As presentations are underway, you should be working on the following reading assignments:
1. Read and take notes on ch. 3, pp. 58-63 (DUE WED., 11/12)
2. Read and annotate the following article (DUE WED., 11/12)
"Good Readers and Good Writers" by Vladimir Nabokov (speech delivered in 1948)
Also, for our next class project, you will be reading a memoir. Consider the following statement to help you distinguish between a memoir and an autobiography.
"An autobiography focuses on the chronology of the writer’s entire life
while a memoir covers one specific aspect of the writer’s life. So, if I
chose to write about my complete life up to this point—including
growing up in Cincinnati, my time in New York, the few years I spent in
Chicago and eventually landing at Writer’s Digest—I’d write an
autobiography. If wrote a book about the winter of my sophomore year in
high school where I got my tongue stuck to an icy pole, I’d write a memoir." -- Brian Klems, Writer's Digest
http://www.writersdigest.com/online-editor/memoir-vs-autobiography-2
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