LAST WEEK YOU SETTLED ON AN INDEPENDANT MEMOR to read. You should begin that reading, planning on reading it by December 16. Besides finishing the independent memoir project, you will also be writing a first draft of your memoir essay. And we will begin workshop on those this coming Wednesday.

Monday

Reading "Scars" by David Owen, a memoir about injury. Looking at structure and implicit/explicit theme.
HW: Writing your first memoir. First drafts are due on Wednesday, when we will do some small group peer-editing. I will collect and distribute them on Thursday. You should also be reading your memoir.

Tuesday

We will start by discussing what Owen does in "Scars," and then will read another short memoir sample prior to our memoir workshop.
HW: Revising your memoir; reading your independent memoir. Bring a hard copy to class for some peer-review circles.

Wednesday

Working in small groups of three to read aloud and provide some insight into your memoirs. Have at least 4 hard copies (one for you, three additional ones for student readers).
HW: Final first draft due tomorrow at the start of class. I will scan these at the start of class. SINGLE SIDED. NO STAPLES.

Thursday

Workshop on the memoir assignment. For this round, we will NOT have writers read their essays aloud. So come to class with notes ready to go! I am expecting that we will go through approx. six-eight essays per day.
HW: Reading your independent memoir. Read the next eight essays, preparing feedback.

Friday

We will postpone sentence diagramming until after we've finished this first round of workshops.
HW: Read the next eight essays, preparing feedback.