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Bell Ringer: Reading
Read the excerpt from //Autobiography of a Face// by Lucy Grealy. Please don't annotate on this one! I didn't make copies for everyone. In your Writer's Notebook, take notice of techniques the author uses in the narrative. How is it structured? What stands out?

Question: Future Writing Prompt!
In his second volume of memoirs, //Ways of Escape// (1980), Graham Green observed the following: //"Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic fear which is inherent in the human situation.” //

How can writers use memoirs as therapy to deal with the human situation and to reflect on larger issues/ideas?

Group Discussion
Create an anchor chart with your group that lists characteristics of a great narrative.