Using Narrative Arc To Finish Your Draft: October 25, 2018

Focus: What is a narrative arc, and how can you use it to bring meaning to your writing?

1. Warming up with negotiating a final due date and offering you a draft of the rubric

2. Returning to narrative arc and how to use it to develop your essay

• Shaping your memoir using the narrative arc; figuring out which scenes still need to be written
• Try to identify your turning point first; the rest of the arc will fall into place.
• Remember: If your memoir has no turning point, then it has no point.

3. Finishing the draft of your memoir to give it a narrative arc

• Do you need to develop your exposition (who, what, when, where, why)?

• Do you need to develop your rising action (building conflicts / heightening tension)?

• Do you need a turning point in which you experience a shift in your thinking? Do you need to slow down on your turning point?

• Do you need more falling action and resolution in which you come to understand something better or differently?

HW:
1. For FRIDAY: Complete rough draft of memoir due (30 points in Attempt and Completion).

2. Final draft of memoir is due in www.turnitin.com between Nov 2 and Nov 6 (4:00 pm). I will grade them in the order in which they are submitted.