Showing posts with label six word memoirs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label six word memoirs. Show all posts

6.7.09

Six words memoirs about personally influential people (without names)

I teach high school level English classes at a private school in New Orleans. I often use "six-word memoirs" in the classroom. The idea is simple. Ask your students to describe themselves in six words. It has to be six! Articles count. You can extend it to include a six-word description of a person, an object, a place (really, anything) only using six words. Here are some model six-word "stories" I made about people I know.

A prose roster of influential people using the seven-word memoir concept:

He is my occasional problem solver.

She teaches me Library Science know-how.



Unfortunately, he is the secret keeper.



A woman to a special man.



In desire, I play dead! Sucks!



A child-man with a new soul.



A gentle giant whom I love.



A spit of French and red.



This guy is no longer haunted.



A sweet soul soon to blossom.



A caustic soul: will he bloom?



Brother for true to each other.



We would have babies together but...

His crushes are epic and sudden.



Taught the wonders of boolean operators.



Amazing: different paths but still friends.

Have never met: only in dreams.



The best lunches ever: learned tons.



Your name was Bunch: hah hah.



Seriously: we ate ants together once.



I asked you a thousand questions.



She ate salad, cleanly, without dressing.



You skated out of my life.



I cannot believe it was ten.



The humor is always the best.



It was unwittingly a group project.



First loves are not always sweet.



Philosophy had never been so intense.