Memoir

● Is non fiction

Types of memoir Parts of memoir

● autobiographical Introduction
● experience body
● event conclusion
● themed
● family
● childhood
● travel
● celebrity
Writing process
● Prewriting
● Drafting
● Revising
● Editing
● Publishing
Editing Marks
● Grammar,spelling,punctuation

Sentence structure
● syntax
● fragments
● redundancy
● Passive voice
● repetition
● Editing with preposition
Purpose and Goal
● Purpose: The structure that you are working with
● Goal: Is what you want your writing to achieve for your reader
● BOOK PURPOSE: Persuade, Inform and Express
● BOOK GOAL: Convince the reader that the child acting is abusive
Theme
● Central Idea, general concepts
Elements of fiction
● character,plot,setting
Exposition
● When the conflict begins and the characters are mentioned
Types of character
● flat vs round, antagonist vs protagonist, dynamic vs static
Climax
● The highest point of the conflict
Setting
● Place when the story is happening
2 types of setting
● Backdrop ( you can write it where you want and the story won’t change.
● Integral ( can only happen in that place and time, if they are changed, the story won’t
be the same.
types of conflict
● c vs self
● c vs other
● c vs supernatural
● c vs nature
● c vs society
● c vs tech
Rising and Falling Action

● Rising: Effect of the Conflict

● Falling: Conflict of the decision
Resolution
● The end of a story
B.O.A.T.S
Behavior
Opinion of others
Appearance
Thought
Speech

Scenes of the novel in B.O.A.T.S (Debra)

B Knife
O she don't want to Jennette go with Miranda
A death bed, (Jeannette describe) that she was beautiful and
T When mom was diagnosed with cancer
S Emails when Jeanette was on a trip in Hawaii and her mom request her money to fill the
refrigerator

The book is:

● celebrity memoir
● theme memoir
● autobiographical memoir
● family memoir

Scenes of the novel in B.O.A.T.S (Jennette)

● B - she felt guilty and rebel about his eating issues

● O - embarrassed about how the bikini looks like in her body
● A - the fame of iCraly increase and she begun with eating issues
● T - when she was taking shower with her brother and she thinks that was rare
● S - the first time jannette had sex she was very quiet and did not express herself and
let them control her