In this lesson, students learn to use a variety of structural techniques in their narratives to create a coherent whole. Incorporating structural techniques after writing their initial narrative drafts allows students to freely record their ideas and then examine how their whole narrative works structurally, making changes as desired. This process may involve re-ordering paragraphs or adding key structural techniques (e.g., flashbacks or foreshadowing) to their narratives. Students begin this lesson by defining various structural techniques used in narrative writing. Students then examine paragraphs from the two narrative models in Lessons 1 and 2 and identify how the use of structural techniques contributes to the creation of a coherent whole. Finally, students experiment with the different structural techniques they identified to revise and improve the sequence of events in their narratives, creating a more coherent whole.
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