It tells a story about a specific event or experience

Includes all the key events of a story Uses descriptive and sensory

information Uses a single point of view

Provides an organizing focus/idea Significant event Significant experience Significant relationship

Get the reader engaged Use sensory details

Engage the five senses: taste, smell, sight, sound, touch

Scenery, season, scents, dialogue, etc Use figurative language

Similes, metaphors, personification, hyperbole, alliteration, etc.

If you’re telling a story it should be in chronological order AKA: Time Order Put the events in the order in which they

occurred

Every detail used refers back to the main focus of the paper

Stay on topic!

If it starts in past tense, it should end in past tense You decide the tense…BUT…then you have

to stick with it!

Helps the reader follow the sequence of action

Possible examples: After a short time

Afterwards As long as As soon as

At last At length At that time At the same time

Before Earlier Of late Immediately

In the meantime

In the past Lately Later

Meanwhile Now Presently Shortly

Since Soon Temporarily Then

Thereupon Until When While

What happens just after the story ends? Does Billy realize the danger he faces? If he does, is it too late, or does he escape? Write a narrative that describe Billy’s and the landlady’s fate.

1. Make a list of three possible ways the story could have ended.

2. For each ending, find at least 3 ways this could have been accomplished

3. Decide which ending you would like to write about