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ELA Drills, Intermediate: Main Idea 1. Which of the statements is best supported by the passage?
ELA Drills, Intermediate: Point of View. Is the statement in the video true or false?
ELA Drills, Intermediate: Textual Analysis 3. Which of the following best summarizes the author's feelings about welfare?
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Want to share stories about your life and experiences but don't feel like posting up at a bus stop and talking to strangers a la Forrest Gump? Try writing a memoir.
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- 00:00
Shmoop lots of people manage to live really exciting lives whether they're [very busy crossing on a city road]
- 00:06
astronauts or rock stars or astronauts who somehow managed to form a rock band
- 00:11
while in space well you never know maybe there's life out there and maybe
- 00:15
it's pretty okay on the drum anyway these people not only get a lifetime [astronaut and an alien playing the drums in space]
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worth of great memories to look back upon but they might also get to write a
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memoir 'la memoir is an account of a person's personal life and experiences
- 00:28
they're usually told in the first person by the author and they usually use I and [a fountain pen scribbling on paper]
- 00:32
me using the Royal we is a little too pretentious even if you're writing a
- 00:37
memoir and a memoir might sound an awful lot like an autobiography aka a book
- 00:42
where someone tells the story of their own life but there's a big difference
- 00:45
while an autobiography covers a person's entire life [a baby and a gravestone]
- 00:49
a memoir focuses on certain parts of the person's life generally related to some
- 00:55
sort of theme like memoir memory but we can see how this would work with the
- 00:59
life of a rockstar an autobiography would attempt to cover everything from [a baby in a box singing into a microphone]
- 01:03
their birth all the way up to their favorite kind of jello to steal from
- 01:07
other old coots at the nursing home on the other hand a memoir would be more
- 01:10
likely to just focus on the rock stars musical career no early bands they were [rock band member playing the guitar]
- 01:15
in how they struck it big that kind of thing so if your main interest in the
- 01:19
rock star is the specific brand of diapers they wore as an infant well
- 01:23
you'd better hope they write an autobiography rather than a memoir also [a man staring at a pair of diapers]
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wow what a weird baby we won't go there that said you don't need to be rich and
- 01:32
famous to write a memoir just about anything can be the running theme of a
- 01:35
memoir from the various places you've lived to the various pet you own to the [lots of trees with rainfall]
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various shoes you worn though something tells us that the rock stars memoir is
- 01:44
probably going to sell a few more copies than your shoe book but er just a hunch [woman looking sad selling books of her shoe]
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