ELA: Memoir Mentor Text

Post date: Apr 15, 2014 10:58:55 PM

ELA: Memoir Unit Mentor Text http://www.extraordinarylives.com/memoir-writing-ideas.html

Are you wondering how to begin your memoir writing? Ideas may flow more easily if you look at your life in a compartmentalized way. Selecting a tighter focus than your entire life makes it easier to picture your memoir; it's far easier to grasp a beginning, middle and end. Many consider such focus as the key definition of a memoir, as opposed to an autobiography that draws from an entire lifetime.

Think about how your life can be segmented into the following global themes:

To seed your thinking, below is a list of specific memoir writing themes. As you consider these themes, think about whether a natural story emerges for you, with a clear start, a rising conflict, a resolution, and a fundamental change in you as a result. If you identify each of those elements within a theme, you have great potential for an interesting and motivating memoir.