![]() ![]() ![]() Steps to writing a Six-Word Memoir (Student Directions) Six Word Memoirs written by my seventh grade students at Franklin Delano Roosevelt Middle School during my student teaching experience. ![]() Some people ask the kids to add drawings to illustrate them. When the kids have settled in, read the words to them and ask what they might think the story means.Īsk the group this question “Can you tell your life story in six words?” Provide examples of memoirs. Write your own Six-Word Memoir or story on the black board or white board. Purpose of Group: Team building Community building Relationship building Developing individual insight This is how it works: It would be a great resource for any School Resource Officer who will be making presentations to student groups (both small and large). They disclose in six words what might have been impossible otherwise.Larry Smith recently published a book called Things Don’t Have to be Complicated: Illustrated Six-Word Memoirs by Students Making Sense of the World, published with TED Books, a division of the TED Conference. Initially, I used it as an icebreaker but soon it became a powerful tool to inspire and encourage conversations which get to the bottom of how kids (and adults for that matter) are experiencing their lives. I have used the Six-Word Memoir project in counseling groups and as an interactive presentation for over a decade. Hundreds of thousands of people have shared their own short life story as well as in classrooms, churches, and at live Six-Word “slams” across the world. Six-Word Memoirs have been featured in hundreds of media outlets from NPR to The New Yorker and covered on tens of thousands of blogs. Stories have ranged from the bittersweet (“Cursed with cancer, blessed with friends”) and poignant (“I still make coffee for two”) to the inspirational (“Business school? Bah! Pop music? Hurrah”) and hilarious (“I like big butts, can’t lie”).The Six-Word Memoir project has become a global phenomenon and a bestselling book series. So many people responded that the Six-Word Memoir project formed and grew wings. They were meant to be short life stories which would be shared in the publication. Never worn.”īack in November 2006, SMITH Magazine asked readers to send in their own Six-Word Memoirs. His response was this “For Sale: Baby shoes. Legend has it that Ernest Hemingway was once challenged to write a story in only six words. ![]()
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