Lesson overview

Introduction
Story - Recount
Middle years and up
drill and practice
memoir
style
voice
creating suspense
tension
routine
memory
explaning significance
metaphor
contradiction
contrast
character relationships
describing characters
big life events
Every day rewrite an example of memoir text. Snippet-a-Day lessons provide one snippet per page, with minimal commentary. They are perfect as class warm-ups before a lesson. This lesson presents short snippets form a variety of memoir texts—including Tina Fey, David Sedaris and Roald Dahl.