Alpha autobiography featuring

Here is my demo from GNOWP 2007.

Enjoy and let me know if you have any questions!

Dawn

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Alphabiography: A Stepping Stone to Writing Memoir

“Why do I write?

Perhaps in order not to go mad. Or, on the contrary, to touch the bottom of madness. Having survived by chance, I am duty-bound to give meaning to my survival.”

~Elie Wiesel

“Memoirs are the genre of our decade.”

~Lucy Calkins

“A memoir is not what happens, but the person to whom things happen.”

~Virginia Woolf

Rationale:

Children write best when they write what they know.

Alpha autobiography featuring

They know themselves the best of all. So, when we ask children to write, we should ask them to write about what is comfortable, themselves and their lives. The alphabiography format gives them a tool to focus their writing in a way that gives them some freedom to explore their lives through “life lesson