AIM: WHAT IS A MEMOIR?

Do Now: Get your writing notebook & write down three

“New Year’s Resolutions”

Your task: Think about a memory and write EVERY detail

you can remember. Use figurative and descriptive language.

You may write about:-A specific event that happened to you.-A specific aspect of your life (for example,

your relationship with your father, your travel through Asia, your struggle to overcome a phobia).

-A particular time period of your life.-The impact on your own life of an outside event (for example, a war, an economic

crisis, your parents' divorce.)