Writing A Memoir Worksheet
After reading each passage, students describe what makes it a memoir. Creative Writer Worksheet - Writing Memoirs (PDF) This week's worksheet is for the memoirists among us - those writers whose lives are their masterpiece. Decide what the theme of the story is. Overview: For this writing assignment, you will be the author of a highly. Don't worry about spelling - just write. Or is that every one of us, after all? "How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live" - Henry David Thoreau. Students get to know this nonfiction genre, different from an autobiography, through a series of excerpts from the memoirs of Gertrude Stein, Winston Churchill, and Henry David Thoreau. Subjects: Creative Writing, English Language Arts, Writing. Don't cross out, change, or rewrite anything. This file includes the key traits of a memoir, a writing prompt, graphic organizers, revising worksheets, and a rubric for writing a memoir.