01740cam a2200265 4500 1396143886 TxAuBib 20240711120000.0 050429s2005||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2005012488 9780325006468 pbk. : acid-free paper 0325006466 pbk. : acid-free paper (OCoLC)60311785 TxAuBib Bomer, Katherine. Writing a life : teaching memoir to sharpen insight, shape meaning-- and triumph over tests / Katherine Bomer. Portsmouth, NH : Heinemann, 2005. xiv, 209 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-209). Why teach memoir? : reasons that will change your teaching and your life -- Week-by-week plans : a map to guide you through a genre study in memoir -- How to read memoir to learn to write it : essential structures and provocative questions for discussion -- Rafting down rivers of memory : getting ideas going in the memoirist's notebook -- Making meaning of memories : selecting, collecting, and layering -- Shaping the story : dozens of possibilities for structure -- Recognized lives : secrets for successful conferring with children writing memoir (and a "cheat sheet" just in case) -- Revising a text, revising a life : five sledgehammers and nineteen nails for making the memoir even better -- Answering test prompts by drawing on best memoir writing. 20240711. Autobiography Study and teaching. Biography as a literary form Study and teaching. http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0512/2005012488.html