Personal Narrative Project

For your final project for Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, you must write a creative story about something that happened to you based on a quote from the boo ! "he requirements are pretty open! It must be at least one page long if you have a lot of text on the page, however it must be longer if you have a lot of empty space or pictures! #our story must be focused on one moment, event, or day of your life $you want to write a lot about a little, not a little about a lot% It must represent one of the quotes below! #ou must include & of the format options below that represent the way the boo was written! 'long with your story, I need you to explain how you interpreted the quote that you chose as well as which of the & format options you chose below $on a separate paper than your story%

Format options: (ne word)one sentence lines $not the whole thing*% +ords ma e a picture or shape (verlapping words Cross out words Colors ,ictures List -ialogue

This is worth 100 points and is due Monday, March 3rd.

Quote options on the back

Quote options: .(ur situation is the following! +e are standing in front of a closed box which we cannot open/ $012%! .3eing with him made my brain quiet! I didn4t have to invent a thing!/ 56&7 ."he meaning of my thoughts started to float away from me, li e leaves that fall from a tree into a river! I was the tree, the world was the river!/ 5687 .If I4d been someone else in a different world I4d9ve done something different, but I was myself and the world was the world, so I was silent!/ 5017 ."he end of suffering does not justify the suffering, and so there is no end to suffering, what a mess I am, I thought, what a fool, how foolish and narrow, how worthless, how pinched and pathetic, how helpless!/ 5007 .I shoo my tambourine the whole time, because it helped me remember that even though I was going through different neighborhoods, I was still me!/ 5::7 .;o many people enter and leave your life* <undreds of thousands of people* #ou have to eep the door open so they can come in* 3ut it also means you have to let them go*/ 56207 .It4s the tragedy of loving, you can4t love anything more than something you miss!/ 5&1:7 .Feeling pain is still better than not feeling, isn4t it=/ 5&>27 .Everything that4s born has to die, which means our lives are li e s yscrapers! "he smo e rises at different speeds, but they4re all on fire, and we4re all trapped!/ 5&>27

Personal Narrative Rubric

CRITERIA
25 The narrative has a clear and engaging beginning, middle, and end. It is focused on one moment that relates to one of the quotes from the list. 20 The narrative is almost completely focused on a moment with a beginning, middle, and end. 15 The narrative is almost focused on a moment, but is lacking either a beginning, middle, or end. 0-10 The narrative is not focused on a specific moment and lacks the format of beginning, middle, and end. asically, it is not a story.

Story

Description

Use of For !ts

30 The story is focused on describing the one moment, including using ad!ectives and " of the # senses. $escription is used throughout the paper. 20 The story uses at least % of the formats from the novel a few times throughout the story. 15 The story is written creatively and does not read as an essay. The author captures the reader&s interest. 10 The quote chosen is typed on a separate page with an e)planation of what it means, along with stating what the % chosen formats were.

Cre!ti$ity

24 The story is focused on describing one moment, but only uses % of the # senses. $escription is used throughout the paper. 16 The story uses at least % of the formats from the novel, but does not use them enough throughout the story. 12 The story is written creatively, but lacks some details and interest. # The quote chosen is either not typed on a separate page or the e)planation is not clear. The % format choices are also stated.

18 The story lacks good description and only focuses on one of the five senses. $escription is only used in part of the paper. 12 The story only uses one of the formats from the novel.

12 The story completely lacks good description.

8 The story does not use any of the formats from the novel.

" The story lacks some creativity and interest. 4 The quote chosen is not e)plained well as well as missing the % format choices.

# 'reativity was not a priority(lacks a story format. 0 No quote e)planation or e)planation of format choices.

E%p&!n!tion of '(ote

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