Goals

 

Details

Duration: N/A

Assessments: Student reflections/journals, Student discussions, Student writing, Performance/presentation (i.e. speech, play), Group work, Other (enter below)

Additional Assessment Type: Digital Book

Materials: Writing examples, computer with InDesign

 

Description

Students are working on their descriptive, creative, and sensory writing in combination with their own self exploration. Through a series of prewriting activities the students compose drafts of different kinds of spontaneous writing (see memoir prewriting) that they can draw from when writing their polished memoir. After learning techniques for adding sensory details and "exploding the moment" students write an individual memoir as the main piece of their book. The overview and benchmarks are provided to guide the students through the process.

Book Project Overview
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Memoir Project Tasks
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Reading Process Project
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Student Work Example # 1
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Student Work Example # 2
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Student Work Example # 3
By Katherine Law...
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Writing My Memoir Project
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Author Reflections

It was challenging to read a book in addition to asking the students to produce several types of writing assignments. In the future I would make a "reader" of different effective examples of memoirs as opposed to reading a novel and reading examples of memoir excerpts.