Lesson Plan:

 What is a Narrative Paragraph

 Components of a Narrative Paragraph
 How to Organize a Narrative Paragraph
 What is a Cohesive and Coherent Paragraph
 Classroom Exercise
Narrative Paragraph
• Tells a story or an event
• A tale of personal life
• An account of natural phenomena
• A story of social events
A Narrative Paragraph should have:
• A central idea (what)
• Setting (where)
• A character or characters (who)
• A plot (how)
Components of A Narrative Paragraph
• Background information (Topic Sentence)
• The story or event (Supporting Sentences)
• Conclusion (Concluding Sentence)
Components of A Narrative Paragraph
• Background information

 A topic sentence
 What is the story all about?
 Who is it about?
 When does it happen?
 Where does it happen?
Components of A Narrative Paragraph
• The Story or Event
 Supporting Sentences
 What happens first
 Main events/activities
 Final events/activities
Components of A Narrative Paragraph
• Conclusion
 Concluding Sentence
 Reference to topic sentence
 A final remark about the story
 A moral lesson of the story
 Paragraph Example:
A Narrative Paragraph
The one day I spent in Morocco, Africa was an experience of a
lifetime. When I finally reached Morocco and got off the bus, there were four
little girls standing shoeless in the hot sun. After I swallowed my tears, I
could not even try to picture this in America as it is not something you often
see in the U.S. Meanwhile my tourist guide instructed me not to give them
money as it encouraged the children to beg; however, I was wearing four
silver bracelets. As I walked over to the girls, their eyes watched my every
move. Then I kneeled down to their level while I gave each girl a bracelet.
They stood there gleaming at me, for they were pleased. I felt completely in
disbelief that this tiny gesture could mean so much. Though this experience
was upsetting, and a huge culture shock, it will stay with me forever.
 Another Example: Narrative Paragraph
A. Background:
• The one day I spent in Morocco, Africa was an experience of a lifetime.
B. The Story or Event:
1. When I finally reached Morocco and got off the bus, there were four little girls
standing shoeless in the hot sun.
2. After I swallowed my tears, I could not even try to picture this in America as it
is not something you often see in the U.S.
3. Meanwhile my tourist guide instructed me not to give them money as it
encouraged the children to beg; however, I was wearing four silver bracelets.
4. As I walked over to the girls, their eyes watched my every move.
5. Then I kneeled down to their level while I gave each girl a bracelet.
6. They stood there gleaming at me, for they were pleased.
C. Conclusion:
• I felt completely in disbelief that this tiny gesture could mean so much.
• Though this experience was upsetting, and a huge culture shock, it will stay
with me forever.
Coherent & Cohesive Paragraph
Coherence (the idea level):
• Semantic/rhetorical elements of writing
• developing claims and arguments
• supporting arguments
• connecting ideas
• synthesizing ideas
• organizing ideas
• clarifying ideas
Example of a Coherent Paragraph
There are a lot of good departments at UIN Syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta, but the
best one, in my view, is the English Education Department of the Faculty of
Educational Sciences for several reasons. First, almost all lessons at this
department use English as the language of instruction. Second, this department
has highly qualified lecturers who graduated from internationally reputable
universities in the United States of America, Australia, England, Germany, etc.
Finally, lecturers and students at this department always promote interactive
models of teaching and learning that are inspiring, motivating, and engaging, so
they always enjoy the teaching and learning atmosphere in the classroom. In
short, I love the English Education Department, and I am proud to be part of this
awesome department.
Coherent & Cohesive Paragraph
Cohesion (the syntactic level)
• Grammatical elements of writing
• How elements of a text are connected to one another
• Marked by cohesive devices or markers
Example of a Cohesive Paragraph
Close-up study of the planet Mars began when rockets were developed
that could send scientific instruments into space. In 1965, the first
observations of Mars were done by the American spacecraft Mariner
4, which flew near the planet to collect data and take photographs.
Four years later, more data and photographs were collected
by Mariners 6 and 7 as they flew past the planet. Then, in
1971, Mariner 9 actually went into orbit around Mars, and during the
following eleven months, sent back more than 7,000 images before
contact with the spacecraft was lost. The next major step, in 1976, was
the landing of two Viking crafts on two different areas of Mars’ surface.
These landers were able to send back important data about the
atmosphere of the planet.
 Classroom Exercise
Write a paragraph telling the best moment of your experience as a
student at your university.
• Work at the coherence level (idea) first
• Brainstorm ideas for your main ideas, supporting ideas, and
concluding ideas
• Next, work at the cohesive level (sentence/paragraph level)
• Try to vary sentence structures and cohesive markers