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Six Word Memoir

Six Word Memoir. http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/02/07/summing-it-up-in-six-words/?_r=1. Aims and objectives. Six Word Memoirs to improve students’ summarising , analysing and inferring skills to help them become better readers and writers

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Six Word Memoir

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  1. Six Word Memoir http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/02/07/summing-it-up-in-six-words/?_r=1

  2. Aims and objectives • Six Word Memoirs to improve students’ summarising, analysing and inferring skills to help them become better readers and writers • To demonstrate a knowledge of implicit (suggested meanings) in text • To recognise how a writer uses specific words and phrases to affect the reader • Strategies to analyse and interpret meanings of words and phrases in text • Demonstrate a knowledge of synonyms • What is a memoir?

  3. Recap: Q: What is the writer doing when he/she chooses specific words in their writing? • Task 1: write an answer. • Discussion • A: trying to affect the writer by setting a mood/tone (or answers like this)

  4. Ernest Hemingway’s short story: For sale: Baby shoes, never worn. Task 2: What is it about? How does the writer’s powerful imagery and choice of words affect the reader? Discuss.

  5. Other Examples • No taxidermist loved his daughter more. Where does the punctuation need to be in this next sentences to give it different meaning: • A woman without a man is nothing.

  6. What is a memoir? • A memoir is a special kind of autobiography, usually involving a public portion of the author’s life as it relates to a person, historic event, or thing. The text is about the personal knowledge and/or experiences of the author. • In contrast, an autobiography covers the author’s entire life to the present, and is expected to include details about his or her public and private life. A biography is someone’s life story written by another person.

  7. Examples of 6 word memoirs • “Nixon childhood, Reagan teenager, hope finally.” Tonia Mohammed-Madejczyk, Northport, New York • “Facebook has ruined my entire life.” -Jeanie Engleke, Bradley Beach, NJ • Nobody cared, then they did. Why? • Born bald. Grew hair. Bald again. • Started small, grew, peaked, shrunk, vanished.

  8. Write your 6 word memoir • Task 3: write a six-word memoir. • Rules and tips: • Make your six-word memoir personal and honest (e.g. your attitude towards life). • Use the Six Word limitation to inspire creativity. • Think about the emotion/tone you wish to express through your writing. • Put the six best words in the best order to express exactly what you want to communicate. • Consider where you will place capital letters and punctuation marks.

  9. 6 word memoir tips • Think of a pallet of words, write them randomly on your paper and then begin to order your work. • SYNONYMS (SEE THESAURUS) • Think of your life in general i.e. your attitude towards it. What drives you. • E.g. love life, love travelling, reading and politics, family man. Making time for all. Positive, funny, poems, upbeat activist, animals and the planet. Tolerance and equality… • Equality in life, love all. Tolerate!

  10. If you need a starter to help • Start by writing a six-word description of a shape. • Describe different geometrical shapes and their attributes. • Always round. No straight edges. Circle.

  11. Inspiration. • http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/02/07/summing-it-up-in-six-words/?_r=1

  12. Your 6 word memoirs. • Life’s meaningless, then you came along. • All the same, six feet under. • Build cardboard castles, not paper dreams. • Wanted: eyes, a heart, possible feelings… • Straightened hair this morning, already curly.

  13. Have we achieved? • To demonstrate a knowledge of implicit (suggested meanings) in text • To recognise how a writer uses specific words and phrases to affect the reader • Strategies to analyse and interpret meanings of words and phrases in text • Demonstrate a knowledge of synonyms

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