Narrative Lessons

Imagine being a character in a story. Are you worried that your story’s narrator may inaccurately describe you? What if they reveal something you wanted to be kept secret? Do narrators have too much power!?

We tell students to ‘show, not tell’ — but that advice is useless until they experience the difference. This lesson makes it click.

We open our unit on narrative writing with a big idea: “structure increases creativity.” I show how this is true by bringing in examples from across all disciplines.