Writing Fix
Writing Fix: An I Pod Inspired Writing Lesson: Summertime Inspired Memoirs
By listening and then responding to multiple versions of the song "Summertime," students will understand how songs can convey various moods. Writing about a personal summertime memory, students will try to mimic a mood from one of the...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: "The Giver" and Descriptive Writing
Online lesson plan uses the novel "The Giver," to teach students the importance of writing descriptive memoirs. Students write these descriptions individually after seeing their significance through the reading.
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...
Scholastic
Scholastic: Write It: Memoir
Write It Memoir offers a complete writing workshop to develop your personal story. Search your memory through the brainstorming activities to launch your piece. Draft a map of the memories along with reading other models. As the process...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Memoirs About Pictures & Photographs
This site includes a book review of Roald Dahl's memoir, Boy: Tale of Childhood. A related lesson plan to stimulate the writing of memoir of the young scholars' lives is also included, along with teacher's description of her own piece.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: A Memoir Inspired by Three Truths and a Lie
This is a book review and activity for the picture book "Three Truths and a Lie" by Carlalyn Buchner, a story about an older cousin who bullies his younger cousin with outrageous truths and lies. The activity suggests students write...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Memories Sorted on a Timeline
This is a book review for Marley and Me by John Grogan in which he details events, both good and bad, in his life with his dog Marley. The activity focuses on having students remember and write down experiences in their lives (both good...
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.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Memoirs About Food and Kitchens
In this review, the author discusses Sharon Creech's book entitled Granny Torrelli Makes Soup. A brainstorming activity to prepare learners for descriptive writing is provided. activity about author's voice and word choice follow the...
US National Archives
Essays, Speeches, and Memoirs of Field Marshall Count Helmuth Von Moltke
Published in 1893, this as a collection of English translations of writings and speeches by Helmuth von Moltke the Elder, one of the foremost military strategists of the nineteenth century. Many of the documents in this collection are...
Google
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.
University of North Carolina
Unc: Reminiscences & Memoirs of John H. Wheeler
The full text of John Wheeler's memoirs (478 pages) in which he writes a history of North Carolina by talking about its famous citizens. He has a lengthy section on Richard Dobbs Spaight, Sr. in which he discusses his life and how he...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Childhood Artifacts to Inspire a Narrative
This site contains a book review of Knots in My Yo-yo String: the Autobiography of a Kid, which is a memoir by Jerry Spinelli. A suggested activity is included that asks students to bring in important mementos that the students will...
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...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Exploring and Sharing Family Stories
Writing gets personal when students interview family members in order to write a personal narrative about that person.
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,...
Brigham Young University
Ambulance No. 10: Personal Letters From the Front
Read the actual writings of a member of the ambulance corps during WWI. Includes a number of interesting photos and drawings.
University of Florida
Baldwin Library: Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe (1888). This is the children's classic Robinson Crusoe plus a memoir of the author and an essay on his writings.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Digital Senior Memory Book
Students will design a digital story that will consist of their memories and thoughts from their whole life. After the students finish the digital book, the book will be combined into a digital presentation to be shared at a senior...
Other
The Missouri Review: Homepage
The Missouri Review includes fiction and nonfiction and is provided for by the University of Missouri.
AdLit
Ad lit.org: Reading Discussion Guide: Cures for Heartbreak by Margo Rabb
In Cures for Heartbreak, Margo Rabb writes a fictional account of a 15-year old girl whose mother dies just days after being diagnosed with melanoma; then her father falls ill, too. Using vignettes - many appeared elsewhere as short...
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McGraw Hill
Glencoe Literature Library: "Night" Study Guide [Pdf]
A great resource for students reading Elie Wiesel's memoir, "Night," complete with an author biography, vocabulary lists, brainstorming activities, and thought-provoking writing prompts linked to specific chapters. After reading "Night,"...
First World War
First World war.com: Prose & Poetry Siegfried Sassoon
This brief biography of Sassoon (1886-1967 CE) includes some thoughts about his work and his connection to other writers of the time.
Other
Review of the Monkey Bridge
The writer interviewed Lan Cao about her book. She includes some biographical information in the article as well as discussion of the book.
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