We've been talking about having a schoolwide push to have students write a memoir and then assemble the best pieces into an anthology. We were going to do this in conjunction with our "What if McKinley Read the Same Book" Barack Obama project. Now, we haven't received the books from Gear Up yet, and both the Senator's office and Random House publishing declined my request for book donations (Senator underling said taxpayer $ cannot donate books, publisher gave us an offer of a whopping discount (yeah right...$.40 under the price Amazon is offering)).
Anyway, I want to push on with the memoir project. All the cool kids are doing it. I'm posting the handout sheet here, and I'll come around with copies. Push it to your kids. We're going to have announcements for the next few weeks and a few other promotional activities.
Here's the "contest" sheet:
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