Columbia High School
Write A Six-Word Memoir
We are asking you to write a six-word memoir. Please post them on this blog. You can also come to the library and write down yours. We plan to post some around the library. Sign your memoir with your First Name and Last Initial or just say what gender you are and your grade (9th grade, 10th grade …). You are welcome to write more then one.
If you are looking for inspiration, check out some of the posted examples. You can also come to the library and check out the books I Can’t Keep My Own Secrets: Six-Word Memoirs by Teens Famous & Obscure and Not Quite What I Was: Planning Six – Word Memoirs by Famous and Obscure Writers. Both books are published by Smith Magazine and inspired us to create this project.
Here are some examples from faculty, staff and students:
Random act of laziness, totally worthwhile - Male, 10th grade
Here today; down-the-shore tomorrow! – Roseann V.
My life is serendipty personifies – luck – Mollie W.
Can’t read as kid: Now librarian – Elissa M.
Hate school. Love Life. Now What? – Anna R.
Post yours in the comment box below.
Remember to sign your memoir with either your First Name and Last Inital or Male or Female and your grade.
Enjoy!
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Friends don’t know how they hurt
Crazy life with my crazy friends:)
Cheesy Sauce not just for Kraft
Ms. D., Can I clone you?
Life’s more than an ad campaign.
“I teach languages, therefore I learn.”
Ask me for my honest opinion.
Laugh frequently. Love deeply. Live fully.
Mom’s Kitchen Specials; meals to remember.
Family-Friendships-Memories create forever happiness
Life is a journey. Bon Voyage!
Memoirs are highly overated in theory
Marv The Million Dollar Man. Kerching!
The trouble with six word memoirs…
Two centuries, six decades, still here
live long and prosper, prime directive
colored, negro, black, african-american, ethnic, proud
I listened, so I could see.
Truth, justice and the American way.
Reach for the sun right now.
Do you really believe in me?
where is my letter from hogwarts?
my first love: a gay man
Pondering
Over
New
Dreams =
Endless
Realities
Anything’s possible, you just gotta believe!
My scars tell my fairy tale