1. Capitalization and Memoir 9/8
Learning Objective: Can I use specific word choice to write autobiographically?
Welcome Work:
Take out a piece of paper and label it with the heading.
Put your NOVEL and your re-written OER on your desk.

2. BINDER ORGANIZATION!

3. Week 3 Vocabulary
From a BOOK!

4. Is it a noun? Adjective? Adverb?

5. Why do we bother with grammar?
Turn to your neighbor and discuss:
Do you like learning about grammar?
What do you know about grammar?
Do you think it’s important we learn about it?

6. Grammar Pre-Test Results

7. Grammar Mini-Lesson: Capitalization
Grammar & Vocabulary

9. What is a memoir?

10. Writing a six-word memoir...
In November 2006, writer and editor Larry Smith issued a challenge to fans of his Web publication, SMITH Magazine.
Inspired by Ernest Hemingway's legendary shortest of short stories ("For sale: Baby shoes, never worn"), Smith asked his readers to describe their lives in six words. The Six-Word Memoir contest officially ended after a month, but the stories kept coming.
Five years on, participants have contributed more than half a million mini-memoirs. Smith has published five compilations of the intensely personal accounts and continues his online quest to spark the creativity of aspiring writers.
"There is inspiration everywhere," he says. "Even if you don't think you're a storyteller, you are."

13. Rubric

14. Writing a six-word memoir...
In order to narrow down a life into six words, a writer needs to begin with many words and ideas.
Follow these instructions to complete a six-word memoir.

15. Start with a list
List as many words, topics, memories, or personality traits as you can about yourself – activities you do, items, belongings, places you like, and feelings you have.
Don’t edit, cross out, change, or rewrite words. Don’t worry about spelling –
just write.
You are going for quantity, so write as much as you can in about three minutes. You should fill at least one full page.

16. OR

19. My passport trumps your Harvard diploma.

20. Example list:
Singer, writer, happy, tired, overworked, camping, colorful, shoes, sea shore, dragons, faeries, teacher, Spanish, Internet, laughing, cartoons, 70s, rock music, Jeep, teddy bears, church, baths, jingles, gum, crayons, super heroes, technology, legos, reading, Saturday morning, dancing, weight lifting, Ziggy, more shoes, sunrises, mother, daughters, snakes, dogs, mythology, thinking, dreamer, fries…

21. Now, circle the two or three words that stand out for you, the ones that you could say more about.

22. HOMEWORK: Due Wednesday, September 10th: Vocabulary Wkst.
Capitalization Wkst.
6 Word Memoir