Decisions that Matter

The purpose of a Memoir is to explain something important  in your life or yourself.

• True
• False

Why does someone write a memoir?

• To tell their whole life story
• To tell how they were feeling when they experienced a certain event
• To tell retell a story someone told them

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Writers use _____________ -they they saw, heard, touched, smelled, and tasted. 

• sensory details
• main ideas
• pictures
• mood

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CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

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CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

What is the point of view that a personal narrative uses?

• 3rd person view
• bird's eye view
  bird's eye view
• 1st person view
• narrator's view

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CCSS.RL.6.6

What is a Memoir?

• an account of a person's life written by that person.
• An account of a memorable event in a persons life
• an account of someone's life written by someone else.
• a spoken or written account of connected events; a story.

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CCSS.RI.11-12.10

CCSS.RI.6.10

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A memoir should be written in first person

• True
• False

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Covers a part of a person's life rather than all of it

• Autobiography
• Biography
• Memoir
• Personal Narrative

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A nonfiction account in which the author tells the true events that make up the life a real individual other than himself.

• Memoir
• Autobiography
• Biography
• Prose

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CCSS.RI.11-12.10

CCSS.RI.6.10

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I, me, my, we, us are examples of what point of view?

• 1st person
• 2nd person
• 3rd person

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CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.1.6

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

The author is the subject

• Autobiography
• Biography
• Both
• Neither

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CCSS.RI.11-12.10

CCSS.RI.6.10

CCSS.RI.7.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RI.9-10.10