Memoir writing lesson plans

Use this Study com lesson to teach your students about memoirs, then ask students to analyze word choice and purpose of memoirs at interactive stations

Review identified memories carefully

Select only memories that are relevant to the specific theme of your essay

Memories that are not directly related can be saved for a different story

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It is important to include research in the planning and organizing phase of writing a memoir

Memoir recognizes and explores moments on the way to growing up and becoming oneself, the good moments and the bad ones

It distills the essence of the experience through what the writer includes and more importantly, through what a writer excludes

Memoir celebrates people and places no one else had ever heard of