Memoir Basics 3: Adding feelings, judgments, and explanations

About Standards
Introduction
Story - Narrative
Middle years and up
memoir
personal narrative
reflective writing
first person reflection
describing feelings
judgements
explanations
expansion
describing internal world
inner world
figurative language
metaphor
opinions
first person point of view
clarification
first person pov
Purpose
To enrich descriptions of a memorable event by sharing feelings, judgments and explanations.
Description
In this lesson we rewrite simple and complex snippets from a variety of memoirs. In each snippet we look at how the author expands on basic details with feelings, judgments and explanations, and notice how these enrich the recount and make it more meaningful. We use expansions, analytical responses, scaffolded rewrites and one checkpoint pieces.
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