Discussion
Now and Later - 6 Word Memoir
I wonder if asking students to create a six-word memoir at the beginning, and then again at the end of the school year would yield interesting results. Is only one school year enough to yield a change in attitudes and people and things of utmost importance in a student's life?
Comments
Writing for Change
on Jul 17 2011
at 08:08
Six Word Memoir revisited
I have wondered that as well. Last year was the first time i tried this project school wide, and we created a video of the best six word memoirs and shared them on our broadcast. I am thinking about doing a study of sentences the first month of school. There are several sites that would foster this study, such as Daniel Pink's work "What's your sentence?" at
http://www.danpink.com/video and another I want to use http://onesentence.org/. I think it will be fascinating to do this at the beginning of the year, save them and review it again at the end.
Elyse Eidman-Aadahl
on Jul 17 2011
at 09:24
This could make for a wonderful resource
It would be great to see the student-made video and to hear an analysis of how the project went over the course of the year. Lots of folks do the '6 word memoir' thing—but now there's the digital piece to aggregate many examples and look at them over time. Also, good digital assets that could enrich the students' thinking along with the original 6 word website. We'd love to have some resources about this from you all.
Leah Siviski
on Jul 18 2011
at 19:18
Book-ends
Sarah, what a wonderful idea! If your students do an e-portfolio, the "now and later" six-word memoirs would be great book-ends to the project. You could even prepare them for the "later" assignment throughout the year using characters. For example, write Jack's six-word memoir at the beginning of Lord of the Flies then his changed memoir at the end. Giving students practice noticing change may give them the tools to view their own year's growth more profoundly.