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AP LanguageAP Language
•Find your assigned seat
•Complete the sheet on your desk. Use your syllabus from yesterday!
• Unit 1: College Essay, Frederick Douglass, basics of rhetoric and close reading, analysis
• Six word memoirs could help you brainstorm ideas for college essay.
• Also think about economy of words, and the stories behind carefully selected ones.
• Five years on, participants have contributed more than half a million mini-memoirs. Smith has published five compilations of the intensely personal accounts and continues his online quest to spark the creativity of aspiring writers.
• "There is inspiration everywhere," he says. "Even if you don't think you're a storyteller, you are."
Writing a six-word memoir...
In order to narrow down a life into six words, a writer needs to begin with many words and ideas.
Follow these instructions to complete a six-word memoir.
Start with a list
List as many words, topics, memories, or personality traits as you can about yourself – activities you do, items, belongings, places you like, and feelings you have. Don’t edit, cross out, change, or rewrite words. Don’t worry about spelling – just write. You are going for quantity, so write as much as you can in about three minutes. You should fill at least one full page.
Example list:
Singer, writer, happy, tired, overworked, camping, colorful, shoes, sea shore, dragons, faeries, teacher, Spanish, Internet, laughing, cartoons, 70s, rock music, Jeep, teddy bears, church, baths, jingles, gum, crayons, super heroes, technology, legos, reading, Saturday morning, dancing, weight lifting, Ziggy, more shoes, sunrises, mother, daughters, snakes, dogs, mythology, thinking, dreamer, fries…
Example list:
Singer, writer, happy, tired, overworked, camping, colorful, shoes, sea shore, dragons, faeries, teacher, Spanish, Internet, laughing, cartoons, 70s, rock music, Jeep, teddy bears, church, long baths, jingles, gum, crayons, super heroes, technology, legos, reading, Saturday morning, dancing, weight lifting, Ziggy, more shoes, sunrises, mother, daughters, snakes, dogs, mythology, thinking, dreamer, fries
Pick one item and freewrite about the thought. That means you just start writing about that idea, object, role, or event. The only rule is don’t stop writing for at least two or three minutes. Whatever comes to mind is fair game.
mother
Synthesize
As a result of the freewrite, you have a sense of your topic. Synthesize, combine the individual elements into an understandable whole, your writing into a phrase that captures the essence of what your topic means to you. The topic of the previous writer was “mother.”
Final effort: Create an image with the six-word memoir. It should be on a blank, standard piece of 8 x11.5 paper. It should include the six words as well as your own images to illustrate. These can be drawings, photographs, etc.
You also need to attach a one paragraph explanation of your six word memoir.
Turn in paragraph, and 6 word memoir with visual representation tomorrow.
Final effort: Create an image with the six-word memoir. It should be on a blank, standard piece of 8 x11.5 paper. It should include the six words as well as your own images to illustrate. These can be drawings, photographs, etc.
You also need to attach a one paragraph explanation of your six word memoir.
Turn in paragraph, and 6 word memoir with visual representation tomorrow.