Narrative Planner

Part 1: Brainstorming
Directions: Use complete sentences to answer all the questions to help you plan your narrative
based on a conflict you have experienced.

Make a Connection
1. What conflict have you faced in your own life? This will be the basis of
your narrative.

My conflict is when I went to a new school

Characterization:
1. Who is the protagonist?
Christian Hernandez (ME)

2. What does the protagonist look like?

A weird, shy looking kid who does not know what he is going to do.

3. What is the protagonist’s age and what other factual information is

important (where he/she lives, goes to school, hobbies, etc.)?

12-year-old, rides motorcycles and is a student.

4. How would you describe the protagonist’s personality and attitude?

Good kid, great personality but not really good with making new friends.

5. Who is the antagonist?

New people ( It isn’t a real antagonist but I didn’t feel liked I belonged there)

6. What does the antagonist look like?

A bunch of kids that now they are my best friends

 7. What is the antagonist’s age and what other factual information is
important (where he/she lives, goes to school, hobbies, etc.)?

They are all 12

8. How would you describe the antagonist’s personality and attitude?

They are good people just they did not know me

Conflict
1. What conflict does your protagonist face?
New kid trying to make friends

1. Who or what causes the conflict?

His parents that decided he needed to change schools
2. Who is involved in the conflict?
New kids and Christian (ME)
3. How will the protagonist respond to the conflict?
He approached them and tried to bond with them.
4. What is the outcome of the protagonist’s response to the conflict?
He made new friends really fast because they were all good people

Plot
1. How will you introduce the characters, setting, and conflict in the
exposition?

Well they all started to have fun together and they got along well.

2. What events will happen in the rising action to help develop the conflict?
They go through the school year together.
1. What will the climax (turning point) be for the protagonist? Think about
the decision the protagonist will have to make as a result of the conflict.
His parents said that they didn’t like his school, so they were about to change him again to
another new school.
1. What events will happen in the falling action?
He talks to his parents and tells them he wants to stay. So his parents agreed and he
stayed.
1. How will the conflict be solved in the resolution?
So he stays and everything is good.
Point of View
1. What point of view will you use to tell the story? Think about who can best
tell the story—a narrator who is inside the story (first person) or a narrator
who is outside the story but knows the thoughts and feelings of the
characters (third person omniscient).
It could be a first-person narrator or narrator outside, but I think is better for the first-
person narrator.

1. How will your selected point of view influence what readers know about
the characters and the conflict in your narrative?
They know how he is feeling now and how he felt after, from a shy kid with no friends
to a happy with friends.

Part 2: Exposition
Directions: Use the answers from Part 1: Brainstorming to write your exposition. This should
introduce the main characters, the conflict, and the setting. Be sure to include descriptive
details.

My exposition is about when I was younger and I had to transfer or change schools and I didn’t
want to but I had because my parents wanted, so I thought I have to make new friends its going
to be a new beginning I was mad, but when I got to the school and got along with the new
people they were really good people so we got along and since then we been friends.