First Draft Memoir

Goal: Writing the first draft of your memoir.

Agenda: 
Read
Release forms
Writing small
How to access your writing prompt
Writing time

Release forms:
You are taking home some photo/video release forms I need back asap.

Writing Small: 

• A short memoir should be about a single incident. 
• The focus should be on one event. 
• You can include a before and after, but keep the focus on the main event. 
• Let me show you some examples.

Writing prompt:

1. A Google Doc for you to write your memoir has already been shared with you!
2. Go to Drive.google.com, and look in the "shared with me" section. 
3. Open the Doc called (period, name, memoir prompt.) Add it to your drive. 
4. DO NOT make a copy of the document. (If it already has your name on it you don't need to make a copy.) You don't need to share it with your teachers either. We already have it. 

Writing time: 

• You may listen to music, but not from your Chromebook. Streaming music slows down the network for everyone else. (Also, if you aren't getting writing done, or if anyone else can hear your music, then your music privilege goes away fast.)
• You may not talk. Writing requires concentration. Please respect your classmates need for a quiet writing space. 
• Write a complete draft, beginning, middle, and end. If you finish early go back through your writing and continue adding details, dialog, and descriptions. 
• You may write about something you already started writing about in your English journal, but write it fresh. Don't copy paste from your EJ. First see how you write the story today. Later you can look back at your EJ to see what you might still want to add. 

Homework: 

• Finish your draft. It does not need to be perfect (yet). It does need to be the whole story. 
• Read: You should have completed your first book by now. You need to finish your second book by 10/4/16. (That's sooner than you think.)
• Open House is Thursday, October 5th. Tell your parents. 
• Return your photo/video release forms tomorrow.