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From Essay and Narrative to Memoir
From Essay and Narrative to Memoir
From Essay and Narrative to Memoir helps students grasp that form follows content, learning to take insights about their lives and decide whether these are best expressed in narratives, in essays, or in a hybrid genre created especially to convey the writer’s content.
Generating Ideas About Our Lives and Finding Depth in the Moments we choose
Generating Ideas About Our Lives and Finding Depth in the Moments we choose
Session 1
What makes a memoir?
Noticing the similarities and differences in memoir structure
Collecting stories from life
Compiling ideas about memoir
Session 2
Interpreting the comings and going of life
Listening intently to support reflection
Collecting entries related to a theme
Assigning oneself work and recording self-assignments
Session 3
Writing small about big topics
Settling down to write well
Angling your stories to bring forth themes
Trust that there's treasure
Session 4
Reading literature to inspire writing
Writing guided by literature
Combining and layering strategies
Writing in the wake of classmates' work
Session 5
Choosing a seed idea
Finding potent topics
Reflecting on seed ideas
Elaborating on your seed ideas
Session 6
Expecting depth from your writing
Naming specific goals and then tracking student progress toward them
Finding the mystery in a topic
Building bridges from one idea to another
Structuring, Drafting, and Revising a Memoir
Structuring, Drafting, and Revising a Memoir
Session 7
What makes a memoir?
Noticing the similarities and differences in memoir structure
Collecting stories from life
Compiling ideas about memoir
Session 8
Interpreting the comings and going of life
Listening intently to support reflection
Collecting entries related to a theme
Assigning oneself work and recording self-assignments
Session 9
Writing small about big topics
Settling down to write well
Angling your stories to bring forth themes
Trust that there's treasure
Session 10
Reading literature to inspire writing
Writing guided by literature
Combining and layering strategies
Writing in the wake of classmates' work
Session 11
What makes a memoir?
Noticing the similarities and differences in memoir structure
Collecting stories from life
Compiling ideas about memoir
A Second Memoir
A Second Memoir
Session 12
What makes a memoir?
Noticing the similarities and differences in memoir structure
Collecting stories from life
Compiling ideas about memoir
Session 13
Interpreting the comings and going of life
Listening intently to support reflection
Collecting entries related to a theme
Assigning oneself work and recording self-assignments
Session 14
Writing small about big topics
Settling down to write well
Angling your stories to bring forth themes
Trust that there's treasure
Session 15
Reading literature to inspire writing
Writing guided by literature
Combining and layering strategies
Writing in the wake of classmates' work
Session 16
What makes a memoir?
Noticing the similarities and differences in memoir structure
Collecting stories from life
Compiling ideas about memoir
Session 17
Interpreting the comings and going of life
Listening intently to support reflection
Collecting entries related to a theme
Assigning oneself work and recording self-assignments
Session 18
Writing small about big topics
Settling down to write well
Angling your stories to bring forth themes
Trust that there's treasure
Session 19
Reading literature to inspire writing
Writing guided by literature
Combining and layering strategies
Writing in the wake of classmates' work
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