ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: When I Was Young In, a Literature to Language Experience
Past meets present in this lesson in which young scholars practice verb tense when they write personal short stories that they then publish in a flip book.
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: English Language Arts: Grade 7: How to Write a Memoir
How do writers present the challenges that adolescents face as they grow up? Students will learn about the importance of memoirs and coming of age literature. Students will learn about the craft of writing memoirs and explore their own...
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Education Oasis: Memoir: The Stuff of Our Lives Unit
A six to eight week unit about the genre of memoir. Students will see that writers write about the ordinary happenings of their lives and will be encouraged to reflect upon the significance of remembered events. Students will keep a...
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Louisiana Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: Grade 7: Memoir: Unit Files
A Google Drive folder with instructional presentations, discussion questions, student activities, and assessments for the text, Memoir.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Using Comprehension Strategies With Elie Wiesel's Night
Working in small groups, students read and discuss Elie Wiesel's memoir Night and then take turns assuming the "teacher" role, as the class works with four different comprehension strategies.RI.11-12.4 Word meaning, RI.11-12.10b Text...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Contemporary Literature: Contemporary Nonfiction
This lesson is an introduction to contemporary nonfiction including the definition, types of nonfiction: biographies, autobiographies, memoirs, essays, speeches, and diaries, examples of authors and types, key terms, essential questions,...