6th+Period+Only+12.04.13

SSR: 20 min -go back over King piece, annotations **-what is memoir**: define -free-write/warm-up: injury, humorous, embarrassing memory, or first memory; write at least two. PAIR SHARE! Share favorite sentence or segment, bring us in **Hooks**: find and discuss effectiveness, share opening lines of other stories read openings and vote for the best: what is our favorite? Why? What elements do they include? What brings us in? what makes us want to keep reading? -Go back and write new hooks, group share **Homework**: write your own obituary/celebration of your life Craft your own obituary. Approach this less as morbid, and more as a celebration of yourself and what you’ve done in life thus far. What details would you include about yourself? How would you describe your experiences? What aspects of your character are most important and relevant? In at least a half a page in your journal, you must use:
 * First person
 * Strong description to show the reader what is happening
 * Author shares their thoughts and feelings about the experience
 * Dialogue
 * There is a lesson, a “so what”
 * -elements of craft: **


 * At least two examples of each of the following: physical detail, material detail, emotional detail
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">At least two examples of the “he/she is the type of person who…”structure

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">*You might combine the two requirements <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> Ms. Phillips was a lover and advocate of stray animals and will be leaving behind a loving family of two rescued ginger cats and a German Shepherd dog. She was also quite passionate about the power of the written word, having more books than was probably decent for one person to have and spending more time reading them than she would ever have cared to admit. She was the type of person who would much rather have been curled up on her couch with a cozy cat, a steamy cup of tea, and an enticing novel that out at a noisy party with too many people. At the time of her death at the age of 92, Ms. Phillips had cultivated a brilliant career as a high-school English teacher, traveled to many different countries including but not limited to Ireland, Mongolia, Tibet, Nepal, France, Haiti, and Kenya, walked across Spain, swam in almost every ocean, and designed and built her own house. She was very involved in education wherever she went and often traveled in order to help communities all over the world develop sustainable, local economies. She loved to travel and was excited about exposing herself to all kinds of people and new experiences in order to be a better global citizen. She was the type of traveler who went without an agenda and instead loved to just wonder and find opportunities to meet new people, always having a good book on hand for quiet, solitary moments. She was also a lover of music will be leaving behind quite an extensive record collection that spanned many genres and eras; she will be leaving these records to her older sister, who has always been jealous of them.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; line-height: 1.5;">Example: **