Memoir Writing
Students will also have days to work with a writing partner and days to edit and revise their work using an editing checklist.
Bend 1: Generating Ideas about Our Lives and Finding Depth in the Moments We Choose
What makes a memoir?
Interpreting the comings and goings of life
Writing small about big topics
Reading literature to inspire writing
Choosing a seed idea
Expecting depth from your writing
Interpreting the comings and goings of life
Writing small about big topics
Reading literature to inspire writing
Choosing a seed idea
Expecting depth from your writing
Bend 2: Structuring, Drafting, and Revising a Memoir
Studying and planning structures
The inspiration to draft
Being your own teacher
Revising the narrative portion of a memoir
Editing for voice
The inspiration to draft
Being your own teacher
Revising the narrative portion of a memoir
Editing for voice
Bend 3: A Second Memoir
Seeing again, with new lenses: interpreting your own story
Flash-drafting
Revising the expository portions of a memoir
Reconsidering the finer points
Rereading your draft and drawing on all you know to revise
Metaphors can convey big ideas
Editing to match sound to meaning
Placing our writing in the company of others
Flash-drafting
Revising the expository portions of a memoir
Reconsidering the finer points
Rereading your draft and drawing on all you know to revise
Metaphors can convey big ideas
Editing to match sound to meaning
Placing our writing in the company of others
Videos
|
|
|
Evaluating Sample Memoirs Using Our Writing Checklist
Memoir Writing Homework
|
|
|
Argument Writing Homework
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Information Writing Student Checklist | |
File Size: | 1128 kb |
File Type: |
Information Writing Rubric | |
File Size: | 68 kb |
File Type: | docx |