Lesson overview

Introduction
Story - Recount
Middle years and up
drill and practice
memoir
style
voice
suspense
tension
routine
memory
explaining significance
metaphor
contradiction
contrast
character relationships
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, and you can play Wrotevote or Peer Review after every activity. This lesson presents short snippets from a variety of memoir texts—including Tina Fey, Jeanette Walls and Roald Dahl.