September 20, 2010

1. Bell-Ringer:  Select a prompt from the long-list of prompts in your composition book and write 1/2 page about it.
2. More memoir examples.
3. In your composition book:  Qualities/Traits of an Effective Memoir

• enough detail
• sensory detail
• descriptive words
• similes and metaphors
• (emotions)
• length is not too long and not too short
• effective titles
• what else? 

4.  About ARMS

Add
Remove
Move
Substitute

using your eyes and ears to revise 

Next time we'll finish typing the memoir.


Schedule for memoir:
September 10 -- Type and print a draft.
September 14 peer review -- revision
September 16 -- Revise in computer lab.
September 22 -- Final revisions and editing in computer lab -- ready  to hand in.