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For your memoir, choose one of the following options. 1) …
For your memoir, choose one of the following options.
1) You can write own memoir about a personal story that humanizes and breaks stereotypes about a person from a marginalized group (race, class, gender, mental health, disabilities, etc.) from your life. You can write about how you learned to check your thinking–how you had an “aha” moment that led to growth and to lessen the hold of stereotypes on you. You can write about understanding the challenges people from marginalized groups have faced and how they have overcome them or how you have done that together. Connect to a stage in Campbell’s monomyth structure of a hero’s journey.
2) You can write a fictional memoir based on a modern hero that you have researched. The memoir will be written from your chosen hero’s point of view. The memoir should be based on fact, but you will be required at times to imagine the hero’s inner thoughts and character traits that helped make a successful journey. Use first person.
Write about ONE event in the hero’s journey, rather than writing an entire biographical story. Consider the hero’s journey discussed in earlier in this unit and focus on one stage. The memoir, directly or indirectly, should reveal what traits you believe led to this particular journey and what you think the hero learned from the experience. Connect to a stage in Campbell’s monomyth structure of a hero’s journey.
Step 1 – Explore these sites to choose to help choose the person on which to base your memoir if you have chosen Option 2. Once you have made a selection you may need to do some further research to find details about one important event in their journey. Remember it can be from any of the three stages: Departure, Initiation and Return.
1. Time 100
2. My Hero
3.Conduct your own search to find several articles from news sites that have ranked certain Canadians as the “top” heroes. Keep in mind this is only an opinion. You decide who you think is worthy!
Step 2 – Complete the research and planning outline that you will use to help draft your memoir. Hand this in with your memoir.
Step 3 – Write a draft of the memoir. Then revise, review, polish, and publish. Don’t forget to write from the point of view of your hero. Use first-person. Use the information you have just read about writing a memoir including its length and style (around seven hundred fifty – one thousand words).
