Six-Word Memoirs
Six-word memoirs are a great way for a student to think of an important place, person, experience, or object that has payed a huge role in their life and write a six-word memoir of it. So basically, to “summarize your life story in six words” (Saunders & Smith, 2014). My six-word memoir is about the beach. The beach is a place where I have so many memories with family and friends who have shaped me into who I am today. It’s a place where I am always relaxed and have no worries. The beach is a place that has been a part of my life and will be the place that I live when I leave Boone.
This website has multiple examples of Six-Word Memoirs that teachers can pull from and has different topics to choose from. Click HERE to visit the website.
Textbook Amy Krouse Rosenthal and Brown Girl Dreaming
Your Turn Lesson
This Your Turn Lesson is adapted from Building Content Through Showing, Not Telling (Dorfman, Cappelli, & Hoyt, 2017, p. 104). This lesson is based around how individuals can express emotions through writing without stating the emotion they are writing about. The mentor text used for this lesson is Those Shoes by Maribeth Boelts. Click HERE to view the lesson.
Dorfman, L. R., Cappelli, R., & Hoyt, L. (2017). Mentor texts: teaching writing through childrens literature, k-6 (2nd ed.). Portland, ME: Stenhouse Publishers.
Saunders, J. M., & Smith, E. E. (2014). Everyone word is on trial: six-word memoirs in the classroom. The Reading Teacher, 67(8), 600–605. doi: 10.1002/trtr.1267
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