1. Week Three Whetstone AP Language
Memoir Unit
Week Three
Whetstone
AP Language

2. AGENDA # video “Pick a line…”
Read and annotate “Notes of a Native Son”
Choice Reading

3. Pick a Line Choose a line from The Glass Castle
Use that as a writing starter

4. “Notes of a Native Son”
A classic non-fiction short story

5. Questions for analysis: “Notes of a Native Son” by James Baldwin
To be done on page 14 of your Composition Book.
Identify all of the different stories Baldwin tell in “Notes of a Native Son.”
How does Baldwin relate the story of his relationship with his father to the story of the relationship between black and white America?
Write about a moment in your life when you have been extremely angry. How did you handle it, and what does the experience tell you about yourself now?

6. AGENDA Rhetorical Vocab (repetition) Discuss “Notes of a Native Son”
“Currently Journal”

7. “Notes of a Native Son” Discussion

8. AGENDA Jeannette Walls on writing a memoir “Us and Them”
Choice-Reading

9. AGENDA Review Stephen Dunning revision Rhetorical Vocab (Comparison)
Pre-writing for Slice Of Life Memoir

10. Pre-Writing
“Home”
Draw visual
List of description words

11. Pre-Writing List as many “Slice of Life” moments that you can recall
Number them in order of importance
For the top three, list as many details as possible
Who was there?
What did you feel?
What was the environment?
What else can you say about this moment?

12. AGENDA
Draft beginning of memoir
Choice reading