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Title: What is a MEMOIR?


1
What is a MEMOIR?
  • How is it different from an autobiography?

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What is a MEMOIR?
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  • Dane Cook's Memoir of Monopoly
  • Noah's 365 Project for 6 Years

4
Bossypants by Tina Fey
  • Autobiographical comedy about comedian Tina Feys
    life, including her time on SNL.
  • Backcover of book Once in a generation a woman
    comes along who changes everything. TINA FEY is
    not that woman, but she met that woman once and
    acted weird around her.
  • Praise for Bossypants
  • Youd be really pretty if you lost weight.
  • College Boyfriend, 1990
  • Tina Fey is an ugly, pear-shaped, overrated
    troll.
  • - The Internet

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BOSSYPANTS
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  • What is the THEME of the selection?
  • 2. Why is this event important to the author?
    (You may have to infer this.)
  • 3. What is the authors craft? (Literary
    elements, structure and organization, TONE, etc.)
  • 4. What feelings do you have after reading the
    selection? What made this story interesting to
    you?
  • 5. What elements of memoir are present in the
    selection? Cite your evidence.
  • 6. What are the strengths and weaknesses of this
    selection? What elements of this story make it
    unique?

7
Your Memoir Excerpts
  • Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
  • Albom visits with his old professor, Morrie, as
    he battles with ALS (Lou Gehrigs Disease) and
    learns more from him then than he did in class 20
    years before.
  • Finding Fish by Antwone Fisher
  • Fisher was born in prison and then send to live
    in foster care. He eventually ends up with the
    Picketts, who abuse him physically, verbally,
    and sexually. Today hes a producer, director
    and film writer
  • Being Mean from Living Up the Street by Gary
    Soto
  • Growing up in a barrio (poor Mexican American
    neighborhood), Soto had a tough childhood. His
    father died at age five, which only increased his
    familys poverty. In Being Mean, Soto tells of
    the childhood pranks he would pull.

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In your groups
  • Read the memoir assigned to your group. DO NOT
    WRITE ON IT!! Record the title and author of
    your memoir on your handout.
  • As you read your memoir or when finished, answer
    the questions on your handout WITH YOUR GROUP.
  • When everyone in the group is finished reading
    the selected memoir, RAISE YOUR HAND, and you
    will be given another one!
  • You should have three memoirs read by the end of
    class.
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