New Directions in Teaching Memoir: A Studio Workshop Approach - Softcover

Kirby, Dan; Kirby, Dawn Latta

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9780325006680: New Directions in Teaching Memoir: A Studio Workshop Approach

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ISBN 10: 0325006687 ISBN 13: 9780325006680

Publisher: Heinemann, 2007

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Students want to do work that's meaningful to them. As their teacher, you can support secondary writers as they learn about the writing process, but you can also offer them something greater: an opportunity to tell their own story and to mold it into an artful work of memory. When students read and write memoir, they explore their lives with pen and paper, make connections to the lives of others, and often discover something deeply personal and surprisingly universal in their writing and their lives. New Directions in Teaching Memoir demonstrates how to teach this evocative genre and shows you the power it holds for students and for instruction. More than merely personal narrative or family stories, memoir engages students because it emphasizes the importance of students own stories, feelings, and ideas. It also provides numerous opportunities for instruction in revision, editing, and craft. Dan and Dawn Latta Kirby present a unique way to introduce students to memoir and an in-depth instructional approach they have developed over time - the studio workshop. The studio approach takes the key attributes of fine-arts studio classrooms, and applies them to writing instruction to help transform your classroom into a more disciplined, guided, interactive, and authentic environment that supports risk taking for writers and gives you opportunities to coach students one-on-one. New Directions in Teaching Memoir also contains all the important tools you'll need to succeed with memoir, including:

what the process of composing a memoir looks like
extensive suggestions for responding to and evaluating student work, including reproducible rubrics and handouts
ideas for supporting students' efforts by incorporating memoir into your literature curriculum
numerous examples of student work
the artistic importance of presentational features, including style and format
new versions of memoir especially designed for student writers.

Read New Directions in Teaching Memoir and make memoir a meaningful part of your curriculum today.

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About the Author:

Dan Kirby is the coathor of New Directions in Teaching Memoir (2007), Inside Out, Third Edition (2004), and Mind Matters (1991). A former high school English teacher, Dan recently retired after more than thirty years of university teaching at the University of Georgia, the University of Central Florida, the University of Arizona, and the University of Colorado at Denver.

Dawn Latta Kirby is the coauthor of New Directions in Teaching Memoir (2007) and Inside Out, Third Edition (2004). A former high school English teacher as well as a department chair, she taught college classes in English methods, young adult literature, qualitative research methods, and writing in Colorado, Georgia, Texas, Florida, and Arizona. She is currently Professor of English and English Education at Kennesaw State University, where she directs the Kennesaw Mountain Writing Project.

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