{"id":71345,"date":"2020-04-27T12:06:36","date_gmt":"2020-04-27T16:06:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/?page_id=71345"},"modified":"2020-05-22T15:59:56","modified_gmt":"2020-05-22T19:59:56","slug":"nonfiction-writing-personal-memoir","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/learn\/elementary-home\/elementary-2\/literacy\/literacy-grades-7-8\/writing-2\/non-fiction-writing\/nonfiction-writing-personal-memoir\/","title":{"rendered":"Non-Fiction Writing: Personal Memoir"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-71346\" src=\"http:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/files\/2020\/04\/sun-451441_1920.jpg\" alt=\"Drawing of a cartoon sun with a smiling face.\" width=\"300\" height=\"212\" srcset=\"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/files\/2020\/04\/sun-451441_1920.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/files\/2020\/04\/sun-451441_1920-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/files\/2020\/04\/sun-451441_1920-768x543.jpg 768w, https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/files\/2020\/04\/sun-451441_1920-1024x724.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/files\/2020\/04\/sun-451441_1920-165x117.jpg 165w, https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/files\/2020\/04\/sun-451441_1920-1140x806.jpg 1140w, https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/files\/2020\/04\/sun-451441_1920-945x668.jpg 945w, https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/files\/2020\/04\/sun-451441_1920-750x530.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Non-Fiction Writing<\/h5>\n<h3>Goals<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>review the genre of nonfiction writing using a personal memoir<\/li>\n<li>read an example of a personal memoir and identify characteristics<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>The Learning Task<\/h2>\n<p>Last week our literacy prompts focused on generating our personal writing territoires* or ideas that we can return to for writing inspiration (<a href=\"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/learn\/elementary-home\/elementary-2\/literacy\/literacy-grades-7-8\/heart-maps-idea-generation\/\">heart maps<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/learn\/elementary-home\/elementary-2\/literacy\/literacy-grades-7-8\/sarah-kay-hands-idea-generation\/\">hands<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/learn\/elementary-home\/elementary-2\/literacy\/literacy-grades-7-8\/creating-a-life-map-idea-generation\/\">life map<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/learn\/elementary-home\/elementary-2\/literacy\/literacy-grades-7-8\/awesome-idea-generation\/\">awesome ideas<\/a>) .<\/p>\n<p>This week we will explore different genres of writing beginning with nonfiction. Genre is the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>form<\/strong><\/span> that a piece of writing takes. Each form of writing has its own unique characteristics or traits.<\/p>\n<p>All writing that is not poetry is prose. Prose is writing that is made of sentences and paragraphs. And poetry is made up of lines and stanzas.<\/p>\n<p>Non-fiction writing provides factual information about a subject; often uses exposition but may include narration, description, or persuasion.<\/p>\n<p>A personal memoir is one form of nonfiction writing: <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/14MFsfhjJlUAr_BqlTtEl0ZhmQ-vjSxBuATNYRyxPK1I\/edit?usp=sharing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read about the characteristics of a personal memoir<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here is an example of a personal memoir. Read the personal memoir and identify the unique characteristics of the genre: <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/18RjEyCylNAUxmSJsl3PXjr3Q0SgmperlXxSMHDtVUoo\/edit?usp=sharing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Everything I Ever Learned I Learned in Kindergarten by Robert Fulghum<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>What is an idea from your writing territoires that you may want to develop into a personal memoir?<\/p>\n<p>*term coined by Nancie Atwell<\/p>\n<h3>Daily task! Don\u2019t forget to engage with your Writer\u2019s Notebook: Creating a Place for Reflection<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/learn\/elementary-2\/literacy\/literacy-grades-7-8\/creating-a-place-for-reflection-day-one\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Note: please see the information in this lesson for guidance<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week we will explore different genres of writing beginning with nonfiction. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15985,"featured_media":0,"parent":72749,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71345","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","category-elementary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/71345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15985"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/71345\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/72749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}