Intro to Memoir Unit: Autobiography, Biography, Memoir

Poll

How much does your past affect your present?

• Not at all. The things that have happened in my life have had no effect on who I am today.

• A little. Some things have stuck with me and shaped me and other things have not.

• A lot! So many of the things I've had to go through in my life have shaped who I am, what struggles I have, and what I believe in.

Welcome to the Memoir Unit

1. Determine how important events or experiences in your life have shaped you

2. Use techniques to tell your life story in a powerful and engaging way
   

This unit will teach you how to. . .

Welcome to the Memoir Unit

By the end of this unit, you will . . .
1. Learn to distinguish between an autobiography, biography, and memoir
2. Read and analyze 3 memoirs to determine what techniques authors use in memoirs
3. Create a playlist of your life and write 10 micro-memoirs

​You will be making a playlist of your life and writing 10 micro-memoirs

Learning Targets

1. I can reflect on how my past affects my present.
2. I can explain how a biography, autobiography, and memoir are similar and different.

AUTO

SELF

AUTOMOBILE AUTOMATIC

Multiple Choice

Given this word family, what do you think the root auto mean?

• Autograph
• Automobile
• Autobiography

• self

• one

• before

• water

BIO

LIFE

BIOLOGY ANTIBIOTIC

Multiple Choice

Which root word means "life"?

• bio

• graph

• meter

• pent

GRAPH

WRITE

Calligraphy Biography

Multiple Choice

What root means writing?

• Port

• Graph

• Miss/Mit

• Ped

Open Ended

What Latin roots do you see in the word AUTOBIOGRAPHY?

Open Ended

If AUTO means "self" and "bio" means life and graph means "write," what does the word autobiography mean?

Multiple Choice

How is an autobiography different from a biography?

• An autobiography is when you write about your own life. A biography is when you write about someone else's life.

• A biography is when you write about your own life. An autobiography is when you write about someone else's life.

Multiple Choice

How is a memoir different from an autobiography?

• A memoir focuses on a specific period of a person's life, and an autobiography does not.

• A memoir is written by the person telling their story, and an autobiography is not.

Multiple Choice

This book was written by a girl named Malala to describe the time in her life when she was attacked by a terrorist group and stood up to them.

It is a . . .

• Autobiography

• Memoir

• Biography

Multiple Choice

This book was written by the author and attempts to tell the whole story of the author's life.

• Autobiography

• Memoir

• Biography

Multiple Choice

This book was written by a man named Ron Chernow about the entire life of Alexander Hamilton.

It is a . . .

• Biography

• Autobiography

• Memoir

Poll

How well can you explain the difference between an autobiography, biography, and memoir?

• 1 - I don't understand

• 2. 2 - I understand some but enough

• 3 - I understand

• 4 - I understand this so well that I could teach it