Your personal narrative will focus on a specific experience…

Yоur persоnаl nаrrаtive will fоcus on a specific experience in your life that taught you a lesson. Consider experiences in your life that have led you to avoid certain mistakes or to adopt specific habits, attitudes, or approaches when confronting challenges. You can also write about a life-changing experience and what it taught you. As you brainstorm ideas for this essay, consider times when specific events have happened in your life that have taught you lessons. Your story should be engaging, and it can be serious or humorous.    You also must have learned something from the experience. Just telling a funny story isn’t enough to meet the assignment requirements. Your narrative should focus on an experience that has influenced your character, attitude, family/personal life, career, community involvement, spiritual life, or intellectual life.  Sources: None Length: Five paragraphs *Include one piece of dialogue, properly punctuated. (for example, then my mom said, "Don't touch that oven!") *Remember to include your thesis in the conclusion, stating the lesson you learned from the experience.  !!! You may use a physical copy of your outline, NOT a prewritten essay, but an outline. !!! If you do not CLEARLY SHOW the outline to the camera at the beginning of the essay, yet you appear to be looking at notes, you will be deducted 25 points.