Shaping texts
Subtitle: from essay and narrative to memoir
By: Lucy Calkins and  Alexandra Marron ; Photography by Peter Cunningham
Contributors: Marron, Alexandra, author; Chiarella, Mary, author
Publisher: Firsthand, an imprint of Heinemann
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Portsmouth, NH
Language: eng
Number of pages: 162
ISBN-13: 9780325047423
Subjects: Essay; First person narrative; Composition and exercises; Authorship; English language; Study and teaching (Elementary)
Notes: "Grade 5, Unit 3, memoir"--Cover.
Table of contents: title: What makes a memoir?; title: Interpreting the comings and goings of life; title: Writing small about big topics; title: Reading literature to inspire writing; title: Choosing a seed idea; title: Expecting depth from our writing; title: Studying and planning structures; title: The inspiration to draft; title: Becoming your own teacher; title: Revising the narrative portion of a memoir; title: Editing for voice; title: Seeing again, with new lenses : interpreting your own story; title: Flast-drafting; title: Revising the expository portions of a memoir; title: Reconsidering the finer points; title: Rereading your draft and drawing on all you know to revise; title: Metaphors can convey big ideas; title: Editing to match sound to meaning; title: An author's final celebration : placing our writing in the company of others.