English 10 · Week 28 · Memoir, Dystopia, and Leadership
Memoir and Truth
How memoirists shape true events into meaning.
- Students will
- Students analyze how a memoirist selects and orders events to create meaning.
- SEL skill
- Recognize how choosing which events to tell shapes an honest story
- What it looks like
- Students consider how we tell honest stories about ourselves.
- Content focus
- How memoir shapes truth
- Format
- Collaborative analysis
Self-awareness
Self-awareness is knowing your own strengths, feelings, and beliefs and how they influence your choices. More self-awareness activities
What you get
A teacher guide with what to say, step by step, plus student pages and a supports page for students with diverse learning needs, including those with IEPs. Print or Project it, or assign it in Google Forms and Google Docs for Google Classroom. Your first 10 activities are free.
Standards
- RI.9-10.3: Reading: Informational Text, Grades 9 to 10, Standard 3
- CA ELD standards: ELD.PI.9-10.6 Reading and viewing closely; ELD.PII.9-10.1 Understanding text structure
- CA ELA/ELD Framework theme: Meaning Making
- Works with: Any nonfiction
- Popular books named: Night, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Born a Crime
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More self-awareness activities for English 10
- Where I Come From Self-awarenessStudents write a where I am from poem or vignette honoring the places and people that shaped them.
- The Hero's Journey and Mine Self-awarenessMapping the hero's journey in a text and in a challenge students faced.
- Symbols That Carry Meaning Self-awarenessSymbols in literature and objects that carry personal meaning.
- Semester Reflection Self-awarenessReflective letter on growth and goals.
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RoseThread Connect activities are drafted with the help of AI and shaped by educators. Students never have to share anything personal. Our five SEL skills are informed by CASEL's SEL Framework; RoseThread Learning is not affiliated with or endorsed by CASEL.