Be Brave is one of my favorite personal narratives that I’ve done, my story is about how I was nervous to go to camp, but I did it. I chose this story because it was recent, and I overcame leaving home and sleeping and spending my summer somewhere else. I think I’ve gotten better at my writing throughout this unit, and that I grew as a writer since fourth grade.

I planned my story with a story mountain. This is where you use a piece of paper and you draw a mountain shape, and the peak of the mountain is the heart of your story. After I did that, I started drafting. I did so many different drafts of the same story but they were all so different, eventually I chose the one that is my story now. I revised, and edited, but in the end I think it turned out really good. 

I think I did really well with the description and I also think that I wrote my best lead for this story. This is my lead, “The noisy sound of busy cars and tall green pine trees surround me. Squirrels and birds peek out of the woods longing to know where everyone is going. The hot sun shines through the window glass, everyone seems like they have a place to go, and they have to be there. I have somewhere to be and that’s because I chose two years ago on a random summer day to spend my summer at camp. But in two years things change, and people do too, that’s why my lip was about to bleed, I was biting it so hard.” I think I did really well because I added a lot of detail and gave the reader a sense of what was going to happen later in my story. 

Overall I think I did really well with my Personal Narrative for fifth grade. Again, I think I grew throughout the unit even though there were some things I could improve, I think I did really well.