Writing a life
Subtitle: teaching memoir to sharpen insight, shape meaning-- and triumph over tests
By: Katherine Bomer.
Publisher: Heinemann
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Portsmouth, NH
Language: eng
Number of pages: 209
Subjects: Autobiography -- Study and teaching.; Biography as a literary form -- Study and teaching.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-209).
Table of contents: title: Why teach memoir? : reasons that will change your teaching and your life; title: Week-by-week plans : a map to guide you through a genre study in memoir; title: How to read memoir to learn to write it : essential structures and provocative questions for discussion; title: Rafting down rivers of memory : getting ideas going in the memoirist's notebook; title: Making meaning of memories : selecting, collecting, and layering; title: Shaping the story : dozens of possibilities for structure; title: Recognized lives : secrets for successful conferring with children writing memoir (and a "cheat sheet" just in case); title: Revising a text, revising a life : five sledgehammers and nineteen nails for making the memoir even better; title: Answering test prompts by drawing on best memoir writing.