Narratives - Caley Savoie

For today, I read a few chapters on Literacy Narratives.  Five stories that included the authors story about their life or a problem that occurred.  I enjoyed most of these stories, realizing that they all relate to most of the people in the world.  All of the readings were good examples of a piece of narrative writing and I think it will help me in writing mine.

At the end of each story there is a set of questions or statements to make you engage and review over what was just read.  Some of the statements were more suggestions on how to write a narrative than anything else.  Each of these giving you ideas and ways to really understand what you need in a narrative, and exactly what parts should be included.  

I enjoyed the first story most of the woman who was trying to take classes to learn her own native language.  This is engaging to read because she was looked as being different from her own race when she couldn't speak their language.  

I also read a chapter on Generating Ideas and Text.  This was a very helpful chapter as I will be writing my own narrative soon.  It gave great ideas for composing your own stories and how to start.  They say that pre-writing is key in starting your narrative.  They gave a few suggestions including; free writing, looping, listing, and clustering.  My favorite two to use are listing and clustering.  With listing you are able to get all of your ideas and write them down.  When I do lists I write down my most favorable to least.  In clustering you can get one main idea and put off other ideas and stories that go along with it.  This makes preparing and writing a lot easier.