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Make your Words Count… and Count your Words

Make your Words Count… and Count your Words. Prepared by Amy Miller High School Writing Day PLWP / MWSU March 5, 2009. I found my mother’s suicide note. by Hell’s Kitchen baby. Definition of Memoir. Autobiographical Captures highlights and meaningful moments Captures particular scenes

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Make your Words Count… and Count your Words

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  1. Make your Words Count…and Count your Words Prepared by Amy Miller High School Writing Day PLWP / MWSU March 5, 2009

  2. I found my mother’s suicide note. by Hell’s Kitchen baby

  3. Definition of Memoir • Autobiographical • Captures highlights and meaningful moments • Captures particular scenes • Contemplates meaning • Emotional

  4. For Sale: baby shoes, never worn. by Ernest Hemingway

  5. Six Word Memoirs on NPR • http://www.npr.org/programs/totn/features/2008/02/memoir/gallery/index.html

  6. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.  William Strunk, Jr., The Elements of Style, 1918

  7. If it takes a lot of words to say what you have in mind, give it more thought. Dennis Roth

  8. Rendering

  9. Brainstorm • Memorable Moments • Significant Events

  10. Brainstorm • Characteristics • Titles

  11. Events Moments Characteristics Titles Connect the Dots

  12. Prewriting about Event or Moment • How old were you? • Where were you? • Who was with you? • What happened? • What did you do? Want to do? Wish you did? • How did you feel about it then? Now? • How did it change you? Change others? • Would you be a different person today if it never happened?

  13. Prewriting about Characteristic or Title • Where did it come from? • How does it affect you? Others? • How do you feel about it? Want to feel about it? • How do others feel about it? • Can you change it? • Would you change it if you could? Why or why not?

  14. More Ideas for Six Word Memoirs • Write about: • The person you want to be (now or someday). • Someone you love. • Someone you admire. • A favorite character. • Your mortal enemy.

  15. Even More Ideas for Six Word Writing • Write a six word short story. • Write a series of six word memoirs or stories. • Write a collection for children. • Write a tribute series for someone you care about. • Create a photo essay “illustrated” with six word captions.

  16. Navy Brat— Ship without an anchor.

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