Unit 1: Memoir Review

The choices a writer makes about word choice, sentence structure, organization, figurative language, and details to convey meaning, relate a message, and produce a desired effect on the reader

• Author's Craft

• Chronological

• Diction

• Figurative Language

Tags

CCSS.RI. 9-10.6

CCSS.RI.8.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

CCSS.RL.9-10.6

A narrative or story told in time order

• Author's Craft

• Chronological

• Diction

• Figurative Language

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RI.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

Word choices made by an author (example: palace vs. shack)

• Figurative Language

• Diction

• Chronological

• Author's Craft

Tags

CCSS.RI. 9-10.6

CCSS.RI.11-12.6

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

CCSS.RL.9-10.6

Writing meant figuratively, not literally, and used to make a point or create an an image (includes simile, metaphor, personification)

• Flashback

• Diction

• Figurative Language

• Author's Craft

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

An interruption in the chronological telling of a narrative to go back in time and relate to an earlier event

• Imagery

• Mood

• Flashback

• Diction

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

A form of writing such as memoir, informative text, mystery, correspondence, humor, technical writing, drama, movie script, recipe, song lyrics

• Mood

• Memoir

• Genre

• Author's Craft

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.10

CCSS.RI.6.10

CCSS.RI.7.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RI.9-10.10

Descriptive or figurative language that creates and image or picture in the reader's mind

• Author's Craft

• Diction

• Mood

• Imagery

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Writing genre that is the narrative telling of a true memory by a person who lived it

• Chronological

• Imagery

• Genre

• Memoir

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.10

CCSS.RI.6.10

CCSS.RI.7.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RI.9-10.10

The atmosphere of a narrative created through the setting, tone, and writer's choices, the feeling or emotions evoked in the reader (examples: eerie, lighthearted, tense, sentimental)

• Memoir

• Imagery

• Flashback

• Mood

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

The perspective from which a narrative is told. Memoirs are told in first person, from the perspective of a person who lived the experience. This gives the advantage of walking through the story alongside the author and experiencing each of his or her emotions up close and seeing the events through his or her eyes)

• Setting

• Mood

• Diction

• Point of View

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.10

CCSS.RI.6.10

CCSS.RI.7.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RI.9-10.10