Thurs. 1/21/16

Learning Target:

• List possible topics for writing a memoir

Work Collected:

• None

Work Assigned/Handed Out:

• Read for at least 30 mins.

Summary of Class:

• Read for ten minutes, then check in to your reading progress spreadsheet
  
• Quick Google search: what is a memoir? (This will be our next writing assignment.)
• Brainstorming in the writing section of your notebook:
1. Two hands (see pictures below--categories in fingers, ideas listed around each)
2. Choose from prompts:
• Write about a person who you love.
• What was your favorite activity when you were a young child?
• Write about the time you made a new friend.
• Write about your favorite summer memory.
• Write about a scar or injury you suffered.
• Write about a school trip or camp you attended.
• Write about a contest or competition you participated in.
• What holiday traditions or family traditions do you have? Describe them.
• Write about the scariest thing that has happened to you.
• Write about the funniest thing that has happened to you?
• Write about one of your favorite childhood memories.
• Write about one of you favorite places. Why do you love it so much?
• Share out some ideas in small groups and whole class