8/29 Welcome to week 4

Essential question: How do the elements of memoir show up in different author's texts?

Agenda

 Memoir Jigsaws, Day II

(Periods 5 and 6) Things I can write about...

1. One last meeting with your memoir groups

• Talk to your group about the memoir you read yesterday.
• Make sure everyone in your group can explain it.
• Is it a memoir? Why or why not?
• What is it really about?

English Journal: 

• Open your English Journal. 
• Make a new entry at the top, titled "Jigsaw Day 2, 8/26"

New Groups: 

• I'll be moving you to a new group.
• Add a new entry at the TOP of your EJ with the date. (Stay below the top line). Title it "Jigsaw Day 2, 8/26"
• Make a table in your EJ.  Insert/Table/(5 down and 3 across.) It should look like the one below.

• As you hear about each memoir, make a note about the author's experience.

Once you get back to your seats: 

• Then note the closest similar experience you have had. Try to relate to a time when you had the same feeling even if the situation was different. 

Periods 4 and 5: 

• Create a new heading in your EJ, and title it "Things I can write about 8/29"
• You are going to brainstorm as big of a list as you can of topics that you have something to say about. Watch my example in class.
• You will choose 2-3 of those topics to do a quickwrite of, in you English Journal. 

Reminders:

• First block week of the year this week.