Memoirs-Day 6 Please record the below definition in your notes. A memoir is a type of autobiographical expression in which the narrator describes a significant.

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Memoirs-Day 6 Please record the below definition in your notes. A memoir is a type of autobiographical expression in which the narrator describes a significant event.

INTRODUCTION The introduction to your memoir should grab the reader’s attention by using a narrative lead The story starts in the middle of the action. Setting, characters, and conflict should be revealed in the beginning.

Narrative Leads Action: A main character is doing something. Dialogue: A character or characters are speaking. Reaction: A character is thinking. Hook: An alarming detail that will grab any reader’s attention Incident: The narrator implies that an unpleasant event has occurred. Character: The narrator inserts curiosity about a character.

Narrative Lead: Action I gulped my milk, pushed away from the table, and bolted out of the kitchen, slamming the broken screen door behind me. I ran to our dock as fast as my legs could carry me. My feet pounded on the old wood, hurrying me toward my dad’s voice. “Ryan!” he bellowed again.

Narrative Lead: Dialogue “Ryan! Get down here on the double!” Dad bellowed. His voice sounded far away. “Dad?” I hollered. “Where are you?” I squinted through the screen door but couldn’t see him. “I’m down on the dock. MOVE IT. You’re not going to believe this,” he replied.

Narrative Lead: Reaction I couldn’t imagine why my father was hollering for me at 7:00 in the morning. I thought fast about what I might have done to get him so riled. Had he found out about the way I talked to my mother the night before when we got to camp and she asked me to help unpack the car? Did he discover the fishing reel I broke last week? Before I could consider a third possibility, Dad’s voice shattered my thoughts.

Narrative Lead: Hook My name is Francis Joseph Tremenari and I have just returned to Philadelphia. The war is over and I have lost half of my face.

Narrative Lead: Incident This is a story I would rather not tell. It is a stick caught in my throat, gagging me, choking its way up, and now I’m stuck with it. I don’t want to tell it, but Hirsch says I must, and Hirsch is my doctor. He says there is healing in telling, telling even the worst. But what he doesn’t understand is that I don’t want to get well. So, there, now I’ve said it.

Narrative Lead: Character The year started out pretty smooth. Probably would have ended up that way, too, if Becky had stayed around or if I hadn’t quit the football team and made myself look like the jerk of the century, though I still say quitting was the only thing I could do, and I wouldn’t change that.

What should my story look like? Read “Splash Mountain” with your group and pick out on thing you believe is essential to make this story work. Also, choose one thing that could make it better or it is missing. (Recorder should record this) (4 mins)

Exit Ticket Please complete the poll on edmodo in which you decide which lead you would use or think would be the best to use for a lead into your own story.