• is based on a memory

• is written in first person

• is based on what the author believes is true

• reveals feelings and character traits of the author

• has meaning; shows what the author learned from the event

• is about the author’s experience more than the event itself

Adapted from: http://www.theeducatorsnetwork.com/webpages/thewriteresource/TeachingMemoirWriting.pdf

https://www.indiacurrents.com/articles/2013/08/10/memories-are-made

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• about significant events in your life

• notes based on interviews with other people about a significant event in your life

• about your own character traits

• observations about how your memoir author revealed his/her character traits

• notes to yourself about how to emulate your memoir author’s style

https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Talk:Wikinews_interviews_Oceania_

http://virtual-zen.typepad.com/liz_logic/2013/04/the-ian-notebook.html

http://nittygriddy.com/page/5/

Look through your “Significant Events” timeline and through your writer’s notebook.

Choose an event that you are willing to share with your classmates, parents, other teachers, administrators and me.

Make sure the event you are willing to share is also a GOOD IDEA to write about.

How will you know if it is a GOOD IDEA? Ask yourself these questions: Do I have strong feelings about this memory? Do I remember enough details to write well about it? Would I feel good about reading it and sharing it with

others? Will it hold my reader’s attention? Once they start, will

they HAVE to finish it?

http://lifesenigmas.com/got-good-idea-now-theyre-never-just-idea/

Go back to your notes about The Name Game. Think about how you could apply the strategies with which you were most comfortable to creating a memoir piece.

2. Multi-media memoir

1. Multi-genre memoir

OR http://www.allthingsprivatepractice.com/the-knowledge-market-f

A multi-genre memoir will use different types of writing while still being coherent and focused on one memory.

Genres you could include: a newspaper article for the factual

parts of the memory a poem that describes your emotions

about the memory an interview with another person

present at the time a diary entry anticipating the event or

reflecting on the event a recipe of the important “ingredients”

of the memory a map of the place where the memory

took place a comic strip about part of the memory a letter to someone in the future or

past giving them advice based on what you learned from your memory

Adapted from: http://www.lesn.appstate.edu/fryeem/RE5130/Fall09/MGMemoirProject.html

https://toshamorrison.wordpress.com/multigenre-memoir-project/

A multi-media memoir will use different types of media while still being coherent and focused on one memory.

Media you could include: a video you took of the setting, another person’s perspective or items associated

with the memory a video someone takes of you telling part of the memory a song you wrote and recorded background music for a video, dance or spoken performance a video of a dance you choreographed and performed or taught others to perform photos of the setting, the people or items associated with the memory animated portion of memory Sketches, a painting or collage depicting the memory

https://youtu.be/32i2qIMHY4k

http://www.androidcentral.com/dance-man

http://www.dreamstime.com/

https://www.pinterest.com/odeacons/

http://www.showme.com/topic/

Rubrics, dates and specifics to come.