Fri. 1/3015

Learning Target:

• Identify characteristics of effective memoirs
• Choose a possible topic for your memoir

Work Collected:

• Exit ticket: topic for your memoir and 3 characteristics of memoirs

Work Assigned/Handed Out:

• Read for at least 90 minutes this weekend (reading goal due Monday)

Summary of Class:

• Read for ten minutes, then check in to your reading progress spreadsheet
  
• Introduction to memoirs
• Bad example: click here
• Better example: click here
• Characteristics of effective and ineffective memoirs:
  
• Writer's notebook: Brainstorm some memories and their "So what?"
• WHAT: While on vacation in Colorado with my family, I climbed Mt. Harvard, the fourth tallest mountain in the continental United States.
• “SO WHAT?”: It was the most difficult experience of my life: dangerous, challenging, and exhausting.   (I even vomited off the side of a cliff at one point.)  But it was also the biggest physical accomplishment I ever endured; it taught me what hard work was and I pushed the limit of what I thought was possible for me.
• Note card: Identify a WHAT (memory) and a SO WHAT (significance).  On the back, list 3 things about a memoir from today's lesson.  This note card is your exit ticket today.