Write Narrative Text

 

LESSON OVERVIEW 

Lesson name: Write Narrative Text     

Skill focus: Writing 

Teacher name: Novalia Laily Ramandha 

Organisation/school name: SMA N 1 Tawangsari 

Target students: Senior High School 

Materials used in class: Paper, Stationery

Time: 70 menit 

LESSON OBJECTIVES 

This learning can help students to improve their writing skills. Students are expected to understand how to write narrative text correctly. 

 

LESSON PLAN 

1. The teacher is present in the class and gives a good impression to the students at the   beginning of the lesson, then explains the learning and learning achievements (10 minutes)
2. The teacher gives an explanation to the students about the task to be done, namely making a narrative text, how to make a narrative text and the deadline for submitting assignments (15 minutes)
3. The teacher explains how to check the correctness of the grammatical sentences they use (10 minutes)
4. The teacher gives time to students to do assignments and supervise them (35 minutes - end)

 

 

 NARRATIVE TEXT

 

 

Narrative text is one of 13 types of English text and part of Narration text such as recount text, anecdote text, spoof text, and news items. This text serves to tell the story of the past and for entertainment.

According to the online Big Indonesian Dictionary (KBBI), narrative is "narrative in nature; or explanatory (explaining and so on)”. The definition of narrative according to Abbott (2010: 1) is a story or in general it means telling a story. Narrative text is a story essay that tells non-fiction or fictional stories based on time sequence or is chronological in nature. The chronological nature of narrative text makes it necessary to have an orderly division of time, from beginning to end. 

 

The purpose of narrative text is usually used as a medium of entertainment for readers. Narrative texts are said to be able to provide knowledge about good fiction or non-fiction stories to their readers. Apart from being used as a medium of entertainment, narrative text can also provide readers with experiences of beauty, new knowledge, and important information.

Features of Narrative Text

1. Narrative text uses sentence forms (tenses) that show events or incidents in the past > Past Tense.
2. Adverbs of time which generally appear at the beginning of sentences in narrative text include, such as long time ago, once, one, once upon a time.
3. There are excerpts of dialogue or conversation between characters.
4. The use of adjectives in narrative text to provide a more detailed picture in the form of a noun phrase.
   

Narrative Text Structure

 

There are 4 narrative text structures, namely orientation, complication, resolution, and reorientation which are optional.

1.  Orientation 

    Orientation is the initial part or the first structure of narrative text. In this structure, the story maker or writer will introduce the characters, time, and place where the events in the story take place. In addition, the orientation also usually begins with an opening sentence such as, Long time a go …, Once upon a time …, or One day …, followed by a description of the characters and places in the story.

2.  Complication

    The second structure of this narrative text will explain or describe the problem or conflict in a story. This problem or conflict usually contains the main character and can also represent various problems that occur in real life. In addition, the characters also experience various events that lead to the story's climax or climax. As a result, the main characters will experience complicated problems.

3.  Resolution 

    Resolution or resolution is the third structure or the last part of the narrative text. Resolution itself can be understood as a resolution of a conflict or problem. At the resolution, the characters in the story begin to find solutions to solve various problems from complications.

4.  Re-orientation 

     The last part of the narrative text is optional, it may or may not exist. Reorientation or often also called coda is part of a narrative text story that conveys moral values, suggestions, or lessons in the closing part for the reader that comes from the story.

    Narrative text displays the main character who can face various complicated problems. This makes narrative texts can have more than one complication or more than one complication and resolution.

 

How to Make Narrative Text

 

1.  Imagining it in the brain

2.  Pouring the imagination into the writing structure so that chronological errors do not occur

3.  Use prompts (words conveyed to the actor when he forgets the dialogue), to create a natural effect, so that the story doesn't become too stiff

4.  Focus on spending most of your writing time working through it to completion, don't edit in the middle of writing

5.  When you're done writing, re-read the story and make sure the structure is related to each other, so that it becomes a complete story

6.  Editing to ensure the use of correct spelling and language rules so that readers feel comfortable reading it

7.  Pay attention to storylines to ensure that each character has a unified whole with problems that are not confusing and problem solving that can be understood properly

8.  Ask someone honest to read your story and get suggestions from them to improve your story writing

 

To check sentence structure in narrative text, you can use Grammarly or Google Docs

 

 

 

Good Luck ^ ^