Today you will be grading / evaluating portions of memoirs.
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- Make a copy of this document and name it ____(per) ____name grading memoirs
- Spend 10 minutes reading through the partial memoirs below by yourself.
- Find a partner and grade each memoir using the grading scale below and give 5 -8 comments on each memoir justifying your grade. To make comments, hit CNTRL + ALT + M or go to insert comment.
- You and your partner may work on the same document, but you each have to make comments on the document.
Sample comments are in the document and the 8 memoirs you are grading are below the comments in the document.
Memoirs should be done by Monday, October 3, 2016 at the beginning of class.
Final Rubric - please cut and paste the rubric portion into your paper.
1. Homework - Editing your memoir
- In Purple - add 3 reflective statements to your memoir (3-5)
- list 5 things you want to describe more descriptively in your memoir (use lists, references to a memory giving backstory, cultural or historical allusions, uncommon descriptions that give your reader pause)
- In Blue - 5 sections ( a couple of sentences) of Sensory details
- Emotions - what 3 emotions did you experience during the event and where do you show this?
We will begin writing groups to help improve our own and each other's writing.
2. As you read your group member’s paper, add 2 places where they could reflect (show insight, emotion, realizations)
Use one of the following comments in the document to help them add specific reflection
Add what you liked about a line, or description that they should keep doing
Now add 2 questions where they can expand their description with sensory details
Emotions List
Discuss the rubric with your co-pilot. What elements do you have?
Attribute of memoir writing
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1. Structure: An interesting introduction captures attention. Events in the narrative (story) are logically organized and clearly described.
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2. Language: Strong dialogue or description draws the reader into the story. The writer includes sensory details, figurative language, and strong verbs, and dialogue that reveal the feelings and thoughts behind the experience.
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3. Reflection: The writer acknowledges the significance of the incident directly or indirectly that reveal the insights and emotions associated with the event.
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4. Written consistently in the first person. Is free from grammar/spelling errors.
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5. Is 700-800 words in length
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2. Flashback: Takes the reader back to the moment/experience/ feeling in the past
slow down time and bring the reader into the experience
Flashback:
- I remember when...
- There was once a time when I...
- It was 2011 when...
- Later that day...
- As the days passed...
- Now that time has passed it's clear...
3. Reflection - Make a copy of this document (you have to be logged in to your sandi.net to view this)
or make copy of this document Reflection
With your co-pilot..... Look at the examples of reflection.
Write a definition of reflection in your notebook.
Write down 5 words or phrases that tell you the author is reflecting from the examples.
Memoir needs an element of reflection that explains how this event changed the writer's thoughts. This is significance. What did you learn from the experience. These realizations can be direct, telling your reader your insight, or indirect, slow realizations that something is happening and being learned. These help readers relate to your experience even if they haven't had the same exact experience.
- Direct - telling your reader what you learned at the end
- Indirect - sprinkling observations about yourself, other people, life, the world THROUGHOUT the memoir
Try some of these sentence starters to help you reveal the significance in your memoir:
- In hindsight...
- Today, I am…
- Now that the years have passed, it is clear...
4. Add moments of reflection in your own memoir
Examples of good organized description, ready for more reflection
The Ocean 2nd draft
The Italian Journey
