Please write a new personal narrative using the lessons that you gained from our mentor text The Honorable
Mention. You will want to have your annotated mentor text next to you as you write. Think about how Linda Sue
Park used different writing techniques to cause her reader to feel the strong emotions she felt in this moment
and make the narrative come to life. She paid attention to the way her characters spoke and how they
interacted with each other. She used inner thinking to reveal the main character’s personality and hint at the
conflict in the moment. She zoomed in on the smallest details of the moment of most tension to help her reader
truly visualize the events as they occurred and to heighten suspense.