentence.

Watch these personal narratives about some children who were learning to read:

The Lab School

Ben

Reading a Personal Narrative

WAR STORIES AND SCHOOL-DAY INCIDENTS FOR THE CHILDREN BY B. M. ZETTLER

In this section you will read a personal narrative. You will also learn how to

• identify an implied main idea
• discover a writer’s purpose for writing

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