I teach a Dual Enrollment class, and we’ll be starting off the year with a memoir/autobiography section in order to allow students to write their college essays. While this same thing happened last year, it wasn’t quite what I wanted going in, and so the results were mixed. This year I am upping the intensity a little, and making the students read a lot more in preparation. So I have been reading a handful of books about memoir as well as a number of memoirs. […]