- Why I remain...
- Why we love...
You get the idea. Let's consider how we jigsawed the various sections of Lopate's memoir piece. For tomorrow, you will write two paragraphs of the memoir. We will revise in time to make the sentences pop with the confidence of syntax.
Let's review parts of the memoir to include in our own memoir.
The Pass by Ricardo Lockette
The Best Play I Ever Made
Why I Remain a Baseball Fan
Singular Focus (preparation for greatness)
Transitions from Lopate's essay
- I sometimes...
- The fact is I...
- I grew up in ...
- In a sense, the( insert favorite team/player)...
- It is sometimes posited as ....
- Part of being a ________ is accepting________
- I can still see in my mind's eye...(insert memory)
- The older I get, the more ________
- Of course being a ____fan is not all about ______
- Here we come to the most essential reason I cling to _________
- _______ has always attracted _______, a mixed blessing.
- With such a powerful inducement to keep me engaged, perhaps you understand_________
- Nor do I buy the idea that _______ must be like _______
- I have no idea how _____ compares with _________
No comments:
Post a Comment