Demo+Instructions

//Memoir: An account of one's personal life and experiences; autobiographical (but in a snapshot sense)//
=Memoir 1=

//Response://
What does the memoir tell you about the writer? What word is most evocative to you? What questions come to mind? I envision your memoir situated in (insert scenario or setting here)

=Memoir 2= If you had but six words to create a snapshot of your personal life or experiences, what six words would you choose? What is the most important thing for you to convey about yourself today? ONCE YOU GET A FEW IDEAS ON THE PAGE, SELECT THE ONE THAT SPEAKS TO YOU MOST. PLAY WITH THE WORDS. MANIPULATE THEM UNTIL YOU ARRIVE AT THE MEANING YOU WANT TO EVOKE.

=Drafting your //This I Believe// essay=

Revisit the free write you did yesterday after you listened to Tarak McLain's Thirty Things I Believe, as well as, the memoirs you wrote today. Does a common vain emerge? Is there a belief that yearns to be written? Take 15 minutes to begin drafting your //This I Believe// essay; be aware of the story that emerges and the description that forms.