This week I'm going to pull-out a bunch of texts that are memoir-ish: When the Relatives Came, What You Know First, The House on Mango Street, and maybe even Marshfield Dreams if I can find it in-time. However, I'm unsure as to whether or not I want to share the memoir I wrote about my… Continue reading Memoir Stuff On-Tap for This-Coming Week
Category: memoir
Trusting Me With the “Stuff” of Their Lives
I was out due to the extreme amount of neck pain I had yesterday. Therefore, when I returned to school this morning, I found the students' work trays brimming with papers waiting to be checked. I sorted them into my file tote folders and started making my way through them about two hours ago. I… Continue reading Trusting Me With the “Stuff” of Their Lives
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In Their Words
Today's Workshop, in my classroom, was spent immersing my students in the memoir genre (or is it genre of memoir... both sound funny to me!). The kids realized that most memoirs are a combination of exposition and narrative. (I compared memoir to a hybrid car. That definitely helped!) After my kids listened to four of… Continue reading In Their Words
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Slight Tweaking
I did some slight tweaking to our memoir unit of study. This is this year's "final" version. Session 1: Writers read and listen to student memoirs and then write in order to inspire their own writing. Session 2: Writers find their life topic by thinking about people who are important to you. One way writers… Continue reading Slight Tweaking
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Gearing-Up for Memoir
We're starting a new unit of study on Monday: MEMOIR! I've taught it twice using Calkins and Chiarella's Book. However, this year is going to be different. Kate and I decided to mesh C&C's book with Katherine Bomer's Book entitled Writing A Life. Our teaching points are from both books. However, we think we might… Continue reading Gearing-Up for Memoir
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An Inspired Writer
The purpose of Ruth's other blog aims to inspire readers and writers. She definitely did that with me today! I decided that what I had already bought my Mom for her upcoming birthday was not enough. Thus, I took Ruth's idea and transformed a memoir I wrote about my Mom for Lucy's Writing Class in… Continue reading An Inspired Writer
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One notebook or many?
Last week I blogged about a Recipe for Conferring Success. I've done some more thinking about it in recent days and am left pondering the following questions for myself as a teacher of writing: 1. One notebook or many? a. How many notebooks should teachers of writing keep to use in conferences and strategy lessons… Continue reading One notebook or many?
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WN Entry: Moving
Right now I feel like the young girl (actually Patricia MacLachlan) in Maclachlan's Memoir What You Know First. I'm preparing for a move from one east coast city to another and it feel so enormous and huge. My boxes are stacked up throughout my apartment leaving little room for me to walk. There is an… Continue reading WN Entry: Moving
