Memoir Basics 1: What's in a memoir?
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Standards

Introduction
Story - Narrative
Middle years and up
memoir
first person reflection
reflective writing
story themes
- Purpose
- To indroduce key features of memoirs.
- Description
- In this lesson we rewrite snippets from a range of memoirs. We look at the key features of a memoir, such as first person reflective writing and recognising story themes in personal narratives. Students produce four assisted rewrites and one checkpoint piece.