Thursday, May 10, 2007

SECTION 01 ONLY

In class you have been crafting vingnettes (small stories), capturing the essence of a particular memory to order to prepare for the writing of your narrative essay. Please post a BRIEF summary of the narrative including the thesis you wish to address.

24 comments:

Alexandra said...
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Alexandra said...

Summary: The story that I chose to write about was when my grandpa died 4 years ago. When my grandpa died it was a very sad moment for me and my family because he was a very loving man. My grandpa would always eat dessert before dinner and would always take me out for a donut in the morning. My possible thesis would be "the saddest day of my life", but I am not quite sure about that.

Anonymous said...

The story I chose to write about was when we went to Lake Compounce on a seventh grade field trip. I was on Down Time and the seat belt wasn't working but I was too scared to check again to see if it was. When we went up I was so scared that I was going to fall out and I held on for my life. This was under the category of the scariest thing I had ever tried because it was my first time ever going on a straight up and down roller coaster and it is definitely my last. I'm not totally sure what my thesis is yet but a possible one could be something like... when most people come to a near death experience their lives flash before their eyes... I didn't have the same feeling.

Anonymous said...

The narrative essay that I may do is "The Scariest Thing I've Ever Tried Or Done". The reason I may do this is because it is the clearest one that I remember. A overview of this memior is last year and a storm was brewing in the Long Island Sound. The sailing class I was in went out into high waves and bad wind. I was partnered with Ethan Goff, my friends brother, and we had fun that for 9 days and we wanted to have fun the last day too. We raced though three foot waves and then we landed on a small island with everyone else. The boat crashed into each other and left to go home. People started flooding with water and others capsized.

Luke said...

The story that I chose to write about was the "My Most Embarassing Moment." When I was about 7 years old I was on a bus to baseball practice, but I had to go to the bathroom really badly. I wasn't sure what to do, so I asked the bus driver if he could pull over or do something. He told me to pee in one of the empty Gatorade bottles. At first I said no but I really had to go, so I did. A possible thesis is "Through embarassing experiences, I have gained a new incite on how sensitive i should be to other people's comments."

Anonymous said...

Summary: The story that I chose to write about was when my grandpa died 4 years ago. When my grandpa died it was a very sad moment for me and my family because he was a very loving man. My grandpa would always eat dessert before dinner and would always take me out for a donut in the morning. My possible thesis would be "the saddest day of my life", but I am not quite sure about that.

Anonymous said...

The memoire i am thinking of doing is about the day my parents told my brother and i they were getting a divorce. my brother and i had to learn to deal with this which was pretty hard at first.
Thesis: life always goes on, no matter how hard it may seem at the moment.

Anonymous said...

Basically, I am still deciding which topic to use. I might talk about when my dance studio performed THE NUTCRACKER, and I was Clara. The thesis for that story would probably be THE BEST DAY EVER! Also, I might write about the day my guinea pig died. That would be the WORST DAY EVER.

Anonymous said...

I am thinking about writing about when i learned to surf (when i learned to...). it is a very clear and vivid memory for me and surfing eventually taught me a lot of things. A possible thesis is: Sometimes learning simple things can teach you about life's complitcations.

Anonymous said...

Paul Kim
During the 14 years that I have lived, I've felt many different feelings, and have many stories to talk about, but the story I'm going to talk about is "The Best Day of My Life". The best day of my life was on March 4th my birthday, that day my parents decided to get me a dog and that totally shocked me when normally my birthday is finished with a cake and a happy birthday song, the reason why that day was the best day was because I've always wanted a dog, and my parents surprised. Possible thesis: always think that something exciting will happen and that will brighten your day.

Anonymous said...

I have a topic in mind i want to choose, but i will need to talk it over with you, its not really something i want to share online..:D And also i dont really have a possible thesis constructed yet, because im not postive about my topic.

Anonymous said...

The story i want to write about is my scariest moment. My friend kelsey and I decided to go snorkling off the coast of key west florida. It was the 1st time for both of us. We didnt pay attention during the saftey instructions like everyother kid on the boat and when we got in to water it was so beautiful. After a few minutes i spotted a shark i screamed under water so no one could really hear me and i hightailed it back to the boat. It turns out that it was only a baracuda but it was still by far the scariest moment of my life.

Anonymous said...

Thhe story i chose to write about was "The best moment" or something like that. I wrote about when i got my first guitar beacsuse i really got into playing and it was a really expenisive one. Later in life its become a part of me that remindes me of gettting/buying the guitar.

Anonymous said...

The narrative essay that i think i might do is the best day (trip) of my life. This was when i went to florida on a privat jet for the first time ever, which wasnt as great as i thought it would be but it was still fun and you could do whatever u wanted and eat whatever. There also wasnt security or anything. So i went to universal studios in orlando with my dad and sister. At first i thought this was going to be a bad experiance butwe went on a lot of fun rides and had a great time. A possible thesis could be: always hope for the best even when things look bad.

Unknown said...

The story I chose to wirte about was "The scariest Moment of my life" which was when I was two years old and decided to crash a car into a tree. I was two years old me and my family had just gotten home from an event. In the car ride home me and my mom had gotten in a huge argument. After fifteen minutes, of sitting in the car my parents decide what could I do (after all I was only two). But stupidly they had forgotten to take out the keys after all that had transpired. And to shorten up, what ended up happening was I drove the car into a huge tree. A possible thesis could be: Dont fight, beause it will always end badly. But I and not sure if it will work

Anonymous said...

Will Monde
The topic i am thinking about writing about is "the day i will never forget" topic. that day consisted of a friend i made in arizona and we decided to play ding dong ditch. So me and my friend ended up ringing every door bell in the hotel at the same time. We then hid behind a bush and saw security chasing us. We started to run and later we got away. I will never forget this day because i won't forget the peoples faces that we pranked. They were REALLY mad. But me and my friend had fun. A possible thesis could be... "The funnest day of my life"

Anonymous said...

SUMMARY: The narritive essay that i am thinking about writing about is the best day of my life. In this story it is my birthday and my parents do some really amazing things for me. For example, my dad flies me on his company private jet, to a Washington Redskin game. And on top of the game i was able to get field passes so i got to meet sevral of the proffesional players. Then when i got home after the game i was treated to some great birthday cake as well as presents. As you can hopefully see this is why i am choosing The Best Day of my life for my narritive essay.
Thesis: It was october 6th 2006 and it was going to be the best day of my life.

Anonymous said...

The story that i choose to write about was the best day of my life. me my dad and a bunch of other friends. all took a boys weekend and went to chicago. While we were there we went to two cub games. one game we all sat with the bleachers bums, and the second day we sat behind the dugout. benhind the dugot all of the players would hand us balls. it was fun to show all my friends my former home and favorite basball team. hopefully next year we will do the same thing.

Anonymous said...

The one above that is anonymous is mikey i just didn't know who to get the "Mikey said" thing. :)

Anonymous said...

The story that I wrote a story is about my best day ever. My best day was when I got to go to broad way for my birthday. It ended up that they took me on stage. It was my best day ever by far. My thesis is "on the happiest day of my life I got to go on broadway. It might need to be modified a little bit.
Connor Walsh

Anonymous said...

Brittany Hamlin
I am thinking about writing about the worst day of my life. This was my last day of school in my old town and it was a very emotional time. However, i might tie it in with the best day of my life which is really when i made my first friends from wesport. My theiss might be something like: however bad things may look, there are wonderful oppotunities everywhere if u choose to see them

Anonymous said...

Sorry this is late...

The narrative essay I was considering may be about "Something I didn't want to Know." There is a distinct memory about my father and finding out the explicit truth about something that would haunt me for the rest of my life. It was a once in a lifetime moment, and it is still quite fresh in my mind. I think my thesis may be something like "The things you may not want to know may be the only things that get you by." But that's just a basic idea.

Anonymous said...

The narrative that I think I should write is the worst day of my life. I wrote about the day my knees started hurting- which was sad because I couldn’t row for almost 5 months and had to wear a knee brace for most of it. At rowing, my coaches had us do a 4k piece in rowing to determine the top 16 girls to go to a major regatta. I planned for myself to row it in a certain time but was much slower than that because my knees were really bothering me. I didn’t make the boat and I was upset.

Anonymous said...

I think that I want to write my essay on when I moved to america and what it was like to start Bedford when I barely spoke English. I guess a possible thesis could be something that changed my life.