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8th Grade Language Arts
Agenda:
1. Grammar Test
2. Independent Reading
3. Writing Workshop
Assignments:
-Questions for Memoirists/Memoir
worthy experiences (TH)
- Vocab Writing (F)
-comment to 2 students'
responses (F)

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Memoirs
BAD MEMOIRS
• lack of heart
• experience doesn't intrigue the writer
• no itch to find out how and what a
memory signifies in a writer's life
• empty and flat
• a string of events laid end­to­end in
narrative form
• "and then we did this and then we did
that and it was all so much fun"
• Safe, superficial topics
• "The Time I Went to Disney World"
• "My Summer Camp"

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QUESTIONS FOR MEMOIRISTS
MEMOIR WORTHY EXPERIENCES

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“Most of the basic material a writer works
with is acquired before the age of fifteen.”
-Willa Cather