Review: Unit 7

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Review Unit 7

• Memoir
• Autobiography
• Biography
• Personal Narrative

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Autobiography

• Writer is the subject
• Written from 1st person point of view
• Describes the subjects thoughts, feelings,
  opinions about his/her life
• Based mostly on details from the subjects own
  memories
• Non-fiction

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Biography

• History of a lifetime Must cover entire life
• Most important facts and events of someones life
• Contains anecdotes, memories, trips and cherished
  moments
• Written from 3rd person point of view
• Information from many sources
• Non-fiction

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Personal Narrative

• Focus is on a particular event in a
  person/writers life
• Written from 1st person point of view
• Tells a story about real people events
• Short, non-fiction work usually dealing with one
  subject
• Autobiographical essay
• Non-fiction

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Memoir

• Autobiographical writing written in first person
• Captures certain highlights or meaningful moments
  in ones past
• Contemplation of the meaning of that event at the
  time of the writing of the memoir
• Much more emotional and connects the writer to
  someone or something that had an impact on their
  life
• Often gives historical information about the
  society culture of the time

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Characteristics of the MemoirForm

• Focus on a brief period of time or series of
  related events
• Narrative structure (storytelling elements like
  setting, plot, imagery, characterization,
  foreshadowing/flashback, and irony and symbolism
• Retrospective
• Fictional quality
• Higher emotional level/more personal
  reconstruction of the events and their impact

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Memoirs Another perspective

• Explores an event or series of related events
  that remain lodged in memory
• Describes the events and then shows, either
  directly or indirectly why they are significant
• WHY do you STILL remember them?
• Focused in time (not long)
• Focuses on problem/conflict and its resolution
  and why the resolution is significant in your
  life
• Non-fiction

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Chronological Order (Sequencing)

• The order in which things happen.
• Words that signal chronological order
• before first two years ago
• meanwhile afterwards next
• later then finally
• after that while soon

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Chronological Order Practice

•       Then he went downstairs to eat breakfast. 
  After that, he packed his lunch.  First, he got
  dressed and brushed his teeth.  Marty got up
  early to get ready for school.  Finally, he went
  outside to wait for the bus.  While he ate, he
  studied his spelling words for the spelling test
  he would take at school.   
• This story is difficult to understand because
  it's not in order. Use the signal words to write
  the story in the correct order.

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Correct Sequencing/Chronological Order

• Marty got up early to get ready for school.
  First, he got dressed and brushed his teeth. Then
  he went downstairs to eat breakfast. While he
  ate, he studied his spelling words for the
  spelling test he would take at school.  After
  that, he packed his lunch.  Finally, he went
  outside to wait for the bus.
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Main Idea Supporting Detail

• main idea- (central idea) the most important idea
  about a topic that a writer or speaker conveys.
• It can be the main idea of a paragraph or an
  entire work
• The main idea of a paragraph is the topic
  sentence
• The main idea of an entire work is the thesis
• The main idea may be stated or implied by
  supporting details