Narrator & Voice Assessment Project - Thanksgiving 2011 - Freshman Version

November 30, 2011

English 9 - Period 3

Narrator Project

Jammer Dinner 2011

First-Person Narration from Lil’ Beyonce’s Point of View

Today is our big performance at the year round Jammer dinner and I’m super excited. I can’t wait to see all the people from last year there and the new people. Everybody calls me LIL’ Beyonce’ because they know I get down when I’m dancing. This year our outfits are purple and that’s my favorite color. The Jammer dinner is always at the Hall of Champions and it’s really neat inside. They have a second floor that is just for awards and for the people that contributed to the museum. We are outside practicing the routine when we see two big buses coming that means the kids have arrived and we can get start heading into the building. We decided to go through the whole routine one more time before going inside just to make sure we have it down. When we step inside we immediately go to the second floor to have a meeting about making sure we do our best and going out there and have fun. We Were all pumped and ready for the show. When they announced us out to the floor(stage) we all let out squeal and starting going down the stairs. It was a fifteen minute performance but we ended the routine with smiles on our faces and everybody clapped for us. We got to meet all the kids there and I hope I get to perform next year also.

Third-Person Limited Narration Focused on Montanna

Montanna was excited to be going to the Jammer dinner with her housemate Keona. At first, she wasn’t even planning on going because she had nothing dressy to wear.  She was contemplating on wearing her graduation dress from last year but decided that she didn’t want to wear the same dress twice. So her and Keona decided to “match” and wear the same top,jeans,and converse. She was satisfied with what she was wearing and decided to be more prepared for the Christmas dinner. Her and Keona headed out to the buses that were parked in front of campus. People were dressed all fancy and she was just wearing plain old jeans ,but really didn’t care. Wayne the campus supervisor told the girls to get on one bus and the boys on the other. So they both hurried on the bus to make sure that they got good seats. Right when they got on the bus everybody yelled at they bus driver to turn on the radio. When the song “I’m Sexy And I Know It” came on everybody started singing along to the song and dancing in their seats. Montanna Told Keona that it’s along dn they drive to the hall of champions so we might as well just watch videos on my phone. We listened to Keona’s favorite song first because insisted it was the perfect song ever. When Montanna put on the song “ It Will Rain” By Bruno Mars They both immediately started together. Then they finally arrived at the hall of champions Downtown everybody was starved and ready to eat. Montanna and Keona both got off the bus and ran inside to meet Quentin Jammer and to get their tables. she ate with some of the girls at the academy and they all had good time laughing and joking around. she enjoyed watching the dance team and listening to a man Named Matthew talk about his life it was really inspiring. Then it came to a end and they headed home. She fell asleep on the bus ride back and was glad that she attended the dinner.

Narrator Expository Paragraph
A narrator can influence the reader on how much  they can tune into the characters thoughts and feelings. For example in first-person, The narrator is the character in the story and  they tell you everything. In third-person limited, the narrator, who plays no part in the story, zooms in on the thoughts & feelings of one character. Many readers enjoy reading first-person narrative because they really get to look into the mind of the character.