Chapter 4: Memoirs - Lecture Slides | ENGL 110C, Study notes of Grammar and Composition

Download Chapter 4: Memoirs - Lecture Slides | ENGL 110C and more Study notes Grammar and Composition in PDF only on Docsity! Memoirs Chapter 4 Writing Today Memoir Involve more that an author sharing his or her memories. It explores and reflect on a central them or question. They invite readers to explore and reflect with the narrator to try to unravel the deeper significance or the recounted events. Memoir Diagram Introduction: SETS THE SCENE  Description of a complication  Evaluation of the complication  Resolution of the complication Conclusion: What the writer learned See Text Pages 38 & 39 Binky and Toodles: A Frontier Saga  By Alisa Harris Inventing your Memoir’s Content Finding an interesting topic Finding out what you already know  Map of the scene  Storyboard of the event  Record your story as a podcast or video  Do some role playing Evaluating and Resolving the Complication , phe evaluation , Phe resolution Concluding with a Point Choosing an Appropriate Style Evoking an appropriate tone Using dialogue  To further the story  Write the way your character speaks  Trim the extra words  Identify who is talking  Create unique voices for characters Group Assignment Read Words of My Youth by Joe Mackall on page 53 & 54 Memoir about growing up in the suburbs. Complete questions 1 and 2 on page 54 (a closer look at Words of My Youth)