Memoir+Unit

//"Write about what makes you different."// **Sandra Cisneros** ** Guiding Questions: **
 * Memoir (Personal Narrative) Unit: **
 * What is a memoir?
 * What objects, places, people, and events have shaped your life? (Ralph Fletcher website)
 * What memories are vivid and significant for you?
 * How might your organize and describe these memories so others can enjoy?


 * Memoir Introduction and Overview: **
 * Read pages 3-5 in Ralph Fletcher's __Marshfield Dreams (see doc below)__.
 * Use his ideas to inspire your memoir writing with a QuickWrite:The Place I Live/My Neighborhood in your journal. (you may draw the areas around your home or write descriptively about it)
 * Generate some ideas about memories in your life. Use these ideas (also glue in your journal)
 * Develop your own Memoir Lifeline of important events in your life. Use a folded piece of paper or this link.
 * Create your own Memoir Map of the places most of your memories are made.
 * Visit Ralph Fletcher's website for more writing ideas.

** Click on the assignment links to access our activities for each memoir piece. **

Memoir of an Important Object

Memoir of an Important Place

Memoir of an Important Person

Memoir **"The Place I Live"** Memoir **Object** Memoir **Person-Pet** Building Memoir Book and Map
 * Due dates:**


 * Memoir Book Title Pages Template: **


 * Colorado Content Writing Standard #1: Write with a literary intent.**


 * Learning Essentials:**
 * 1) Students will write and compile a variety of pieces reflecting on a signifcant object, place, person, and event in their lives.
 * 2) Student will show evidence of the writing process through planning, drafting, revising and editing a final copy.
 * 3) Student will write and revise so that each personal narrative includes sufficient descriptive detail.
 * 4) Student will complete a personal narrative of an event that includes a well-developed plot.

**Rubric used to assess students' progress:**