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Applying What You’ve Learned to Memoir Writing

Applying What You’ve Learned to Memoir Writing. Inquiry 1: Close/critical Reading. Inquiry 1: Close/Critical rEADING. Perform rigorous and recursive examination of short textual passages, in order to interpret, analyze, and respond to texts.

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Applying What You’ve Learned to Memoir Writing

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  1. Applying What You’ve Learned to Memoir Writing

  2. Inquiry 1: Close/critical Reading

  3. Inquiry 1: Close/Critical rEADING • Perform rigorous and recursive examination of short textual passages, in order to interpret, analyze, and respond to texts. • Identify and differentiate critical analysis, summary, and personal reflection in responses to texts. • Analyze one’s own subjectivity in the interpretation of and response to texts. • Apply poetic, rhetorical, and narratological concepts to analyze the formal elements of texts. • Reflect on the process of reading and how we as readers make meaning.

  4. Inquiry 2: cultural/historical Interrogation

  5. Inquiry 2: Cultural/Historical Interrogation • Develop reading practices designed to produce critical engagement with and more thorough knowledge of texts. • Identify the historical and cultural contexts shaping the production and reception of texts, for author, for original audiences/readers, for contemporary audiences/readers. • Develop methodologies for researching the historical and cultural contexts shaping the production and reception of texts. • Analyze the impact of cultural and historical contexts through a process of question-driven inquiry.

  6. Inquiry 3: Creative Production

  7. Inquiry 3: creative Production • Engage with primary or secondary research • Illustrate reflective decisions • Practice deep revision • Interrogate cultural and historical assumptions • Demonstrate audience awareness • Exhibit knowledge of genre/modality constraints/affordances

  8. Why the focus on Memory? • Telling stories is the way humans have always passed on wisdom to the next generation • We all have a story to tell—something to share with others, to encourage them to think or act differently • What memoirs have you read? • What made you read them? What did you learn?

  9. WritinGMemoirS • Keep in mind that the memoir you’re writing is public. (“This is the story of my life” isn’t going to be interesting to anyone but you.) • And…with that in mind, if someone were to pick up your memoir at the bookstore, video store, etc., who would they be? Who is your intended audience? • What is your purpose for writing? Why do you want this audience to know about your experience? How can they benefit from this new knowledge?

  10. Becoming a Reader of Your Own Text

  11. SCENARIO: (You’ll use Draft 1 and/or Draft 1.5 for this activity—whichever you think will be most useful for you.) • You happen to randomly encounter this text, maybe at a library, an art fair, a video store, etc. • You know nothing about the author or his/her experiences. • You enjoy the text, but you feel like it’s missing something—it hasn’t quite reached perfection. • Using Post-It notes, make notes on the text about what you’d like to know more about.

  12. Reviewing DraftS 1 & 1.5 POST ON GROUP PAGE—SUBJECT LINE: “In-Class 4/11” CHARACTERS • What do you know about the characters from this reading? • What do you still need to know? • Can you picture the characters in your mind? If not, why not? SETTING • What do you know about the setting of this text? • What information are you missing? • Where would more specific detail be useful? • Can you picture the scene in your mind? If not, why not? CULTURAL/HISTORICAL CONTEXT • What do you know about the culture/time period in which this experience occurs? • How do you see the culture/time period affecting the experience itself, as well as your reception of the text?

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