Multi genre autobiography

Students read and analyze passages from Having Our Say looking for specific examples of multigenre writing within the text.
The multigenre memoir project is an opportunity for you to discover what it means to read multiple texts and to write in multiple genres as a way to deepen your.
The capstone writing assignment for Mary Cathryn Ricker's seventh-grade class is an autobiographical booklet that includes at least 15 different genres—from.

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Memoir Multigenre Projects

THE FOLLOWING MEMOIR CONTAINS EXPLICIT LANGUAGE AND GRAPHIC DETAILS AS IT IS A TRUE STORY ABOUT LIFE, WHICH IS NOT CENSORED; IT IS NOT INTENDED FOR ANYONE UNDER THE AGE OF 18.

The following are two downloadable attachments of my memoir; they are the same but one is in a book format that I used to create the final product and one is in a simple word format. These are samples of what I would create to share with students as they write their own. Also, the wanted poster genre is attached as it would not go into the word document in the correct format. Included are the following: Cover Page/Book Cover, Table of Contents, Introduction to Memoir/Defense of Memoir, Four Personal Memoirs that Collaboratively make up the Memoir Book, and Four different Genres that Compose and support the stories:

Memoir project book format

Multigenre Memoir project (traditional format)

wanted poster

The following is the multi-genre historical memoir project that I will complete with my students. Included are the following: Invitation, Context of the Lesson, Lesson Plan,

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Multi-Ethnic American Autobiography: Stories of the Self in Society

ENGL 363
Summer 2011

Section: 01

From the journals of Christopher Columbus to the latest best-seller list, first-person narratives have been at the center of literature written in the Americas. This seminar asks why the form of autobiography has been so important to the literary history of the United States. Why do so many authors--from escaped slaves to chroniclers of the most privileged members of society--choose to represent themselves, or a fictive self in the first-person? What is it about the imagined "I" that so attracts readers? In broader terms, what does the prevalence of autobiography say about the culture--and the racial and ethnic politics--of the United States at different moments in history?

Perhaps because autobiography presents a form apparently available to everyone--it crosses many divisions of race, gender, and class. Our readings will provide a way into both these difficult issues and into a number of important aspects of American literature. Our readings wil

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Multigenre Memoir Project

Romano and Allen, leading scholars of multigenre writing, offer the following descriptions:

A multigenre paper arises from research, experience, and imagination. It is not an uninterrupted, expository monolog nor a seamless narrative nor a collection of poems. A multigenre paper is composed of many genres and subgenres, each piece self-contained, making a point of its own, yet connected by theme or topic and sometimes by language, images and content. In addition to many genres, a multigenre paper may also contain many voices, not just the author's. The trick is to make such a paper hang together. (x-xi) from Tom Romano's Blending Genre, Altering Style: Writing Multigenre Papers (2000):

The best way I can describe a multigenre paper is to say that each piece in the paper utilizes a different genre, reveals one facet of the topic, and makes its own point. Conventional devices do not connect the pieces in a multigenre paper, nor are the pieces always in chronological order. The paper is instead a collage of writing and artistic expr