A Study of Memoir by Amy Arnberg
Reading this article really helped me understand what a memoir is and helped me to kind of see what direction I’d like to go in when I begin my own. Some of the things that really jumped out at me were that in the beginning, she did not define what a memoir was for her students. She gave them a week to discover the meaning and to try to find books that fit the genre. That seemed to work because her students were so enthusiastic about it and it was meaningful to them because they created their own understandings. I also like how she used minilessons to guide her students understanding and conferring to help them along. It was great how the students were asking questions and finding their own answers. It seems that she had a pretty successful experience and that her students not only learned how to write a memoir but to create their own learning.
