I’m starting my blog just as I did each year in my classroom, with vulnerability.  While teaching high school English, I began each school year with a memoir unit.  I wanted to build my students’ confidence in writing from the get-go.  In addition, I used this unit as an opportunity to get to know them as individuals.  We tackled the elements of narrative writing, while looking at examples from authors, like Sandra Cisneros, Eudora Welty, and Annie Dillard.  I read them the children’s book, Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge, by Mem Fox to make the point about just how special memories…

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