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Memoir: Tell a Little Personal Truth in your Classroom

Memoir: Tell a Little Personal Truth in your Classroom. Kathryn Campbell St. Paul Academy and Summit School 1712 Randolph Avenue St. Paul, MN 55105 www.spa.edu kcampbell@spa.edu 651-696-1459. Dipping our toes in the water.

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Memoir: Tell a Little Personal Truth in your Classroom

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  1. Memoir:Tell a Little Personal Truth in your Classroom Kathryn Campbell St. Paul Academy and Summit School 1712 Randolph Avenue St. Paul, MN 55105 www.spa.edu kcampbell@spa.edu 651-696-1459

  2. Dipping our toes in the water

  3. Smith Magazine has several projects that allow students to write creative nonfiction, win contests, and be published: The Moment is another great Smith writing project for memoir, and asks writers to share stories (in 750 words or less) of a moment that changed their life in profound ways. http://www.smithmag.net/themoment/ http://www.smithmag.net/sixwords/

  4. I learn most when I teach.

  5. It is time to dive in

  6. A Song of the Degrees Ezra Pound I Rest with me Chinese colours, For I think the glass is evil. II The wind moves above the wheat- With a silver crashing, A thin war of metal. I have known the golden disc, I have seen it melting above me. I have known the stone-bright place, The hall of clear colours. III O glass subtly evil, O confusion of colours! O light bound and bent in, soul of the captive, Why am I warned? Why am I sent away? Why is your glitter full of curious mistrust? O glass subtle and cunning, O powdery gold! O filaments of amber, two-faced iridescence!

  7. http://www.wordle.net/create

  8. Resort to the truth

  9. PostSecret is a community art project that invites participants to create a postcard that includes a personal truth and mail it anonymously to the artist, Frank Warren: Postsecret 13345 Copper Ridge Road Germantown, MD 20874 Postcards are published on the website, on Facebook, and in books. www.postsecret.com

  10. Make words in the world

  11. Blogger Blogger is a user-friendly, advertisement free site where students can publish their work. OpenZine This magazine site allows students to link other published works from blog, music, photo, or video sites to the pages of their self-published work. It also allows for multiple editions of published work (i.e. weekly or monthly updates) Facebook All students have them; it can be a great tool to talk about persona and self as character. Twitter Provides an excellent space for frequent updates; wonderful exercise in telling a concise story. (140 characters)

  12. Lulu Books www.lulu.com

  13. Thoughts ripple like water

  14. Suggested Reading • The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls • This Boy’s Life by Tobias Wolf • A Moveable Feast by E. Hemingway • I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by M. Angelou • Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt • The Florist’s Daughter by Patricia Hampl • Blooming by Susan Allen Toth • A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah • Sickened by Julie Gregory • Hunger of Memory by R. Rodriguez • Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston

  15. Graphic Nonfiction Picto-essay • Old Friend from Far Away by Natalie Goldberg • If You Want to Write by Brenda Ueland • On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by S. King • Bird by Bird by Ann Lamott • Stitches by David Small • Persepolis by MarjaneSatrapi • Fun Home by Allison Be • Syncopated (ed. Brendan Burford) Writing Memoir Texts

  16. One more time

  17. The Thingsby Donald HallWhen I walk in my house I see pictures,bought long ago, framed and hanging—de Kooning, Arp, Laurencin, Henry Moore—that I've cherished and stared at for years,yet my eyes keep returning to the masters of the trivial—a white stone perfectly round, tiny lead models of baseball players, a cowbell, a broken great-grandmother's rocker,a dead dog's toy—valueless, unforgettable detritus that my children will throw awayas I did my mother's souvenirs of trips with my dead father, Kodaks of kittens, and bundles of cards from her mother Kate.

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