This week we will begin working on our narrative writing. 
We are focusing on writing a memoir. Memoirs are autobiographical in nature (they tell about the author’s life), but narrower in scope than a full autobiography. Our memoirs are going to focus on a single memorable event in our lives. To prepare, we will begin our Writer’s Workshop on Monday this week by creating a personal timeline of memorable events from our lives. We will use the “Personal Timeline” graphic organizer. From there, we will select one memorable event to develop into a short memoir.
image: Writing! by Markus Rodder
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shannon smith » Blog Archive » Teachable Moment 2.0
// Oct 19, 2009 at 9:26 pm
[...] students’ voice recordings of their essays and realized that they were a perfect pairing for my own students’ memoirs – a work in progress in our classroom at the [...]
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Leads that Hook Readers | 8C @ W Erskine Johnston PS
// Oct 21, 2009 at 8:15 pm
[...] subscribe to the RSS feed for updates on this topic.Powered by Greet BoxWe continue to work on our memoirs this week. Now that we have worked with our drafts, finding the most important moment and [...]
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