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Autobiographical Genres

Autobiographical Genres. Memoir Autobiography Biography Personal Narrative. Autobiography. Long story of ones life History of a lifetime – Must cover entire life Most important facts and events of someone’s life Contains anecdotes, memories, trips and cherished moments

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Autobiographical Genres

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  1. Autobiographical Genres Memoir Autobiography Biography Personal Narrative

  2. Autobiography • Long story of ones life • History of a lifetime – Must cover entire life • Most important facts and events of someone’s life • Contains anecdotes, memories, trips and cherished moments • The person is writing about himself • 1st person point of view • I, me, my, we, • Not always necessary to read in order

  3. Biography • Long story of ones life • History of a lifetime – Must cover entire life • Most important facts and events of someone’s life • Lots of research involved • Contains anecdotes, memories, trips and cherished moments • Is about another person • 3rd person point of view • They, she, she • Not always necessary to read in order

  4. Personal Narrative • Short Autobiographical Essay • Focus is on a particular event in a person/writer’s life • 1st person • Uses imagery and sensory details to express emotions that place the reader in the personal experience • Characteristics of Fiction • Must read in order • Theme or Moral the reader will imply

  5. Memoir • Autobiographical writing • Captures multiple highlighted or meaningful moments in one’s past • Significant aspects of those moments, are centered around a life changing event. • Much more emotional and connects the writer to someone or something that had and impact on their life.

  6. Characteristics a Memoir • 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

  7. 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

  8. Characteristics aPersonal Narrative • Focus on a single important event (short • Narrative structure (storytelling elements like setting, plot, imagery, characterization, foreshadowing/flashback, and irony and symbolism) • 1st person point of view • Fictional quality • Told as a story reflecting on the author’s experience, feelings and personality

  9. Characteristics an Autobiography • Covers the author’s entire life • Includes other people and events important to them • Retrospective • Nonfiction quality • Emotional elements are not as prevalent in the story • 1st person point of view

  10. Why we read Autobiographies, Memoirs and Personal Narratives… • BECAUSE GOOD READERS… • Make connections • Question • Visualize • Infer • Synthesize • …and these things expose essential truths and help us evaluate our own lives and the world around us!

  11. Good Readers • Make connections to books or works they read by: 1. Connect books they read by connecting it to another book (text-to-text) 2. Connect to something in their own life (text to self)

  12. Writer’s Journal • What is your happiest family vacation or outing memory? Where were you? Who was there and how has it made an impact on your life? • Blue print • Diagram of the location 20 pts • 4 panel memories from that day 20pts • 4 paragraph memoir 40 pts • Decoration of the back of the blueprint 20pts

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