memoir writing
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Memoir Writing. Honors 9 th Lit Spring 2014. First 10. Create a “quick list of memories that you may want to write about in your memoir. Showing Vs. telling. The children were having fun. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
MEMOIR WRITING
Honors 9th Lit
Spring 2014
FIRST 10
Create a “quick list of memories that you may want to write about in your memoir.
SHOWING VS. TELLING
The children were having fun.
Tumbling off the couch, letting out banshee-like screams, the small children fell to an imaginary death at the foot of the torn and tattered “cliff.”
NOW, YOU TRY IT…
I was annoyed with that stupid truck.
WHAT IS A MEMOIR?
William Zinsser defines it as a ‘portion of life…[it] takes us back to a corner of [our] life that was unusually vivid or intense – childhood, for instance – that was framed by unique events’ (qtd. in Gillespie 48).
Read and annotate excerpt from Wally Lamb’s She’s Come Undone.
ELEMENTS OF A MEMOIR
Tells about true events that the writer has experienced
Written in first-person POV
Mentions the time, the place, and the people involved
Describes the events in order in which they happened
Indicates the writer’s feeling about the experience
YOUR ASSIGNMENTWrite your own memoir.
Use figurative language (alliteration, personification, metaphor, simile, hyperbole, imagery, onomatopoeia – include a minimum of 4), use dialogue, etc.
Focus on being descriptive, not narrative.
Remember, a memoir is supposed to be true, so don’t exaggerate or embellish the truth too much.
COMPLETED Rough draft due tomorrow – Friday!