Memoir: An account of one's personal life and experiences; autobiographical (but in a snapshot sense)
Memoir 1
Write a six-word memoir that provide an account of your personal life and experience as a teacher, mentor, coach or parent ORas a student, learner, apprentice or child
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.
Memoir: An account of one's personal life and experiences; autobiographical (but in a snapshot sense)
Memoir 1
Write a six-word memoir that provide an account of your personal life and experience as a teacher, mentor, coach or parent OR as a student, learner, apprentice or child
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.