Writing Narrative Text

Introduction

This WebQuest is designed for high school students grade 10th to understand the correct concept of writing narrative text.

Task

Read the materials about narrative text
Choose one topic of folklore for your further analysis :

Folktale
Personal experience
Fables
Fairy stories

Write a narrative text with the topic that you choose at least 500-700 words which contain of title, abstract, orientation, complication, resolution, and coda (optional).

Present your narrative text in a video orally

Process

Step 1 : What is narrative text?

Narrative text is a piece of text which tells a story and entertains the reader or listener. On the other words, narrative is created by someone for telling the story such as folk tale, animal fairy tales (fable), and myth. The purpose of this text is to amuse or to entertain the readers and the listeners. Narrative text also have the generic structure same as the others kinds of text.

To understand more about what is narrative text you can check a video explanation here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bq9z307KcP4

step 2 : How to write narrative text?

In writing the narrative text, there is four main components of genre structure such as abstract, orientation, complication, and resolution. Abstract, it talks about thematic predictions in the early story that can provide insight into what the text will be about. Orientation, it contains the introduction of the characters involved in an event in the story. Not only talk about the characters but also the scene, and time of the story. Complication, it consists of paragraph that describes the beginning of events. Resolution, it shows how complication or problem is solved. To give you an idea of concise in how to write a narrative text structure , go to these video explanation here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GRTvXR0tCA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzkUu_A_Hlk

You can go to this website for another options:

file:///C:/Users/MYLAPTOP/Downloads/387-Article%20Text-621-1-10-20120415.pdf

Step 3 : Making a process of writing

There are 4 main components to making a process of good writing. First, you are going to write the pre-writing. In this first component is a way to get the ideas, choose a topic, and then collecting the ideas to explain the topic. Organizing your ideas into several genre structure in the form of outline which contain of abstract (optional), orientation, evaluation (optional) , complication ,and resolution. You can add coda for the moral value that you can write. The next step is making a rough draft. Rough draft arranged based on the outline in the previous stage. Last step is revising and editing. You can read again your rough draft and editing the words or wrong grammar for the better result.

To can get more understanding about how to making a good of writing you can visit this video :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4vBsLRrGG4

Step 4 : Start producing the narrative text

You can write the narrative text directly on the paper, or type and print it. After your final text is done, you have to present your narrative text in a video orally. You can also use video features application such as VidioShow, FilmoraGo, and another free apps that you can choose from your phone. Try to make it more interesting with a music, pictures, and soon.

Evaluation

For Writing (http://questgarden.com/134/54/3/111103024137/evaluation.htm)


1	2	3	4	Score
Introduction of the Story	No introduction	Misleading introduction	Good introduction but lacking some context (character/ space /time)	Good introduction of background and main characters
Development	No clear development	Repetition, or contradictory facts	Good development but too much extra, irrelevant information	The story has a good evolution and good climax
Ending	No ending	The ending is poor / does not have a conclusion	Good ending, but not convincing, rushed	Complete and convincing ending
Characters	Undeveloped characters, mistakes or confusion between characters	Plain characters with no development	Extra, irrelevant characters that can be omitted but overall good	Complex characters developed throughout the story
Understanding of texts and information provided	Deficient understanding of texts	Good understanding of texts but only in isolation, little or no evidence of having read the material	Good understanding of texts, ability to analyse and use the texts but only an adequate grasp of having read the material	Good understanding of primary and secondary texts/material, ability to develop own ideas, material has been consulted and understood
Design	No design interest	They made an effort to have a design but it it is not convincing	Good design but inappropriate	Good design, attractive for both teacher and students
Progress Work	No group work	Some group work but not all the members contributed	Good overall group work, everyone worked but not cooperatively	Each member of the group has collaborated. Good team work
Clarity and Coherence	Unorganized and Incomprehensible	Understandable but incoherent	Clear but some mistakes of cohesion or coherence	The story is perfectly structured and coherent
Use of audiovisuals	No use of audiovisuals	Too much noise, or problems with understanding the audiovisuals	Good audiovisuals but some are irrelevant, could be skipped	The use of audiovisuals are clear and related with the story
Use of informatics tools	Tools not applied properly	Deficient use of the appropriate tools	Good use of tools but some misleading	Logical use of the tools

For Video (http://questgarden.com/204/97/0/200227102452/evaluation.htm)

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Rubric	Beginning 1	Developing 2	Qualified 3	Exemplary 4	Score
Tone and Volume	Do not use the appropriate tones and volume all of the time	Tones and volume are a distraction to the speech most of time	Tones and volume are appropriate most of the time	Tones and volume are appropriate at all times
Spelling	The final video clip has more than 3 spelling	There are 2-3 spelling errors	There is one spelling error	There are no spelling errors.
Illustrations	Illustrations are not present OR they are not attractive at all	Illustrations in the video relate to the text on the page	Illustrations in the video are somewhat detailed, attractive, and relate to the text on the page	Illustrations in the vidio are detailed, attractive, creative and relate to the text on the page
Oral Presentation	The student has problems with fluency and pronunciation and he/she cannot expose the ideas. No body language or facial expression shown	The student cannot communicate fluently most of the times, Almost no use of body language and facial expressions and ideas are not clear enough	The student communicates fluently, his/her pronunciation doesn’t impede understanding, uses body language and facial expressions to present the ideas	The communicates fluently, his/her pronunciation doesn´t impede understanding, uses body language and facial expressions and presents clear ideas
Use of Audiovisuals	No use of audiovisuals	Too much noise, or problems with understanding the audiovisuals	Good audiovisuals but some are irrelevant, could be skipped	The use of audiovisuals are clear and related with the story

Conclusion

After creating your own story using some references in the WebQuest, your endeavor is rewarded with all the great knowledge you have now gained. The plus advantage is you have practiced your writing and speaking skills at the same time. Now you know more about narrative text perfectly.

Credits

Permissions

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Teacher Page

By Balgis, Cultural Studies Student

This WebQuest is designed for high school students grade 10. This WebQuest will improve writing and speaking skills for students and get familiarized with narrative text. Creativity is also emphasized while the students create the story and represent it in their own style. Students’ knowledge about literature will also get improved during the process.