{"id":73294,"date":"2020-05-27T16:30:15","date_gmt":"2020-05-27T20:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/?page_id=73294"},"modified":"2020-05-27T16:31:57","modified_gmt":"2020-05-27T20:31:57","slug":"six-word-memoirs","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/learn\/elementary-home\/elementary-2\/literacy\/literacy-grades-7-8\/writing-2\/writing\/six-word-memoirs\/","title":{"rendered":"Six Word Memoirs"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>Writing<\/h5>\n<h3>Goals<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>generate and organize ideas to write a Six Word Memoir<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>The Learning Task<\/h2>\n<p>Ernest Hemingway is an acclaimed and beloved American writer (who once was a columnist for the Toronto Star!) known for his concise and straightforward writing.<\/p>\n<p>Legend has it that Ernest Hemingway was once challenged to write a story in only six words. His response: \u201cFor sale: baby shoes, never worn.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Your turn! View Mr. Francis&#8217;s Grade 8 Class: Six Word Memoirs as inspiration for your thinking about writing your own Six Word Memoir. Then write your own Six Word Memoir.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"SIX WORD MEMOIRS - Mr. Francis&#039;s 8th Grade Class\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NWctgXMTKvI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>To consider when writing a Six Word Memoir:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>a memoir is personal-make the writing about you<\/li>\n<li>begin by \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/learn\/elementary-home\/elementary-2\/literacy\/literacy-grades-7-8\/writing-off-the-page\/\">Writing off the Page<\/a>\u2019 to brainstorm the best words<\/li>\n<li>place six words in the best order-rearrange to determine the best word order<\/li>\n<li>revise!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>How might you enhance your Six Word Memoir with drawings or images?<\/p>\n<h3>Daily task! Don\u2019t forget to engage with your Writer\u2019s Notebook: Creating a Place for Reflection<\/h3>\n<p>Note: please see the information in this lesson for guidance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Legend has it that Ernest Hemingway was once challenged to write a story in only six words. His response: \u201cFor sale: baby shoes, never worn.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15985,"featured_media":0,"parent":72722,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73294","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","category-elementary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/73294","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=73294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/73294\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/72722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}