Snippet-a-Day Memoir 02

About Standards
Introduction
Story - Recount
Middle years and up
drill and practice
memoir
style
voice
memory
explaining significance
contrast
character relationships
describing characters
big life events
Purpose
Practise studying the patterns and details in a snippet, and applying the same style to new content.
Description
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 Bill Bryson and Frank McCourt.
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