Write a that narrates a specific event from your life that helped you learn something new about yourself or others. Your narrative should focus on a specific event in a narrow timeframe, using vivid description, narration, detail, and dialogue to organize your memories and make the significance of what happened clear to an audience. A is a specific type of essay that uses stories of particular moments to help audiences perceive, understand, and appreciate the value of an idea ( , Ch. 1, p. 19). For this essay, you will write a , a specific type of narrative that focuses on showing how a particular moment from your memory changed how you thought about yourself or others. The learning narrative requires you to organize your memories and decide which details best show an audience how the events from your past affected you. A learning narrative is broader than a literacy narrative: while you can write about how language or education changed your life, you also can write about other things you learned through music, sports, business, or in any other relevant setting. In order to write a strong, focused narrative, you will need to be attentive to the following expectations for the essay: : Please keep in mind that writing in this class is public, and anything you write about yourself may be shared with other students and instructors. Please only write about details that you are comfortable making public within our classroom community. You should know that your teacher is required by the State of Texas to report any suspected incidents of discrimination, harassment, Title IX sexual harassment, and sexual misconduct to the UNT Title IX coordinators. If you have any questions about anything personal that you might want to disclose, email your teacher first or consult with one of the resources listed on this page: These questions help to guide discussion and set up the objectives for this unit. Purchase the answer to view it
