Shaping Your Memoir: October 18, 2017

Focus: How do we finding meaning and shape in our memoirs?

1. Warming up with thoughts about your ELIC journals and two choices for those of you who didn't get to conference with me:

• Stop by for a conference during an off hour or after school; write the date and time you're going to come in at the top of your yellow rubric and in your planner, and hand the rubric back to me.

• OR

• Fill out the top of the yellow rubric and hand it in by the end of class.

2. Returning to memoir writing and considering your narrative arc

• Trying it out with Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

• Making sure you've chosen your memoir, labeled it "READ THIS ONE," and placed it inside your Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close Folder.

• Shaping your memoir using the narrative arc; figuring out which scenes still need to be written
• Try to identify your turning point first; the rest of the arc will fall into place.

3. Continuing to structure and draft your memoir/conferencing on your ELIC journals

4. E-mailing me the names of people you'd feel comfortable your memoir with (your choices can also be "anyone" or "no one").

PLEASE TURN IN YOUR YELLOW SHEETS BY THE END OF CLASS IF YOU HAVE NOT YET CONFERENCED WITH ME.

HW:
1. Come in for a conference between 10:10 am and 11:35 am or after school! We can talk about your memoir, your reading journal, your hysteria essay, or whatever you need!

2. Keep working tirelessly on the draft of your memoir. They are due by 3:00 pm on October 27.

PLEASE REMIND YOUR PARENTS THAT I WILL ONLY BE AT CONFERENCES BETWEEN 3:00 AND 5:30.