Blog #4: Final Scaffolding Project
Introduction Memoir writing is a form of personal narrative, told from a particular person’s memory, about an important part of that person's life. It is similar to autobiography in that it is factually told from one person’s real experience, but rather than retelling their whole life, memoir focuses on narrower important events. Though told from a real-life perspective, memoir writers may have more flexibility in how to tell their story and which details to include, as memoir is crucially only representing what that person remembers; it is more subjective than nonfiction writing, which might be a more researched and impersonal narrative. The 10th graders I work with have a large unit at the end of their first term of their ELA class that focuses on memoir and autobiography. The lesson outlined here is part of the introduction to the concept, and is particularly meant to help students consider that memoirs can take a variety of formats to best reflect different life experie...