Tag: memoir
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How to Pick a Lock
Rediscovering wonder in the blank page.
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Moving Mountains with Teaspoons
Accessing memoir through fragments.
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Reading & Critiquing Trauma Memoirs
A trauma-informed approach to workshopping memoir writing.
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How a Spider Web Can Untangle Memoir Writing
The spider web as a helpful tool to map out personal narrative.
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Bats in the Belfry
by Jayden (7th grade)
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Completing the Character Puzzle with Vignettes
A lesson for creating vibrant, well-crafted characters.
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Dear Diary…
Diary Writing as a Vehicle to Explore Experience
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4 Ways of Looking at a Mentor Text
Incidental Comics
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Middle Schoolers as Role Models for Peace
Three writing exercises to foster empathy.
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The Taste of Home
Food-themed poetry with refugee and immigrant students.
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Journal Writing to Define and Defend the Self
Carving Out Space in This New America
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I Am What I Am
A Prompt to Re-imagine Writing Identity
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Alastair Reid
Traveling Light
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Common, Everyday Injustices
Using Claudia Rankine’s 'Citizen' to prompt writing about prejudice.
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Memories and Descriptive Details
David Surface breaks down descriptive writing for second-graders
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Undercovering Students’ Stories
I tell my students that the essay is the gate.
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Personal Narrative Essay
Olivia Birdsall invites students to select a topic for a Cause-Effect/Before-After essay
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Stepping into the Fire
Helping a student write about abuse.
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Roots
Students review the function of roots as taught in their science lessons and connect them to metaphor, their newly learned literary device
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Family Voices
Empowering families through collaborative writing.
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Be in Love with Your Life. Every Detail of It.
Details and Autobiography