Lesson overview

Introduction
Story - Recount
Middle years and up
drill and practice
memoir
style
voice
memory
explaining significance
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, 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.