PPT-Memoir

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. The Corked A Memoir we think have quite excellent writing style that make it easy to comprehend Corked A Memoir Fear and Loathing in Bordeaux A Daughter Corked A Memoir Fear and Loathing in Bordeaux A Daughter and Her Dad Hit the Bottle and Hit the FTKMF. Label a new section in your notes. Answer c. ritical thinking . questions in response to the text. Analyze the development of a complex character. Identify the elements of fiction/figurative language. Journal Time:. Number Your Paper 1-6.. Make a list of six nouns that represent you.. Mrs. Lee. Mother. Wife. Daughter. Teacher. Reader. Lover of “pretty things”. Believer. Hunter. Ball Player. Cheerleader. “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). Memoirs &. Tuesdays With . Morrie. English I. Dewalt. WHS. Unit Objectives. Students will be able to define what is a memoir in nonfiction.. Students will apply knowledge of a memoir in nonfiction to the reading of . 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…. th. Grade Memoir Unit. . information compiled by Ms. Gilmore, Intern. Getting Started. “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.”. 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! . © 2015 Taylor & Francis. Revisiting the concept of genre. Genres are social processes. Texts are patterned in reasonably predictable ways according to patterns of social interaction in a particular culture. Social patterning and textual patterning meet as genres. Genres are textual interventions in society; and society itself would be nothing without language in all its patterned predictability. It follows that genres are not simply created by individuals in the moment of their utterance; to have meaning, they must be social. Individual speakers and writers act within a cultural context and with a knowledge of the different social effects of different types of oral and written text (. What Do . Y. ou . H. ave to Say?. Author Ernest Hemingway . (1899-1961). Father of the 6-Word Memoir. Legend has it that in the 1920s, author Ernest Hemingway . said . that he could write a complete story in just six words. He wrote: . What is a memoir? . Memoir . tells a compelling story using truth, theme, 1st person POV narration, voice, and a fifth element—the M&Ms of writing, Memory and Musing.. 1. TRUTH. It . really happened. We know the trouble writers can get into by not remembering this. But the bigger dilemma is how not telling the truth leaves the reader; it not only weakens the relationship with the author, it destroys it. No longer trust them. This can be tricky because not everything in a memoir is word for word true. Who can remember exactly what their dad said at breakfast fifty years ago? Dialogue serves to further the theme.. 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?.