Six Word MEMOIR

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Today we will begin working in your journals.  First and last name should go on the inside cover.  Begin numbering all your pages leaving the very first page blank.  The first page will be your table of contents.





At its core, the six-word memoir teaches us to be concise but also introspective.
  Students have to choose words precisely since they can't waste any. The six-word memoir teaches all of us writers a critical skill: words are valuable and have meaning -- don't waste them. 

Narrative Writing
Sports: “Indiana Player Knows How to Wow a Crowd”

Victor Oladipo, a 6-foot-5 junior who has blossomed from an undervalued recruit into a finalist for the Wooden Award, given to the nation’s top player, has helped Indiana (26-5) win its first outright Big Ten championship since 1993. The team is now in position to nab a No. 1 seed in the N.C.A.A. tournament, and Oladipo is becoming one of the best-known college basketball players in the nation.

Your Task: What six words would you choose if you had only that many to describe Victor Oladipo or tell a part of his story? “Believes in songs all the time”? “Basketball is pure rapture for him”? Play with this article by composing your own for practice, then compose a six-word descriptive piece about another athlete, past or present, famous or not. Think about what skills or personality traits make this person great and try to encapsulate those characteristics in six words that tell a very, very short story.

  


Please visit the following link to find out more about Six Word Memoirs.

 

6 WORD MEMOIRS

Now practice writing you own six (6) word memoir.