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Instructions Assignment: Narrative Essay Write a short story about a main character who undergoes a change or learns something

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Assignment: Narrative Essay
Write a short story about a main character who undergoes a change or learns something. This can be a true story or it can be fictional, but it must be your own writing. (It cannot be copied from another source.)

YOUR STORY NEEDS TO BE AT LEAST 3-PARAGRAPHS LONG.

(Each paragraph needs to have at least 4 sentences.)

YOUR STORY MUST INCLUDE

A clear setting – the time and place of the story
A plot – series of events that builds to a dramatic climax
A narrator to tell the story
Effective descriptions using sensory details
Dialogue to develop the characters. (For help see below.)
Error-free grammar, including use of consistent verb tense
PUNCTUATING DIALOGUE

Use quotation marks before and after a character's exact words. Place a period inside closing quotation marks.
"Peter and Esteban are joining us."

Use a comma to set off the speaker's tag (he said) from the beginning of a quotation. Place the comma inside closing quotation marks when the speaker's tag follows the quotation.
Harry said, "Come on, Ray. It'll be fun."

"Let's go," Gilda said.

Place a question mark or an exclamation point inside the quotation marks when it is part of the quotation.
"When will we be back?" Ray asked.

"Hooray!" said Debbi.

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