PDF-[DOWNLOAD] - Unbowed: A Memoir

In Unbowed Nobel Prize winner Wangari Maathai recounts her extraordinary journey from her childhood in rural Kenya to the world stage When Maathai founded the Green Belt Movement in 1977 she began a vital poor peoples environmental movement focused on the empowerment of women that soon spread across Africa Persevering through runins with the Kenyan government and personal losses and jailed and beaten on numerous occasions Maathai continued to fight tirelessly to save Kenyas forests and to restore democracy to her beloved country Infused with her unique luminosity of spirit Wangari Maathais remarkable story of courage faith and the power of persistence is destined to inspire generations to come. Catches the reader’s attention right away. First sentence of your introduction. Types of Hooks. Dialogue – . starts your paper with a conversation between two or more of the characters. “And where do you think you’re going?” my mother asked, glaring at me.. JAWS. September 2011. Michele Weldon JAWS September 2011. Women, War and Memoir: . The Civil War to Iraq and Beyond the Arab Spring . http://vodpod.com/watch/557669-women-war-journalists. “Her boyfriend left her.”. “A memoir is how one remembers one’s own life, while an autobiography is history, requiring research, dates, facts double-checked” —from Palimpsest by Gore Vidal (Penguin, 1996). Memoir. 9/5. Learning Objective: Can I use specific word choice to write autobiographically?. Library Visit. 5 minute vocab quiz!. Quick task: Capitalization Review. RED PEN . only!. What is a memoir?. Memoirs. Katherine . Kelter. &. . Eleanor . Sednaoui. Topic Overview/ Relevance. 7th grade . English . class . at the . Hartford . Magnet Trinity College Academy . (HMTCA). 5 class periods, each 60 minutes, . 9/8. Learning Objective: Can I use specific word choice to write autobiographically?. Welcome Work: . Take out a piece of paper and label it with the heading.. Put your . NOVEL. . and your . re-written OER . Memoir. Audio Setup Wizard. While you’re waiting, check your audio…. Is your microphone working?. Are your speakers on?. Mic Check!. Next week, you will read your memoir aloud in CC. . That means…. Senior Composition Version. What has made me who I am today?. Where do I come from and where am I going?. What is most meaningful to me?. What events and experiences have been significant for me?. The Assignment. Name Period Date . (Write this all on the bottom tab) . Memoir. 1. Written in 1. st. person point of view in a story form.. 2. Explores how a particular event or time period with a common theme influenced and affected the author. . Day 13. Emotion & Identity UNIT 1: DAY 13. Instructions: . Correct the following sentence in the Bell Ringer section of your notebook. Draw a line separating the subject part of the sentence from the predicate. Hint: The predicate contains the verb! . Step #1. Look around the room until you see an object or something else that reminds you of something that happened in the past. Jot down that memory. If you don’t see anything in the room that reminds you of your past, think of your most vivid memory from your childhood and write that down.. Micro-fiction. Journals. .. Snapshots. .. Pictures. .. Memories.. Daily Objective. Today we’re going to identify features of a memoir and analyze authors’ style and technique to. create alternative forms of literature!. 6 th Grade Memoir Unit Ms. Gilmore, Intern What is a memoir? “ My dear children…you must know that there is nothing higher and stronger and more wholesome and good for life in the future than some good memory, especially a memory of childhood, of home. People talk to you a great deal about your education, but some good, sacred memory, preserved from childhood, is perhaps the best education. If one carries many such memories into life, one is safe to the end of one’s days, and if one has only one good memory left in one’s heart, even that may be the means of saving us Ms. Bowling – thank you. Name:. Key questions:. Memoir writing. What is a memoir? . How . does a memoir differ from an autobiography? . What . is the difference between an autobiography and a biography?.