Arrangement StrategiesLiteracy Narrative

Chronologicallyfrom beginning to end. The sample student paper on D2L is an example of this type of narration.
Introduce the story.

Describe the setting and the

people.

Tell about what happened.

Say how the story was

resolved.

Say something about the

significance of the story.

Beginning in the Middle.

Start in the middle of the action,
giving enough information so that
the readers know what is happening.

Fill in the details, setting, people, and

specific actions.

Make clear how the situation was

resolved.

Say something about the significance

of the story.

Beginning at the End.

Start at the end of the story. Tell how the story
ends up. Then introduce the subject.

Go back to the beginning of the story. Tell what

happens chronologically and describing the setting
and people.

Conclude by saying something about the storys

significance.

Circularends in the same place it began.

Start the story with a certain setting and people.

Fill in details of how setting and people change

resolving inner and outer conflicts throughout the
time of this inner narrative.

End the story with the same setting and the same
people.

Non-Lineardisjointed narrative or disrupted narrative. The Anthony Winner selection, Reaching Out to Memoir,

that we read and analyzed

is a good example of this type of narration.

Plot the events of your story out of chronological order such that the narrative does not follow the direct causality pattern of the featured events. The
narrative may have parallel but distinctive plot lines, or have another story inside the main plot-line, or use flashbacks extensively. Follow the structure and
recall of human memory (stream of consciousness).