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
- 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.