Name: ___________________________ Date: _____________ Hour: ______
Reflective/Narrative Essay Pre-Write, Part I
Part One
Directions: Use the ten “watermark events” that you came up with in your brainstorming activity to fill out the chart below. Name
each event and write them in on the bottom of the chart. Next, evaluate these events by plotting them on the graph. Positive numbers
represent what you remember as a positive event and negative numbers represent negative events.
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Life
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Part Two
Choose one “watermark experience” from the ten listed above. You’ll want to pick one that you remember well and that you feel you
can write a fully developed reflective essay about.