6-WORD MEMOIRS

Advanced Curricular Topics (A.C.T.) – 7th Grade Push-In

Mrs. Leslie

Memoir

from French word for “memory”

genre of literaturesubclass of autobiography

However…

Memoir

A memoir is NOT about an entire life like an autobiography.

Memoir

It should be about a moment in time, an event, an experience – especially one during your 7th grade year.

Jordan Murphy age 13

Wishing for home.

It’s NOT here.

Laughterwith friends is my therapy. - Hope Green,12

Memoir

OR you can decide to look at your life right now through a “lens”.

Examples: lucky, lonely, silly, disorganized, hectic

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-Michael Hebert, age 13

Dante: lost in space without paper

Dante Castañeda,12

Memoir

“METAPHOR” EXAMPLES Make it a metaphor comparing your life

to something else.

Use pictures and words to show more than one meaning.

Never give up just keep

climbing

Alex Woodruff

12