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Capturing the Importance of Heritage Memoir

Capturing the Importance of Heritage Memoir. An introduction process for self-discovery, writing, and presentation. Instructions : Open a Word document and save as Memoir Writing. Contentions and GLCE’s. Before I get started:. Bio-Board.

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Capturing the Importance of Heritage Memoir

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  1. Capturing the Importance of Heritage Memoir An introduction process for self-discovery, writing, and presentation. Instructions: Open a Word document and save as Memoir Writing.

  2. Contentions and GLCE’s • Before I get started:

  3. Bio-Board • Use question inclusive (QI) method for one-sentence response • Safe and Personalized Classroom • Uses speech in conjunction with pictures, artifacts, drawings, text, etc. to convey message • A creative, visual introduction • Opportunity to get to know students: • activities outside of school • personal interests • speaking ability • Segue to larger assignment/other class

  4. Artifact Bag Show and Tell Three artifacts Choose one item to present Share how this item or tradition connects you with your family?

  5. Artifact Prompt • Builds on previous assignment • Focus writing Family and Heritage: Who Am I?

  6. Heritage Memoir A memoir is an account of a particular, meaningful event in one’s life. It’s a brief snapshot; a moment of importance that you would include in your autobiography.

  7. Memoir Characteristics • Focuses and reflects on the relationship between the writer and a particular person, place, animal, or object. • Leaves the reader with one impression of the subject. • Limited to a particular phase, time, place, or recurring behavior. • Makes the subject come alive. • Maintains a first person point of view.

  8. Memoir Purpose Memoirs are truly reflective because they teach the writer who they are by looking at who they were.

  9. Heritage Memoir Rubric Builds confidence as a writer Focus on content Effort taken into account Can’t fail Capturing the Importance of Heritage Rubric

  10. Memoir Necessities For this memoir, please include an artifact or tradition, introduce at least one person having a significant relationship with you, limit the time to a specific event, and maintain a first-person point of view.

  11. Heritage Memoir Practice Take the next thirty minutes to draft your memoir. Be ready to share. Bobby Pen Curls Sample Memoir Essays

  12. Heritage Essay: Student Samples Essence of Origin The Smell of Pine

  13. Professional Sources Atwell, Nancie. 2nd Ed. In the Middle: New Understandings About Writing, Reading, and Learning. Boynton/Cook Publishers, Inc., 1998. "heritage." Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary. 2009. Merriam-Webster Online. 20 June 2009.<http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/heritage> Jefferson County Public Schools. “Teaching Students to Read & Write a Memoir”. June 20, 2009. <http://web2.jefferson.k12.ky.us/CCG/supp/MS_Memoir.PDF> National Writing Project and Nagin, Carl. Because Writing Matters: Improving Student Writing in Our Schools. Jossey-Bass, 2006. Tornow, Joan. “Sample Memoir Essays”. 2008. June 20, 2009. <http://www.writingmemoir.com/samples.aspx>.

  14. Capturing the Importance of Heritage Memoir Unit Finale QUESTIONS

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