ISL 9

Writing Different Text Types

Breaking Up (Narrative essay)

          When you are in high school, six months can feel like forever. Just remember back to a week before graduation and how slow those last few days moved. I know it is hard to imagine but I dated someone for two and a half years. Although there have been many life defining moments, breaking up with Ben was by far the biggest challenge I have ever had to face. My ability to move past him impacted my life in ways you cannot imagine.

          Ben and I met in the summer of ninety-nine during a family vacation. At that moment I felt what it was like to have butterflies in my stomach and the racing heart when his eyes caught my own. I felt as if I were Winnie from, The Wonder Years, waiting for Kevin to express his true feelings. Due to each of our encounters, I fell harder and harder for him and he did the same. For the first year, I felt nothing could go wrong, yet I was oblivious.

          Ben and I embarked on a two year relationship based on fighting and lack of trust. It became more of a chore, rather than a choice, to be together. There were too many nights of tears, rather than smiles. It is incredible how someone can be everything you want but can’t be at the same time. After way to long I realized that I no longer longed to be with Ben. I became dependent on Ben to make me happy. I needed him to be there all the time. 

          When Ben and I realized what it was we had become, I made the decision to leave behind that part of my life. It was that single conversation that changed my life dramatically. I realized after my decision how far from God I really had drifted. I now know that true happiness comes from within a person, not based on another individual. 

 

The Human Body (Descriptive essay)

The human body is made up of a number of different systems. Each system has a separate function, but some work together.

          One system is the skeleton, which serves to support the body and protect the internal organs. The respiratory system enables us to breathe and take oxygen into the blood, which moves around the body by means of the circulatory system. The digestive system enables us to take in food needed for growth. Waste matter is ejected from the body by means of the urinary system. The nervous system controls the other systems and enables human beings to think. 

          The endocrine system consists of various glands, such as the thyroid, sex and adrenal glands. The function of these glands is to secrete chemicals, known as hormones, into the blood. These hormones control various processes in the body, such as growth, sexual activities and digestion.

          Each system is made up of organs. The lungs, for example, are part of the respiratory system. The heart is an organ in the circulatory system. The liver functions as part of the digestive system and other systems. 

Every organ is composed of several kinds of tissue. Epithelial tissue, which includes the skin, forms a covering over organs. Connective tissue supports and holds together parts of the body and includes bone and cartilage. Other types of tissue include nerve tissue and blood tissue. 

          All tissue consists of cells. These are so small that they are measured in thousandths of a millimeter and can only be seen with a microscope. Each cell is covered with a thin membrane which surrounds a nucleus, and a jelly-like substance, called cytoplasm. This in turn contains minute particles, each with its own special function.

COMPARE AND CONTRAST THE ORGANIZATIONAL PATTERN OF THE TEXT-TYPES

Narrative essay	Descriptive essay
• Narrative writing is from the authors point of view. So, it’s like: 'I thought the view out of the window was very pretty' or 'Maybe i shouldn’t have done that!'	• Descriptive writing is describing things as they are without a point of view. Like: 'The sun was shining, making the day very hot' or 'If you looked out of the window you could see the village church'.
• The narrative essay you use your point of view to tell the story.	• The descriptive you describe the person or the place or the event using vivid images that refer to the smell, touch, sound, taste, personality, and behavior, also, person job or hobbies, and you describe what you feel about the person throughout the use of all these categories.
• In narrative writing, the reader is perfectly capable to tell you the plot of the story, while in descriptive writing there does not have to be a plot, but something has become very easy for the reader to visualize.	• Descriptive writing vividly portrays a person, place, or thing in such a way that the reader can visualize the topic and enter into the writer’s experience.
• Narrative writing tells a story or part of a story.	• Descriptive writing vividly portrays a person, place, or thing in such a way that the reader can visualize the topic and enter into the writer’s experience.
• Narrative writing appears in and is not limited to novels, short stories, biographies, autobiographies, historical accounts, essays, poems, and plays.	• Descriptive writing appears almost everywhere and is often included in other genre, such as in a descriptive introduction of a character in a narrative.
• The general characteristics of descriptive writing include: - elaborate use of sensory language - rich, vivid, and lively detail - figurative language such as simile, hyperbole, metaphor,    symbolism and personification - showing, rather than telling through the use of  active verbs and precise modifiers	• The general characteristics of narrative writing include: - plot structure - conflict - characterization - setting - theme - point of view - sequencing - transitions