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Writing and Teaching Memoir
Three-credit Graduate
Course
(Summer=5days Academic
year=15 sessions)
Offered in conjunction with
Addison-Rutland Professional Development Consortium and
Castleton State College
Writing and Teaching Memoir offers
teachers the opportunity to immerse themselves in the world of
memoir as both writer and teacher. Participants will engage in
a wide variety of activities that may be used within courses
they currently teach or in a separate course. At the end of
the course, participants will have a collection of their own
writing, and a specific syllabus for teaching that includes
reading and writing assignments, tests, projects, and
templates for comprehensive first and third person
memoirs.
Course Schedule
Day 1: What is Memoir?
Session 1:
The Glass Menagerie
Session 2: Exploring models
techniques
Session 3: From collection
to memoir
Day 2: What Drives Memoir?
Session 1:
Creative non-fiction emotions and questions
Session 2: The
“Middle C” metaphor
Session 3:
Soundtracks
Day 3: Finding Our Stories
Session 1:
Games
Session 2: Pets
Session 3: Children’s
books
Day 4: The Power of Collections
Session
1: Defining the genre
Session 2: A research
template
Session 3: Practicing
Day 5: Extending the Genre
Session 1:
Objects, events, people, places,
Session 2 : Narrative
poetry and prose
Session 3: Final
reading
Fees & Credit
Information
The comprehensive fee of
$875 includes course materials and three graduate credits from
Castleton State College. However, this does not include
travel, meals, and lodging.
Interested? Click here to get more
information
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Memoir: Landscape and
Language of Memory
Three-Credit
Graduate Course
(Summer=5
days Academic year= 15 sessions)
Offered in conjunction with Addison-Rutland Professional
Development Consortium and Castleton State College
This course offers teachers the
opportunity to develop more strategies to write and teach
memoir. Whether experienced in the genre or exploring it for
the first time, participants will engage in a wide variety of
activities that may be used within courses they currently
teach or in a separate course. At the end of the course, they
will have a collection of their own writing, and a specific
syllabus for teaching that includes reading and writing
assignments, tests, projects, and templates for comprehensive
first and third person memoirs.
Course Schedule
Day 1: The Landscape of
Memory
Session 1: What
does the genre “look"
like?
Session 2:
Creating timelines
Session 3:
From timeline to
memoir
Day
2: The History of
Memory
Session 1:
Events, objects, people, places, emotions and
questions
Session 2: The
“North Star” of memory
Session 3: “Constellations” of
memory
Day 3: The Language of Memory
Session
1: “Mapping” memory
Session 2: Photographs
Session 3: Seasons
Day 4: The Recipe of Memory
Session 1:
Food
Session 2: Recipes
Session 3: “Watching”
Day 5: The Alphabet of Memory
Session
1: Dictionary
Session 2: Encyclopedia
Session 3: Final reading
Fees & Credit Information
The
comprehensive fee of $875 includes course materials and three
graduate credits from Castleton State College. However, it
does not include travel, meals and
lodging.
Interested? Click
here to get more
information
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