Memoir 1

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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CCSS.RI.11-12.10

CCSS.RI.6.10

CCSS.RI.7.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RI.9-10.10

A narrative tells...

• a problem
• a story
• facts
• details

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CCSS.RI.7.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RL.6.10

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.8.10

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

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Writing with dialogue...
Quotation marks are placed on both sides of a direct quote.
True or False? 

• True
• False

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

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

A personal narrative is about...

• someone else's life
• a small moment in your life
• a bird's eye view
• your family

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CCSS.RI.6.10

CCSS.RI.7.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RL.6.10

CCSS.RL.7.10

A personal narrative should NOT include

• your emotions
• good details
• only one detail
• a setting

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CCSS.RI.6.10

CCSS.RI.7.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.8.10

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

CCSS.RI.7.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RI.9-10.10

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

• Autobiography
• Biography
• Memoir
• Personal Narrative

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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

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