8C @ W Erskine Johnston PS

Memoir – Organizing Ideas

October 8th, 2009 · No Comments

Today we will be moving from our personal memoir rapid writes to organizing the ideas using the memoir graphic organzer.  Students will begin by completing the RAFTS portion of the organizer.
Besides organizing our ideas, the graphic organizer will help us focus in on the central event of our memoir.
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Narrative Writing – Memoirs

October 4th, 2009 · 2 Comments

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 [...]

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