This lesson, inspired by Gary Paulsen's My Life in Dog Years, helps students write memoirs or narratives about their lives through the eyes of a pet, a favorite pair of jeans, or their shoes. Students choose one item that is very close to them and write about memorable scenes from their life from the viewpoint of that item. What would their shoes or favorite jeans say if they were telling us a story?

Concepts

memoirs, personification, point of view

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Additional Tags

your life from an object's point of view, gary paulsen's my life in dog years, northern nevada writing project, writingfix, narrative writing, memoir

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Classroom Considerations

• Knovation Readability Score: 3 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)