Memoir Chalk Talk- A Block by Michelle Houghton-Smith https://padlet.com/houghton_michelle/vyr9cgm21jt17eqy What are the characteristics of a memoir? Each of the following excerpts is from a memoir. For each excerpt, make a comment about what you notice. Examples might be: -What stands out to you in the excerpt? -How do you feel after reading the excerpt? -What do you know about the author or characters and how do you know that? en-us 2020-08-19 20:16:22 UTC 2023-05-02 21:40:51 UTC hello@padlet.com WHEN I WAS GROWING UP by Nellie Wong houghton_michelle https://padlet.com/houghton_michelle/vyr9cgm21jt17eqy/wish/688188649 when I was growing up, people told me

 I was dark and I believed my own darkness

 in the mirror, in my soul, my own narrow vision.

]]> 2020-08-19 20:16:22 UTC https://padlet.com/houghton_michelle/vyr9cgm21jt17eqy/wish/688188649 Excerpt: 'The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie houghton_michelle https://padlet.com/houghton_michelle/vyr9cgm21jt17eqy/wish/688188655 "I was born with water on the brain.

Okay, so that's not exactly true. I was actually born with too much cerebral spinal fluid inside my skull. But cerebral spinal fluid is just the doctors' fancy way of saying brain grease." 
]]> 2020-08-19 20:16:22 UTC https://padlet.com/houghton_michelle/vyr9cgm21jt17eqy/wish/688188655 Excerpt from The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros houghton_michelle https://padlet.com/houghton_michelle/vyr9cgm21jt17eqy/wish/688188658 "My great-grandmother. I would've liked to have known her, a wild, horse of a woman, so wild she
wouldn't marry."]]> 2020-08-19 20:16:22 UTC https://padlet.com/houghton_michelle/vyr9cgm21jt17eqy/wish/688188658 From a diary entry from The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank. houghton_michelle https://padlet.com/houghton_michelle/vyr9cgm21jt17eqy/wish/688188661 "I'm seething with rage, yet I can't show it. I'd like to scream, stamp my foot, give Mother a good shaking, cry and I don't know what else because of the nasty words, mocking looks and accusations that she hurls at me day after day, piercing me like arrows from a tightly strung bow, which are nearly impossible to pull from my body."]]> 2020-08-19 20:16:22 UTC https://padlet.com/houghton_michelle/vyr9cgm21jt17eqy/wish/688188661 From The Terror- By Junot Díaz 2015 houghton_michelle https://padlet.com/houghton_michelle/vyr9cgm21jt17eqy/wish/688188666 "I didn’t know what to do with myself. I tried to be agreeable, to make friends, but that didn’t work so
hot; mostly I just slouched in my seat, hating my clothes and my glasses and my face."


]]> 2020-08-19 20:16:22 UTC https://padlet.com/houghton_michelle/vyr9cgm21jt17eqy/wish/688188666 https://padlet.com/houghton_michelle/vyr9cgm21jt17eqy/wish/689752975 The author might have been only focused on one thing or she could have been depressed or people could have been making fun of her there are a lot of interpretations to this.-gabe]]> 2020-08-20 16:36:57 UTC https://padlet.com/houghton_michelle/vyr9cgm21jt17eqy/wish/689752975 Elena https://padlet.com/houghton_michelle/vyr9cgm21jt17eqy/wish/689757478 I Think that this author worried too much about what other people thought about her and said about her.]]> 2020-08-20 16:38:21 UTC https://padlet.com/houghton_michelle/vyr9cgm21jt17eqy/wish/689757478