Personal Narratives

• Does the writer provide an introduction that grabs the reader’s attention?
• The introduction doesn't so much jump out at you and grab your attention, but it does begin a story that seems like it could be interesting to read.
• Does the writer focus on significant events in his or her life rather than trying to narrate his or her entire life’s story?
• Yes, the writer focused on a difficult French class that he took.
• Do the descriptions of the characters or important objects in the memoirs include sensory details that help readers to visualize, hear, smell or feel them?
•  Yes, he detailed not only the other people in the class but also the actions of the teacher.
• Has the writer quoted speech or dialogue so as to reveal some important aspect of a character’s personality?
• Yes, he uses dialogue to show how much the teacher possibly hates the students.  
• Does the writer narrate or describe events in a way that allows readers to connect them to experiences or relationships in their own lives?
• Yes.
• Has the writer explained the significance of the people, events, places, or objects in shaping who he or she has become? Does this explanation make sense in relation to the events, people, places, and things described throughout the memoir?
• Yes, by the end he realized that he could understand what the teacher was saying. Yes.
• Does the writer provide a conclusion that reinforces the point of the story?
• I think that he does.