Tuesday 8/21,2007 2:00-3:30 Workshop Script for Hampl For homework (c.

1 hour): Read Hampls story about her first piano lesson, pp. 26-27 in the Reader. Before going on, take 15 minutes to record a remembered moment from your own experience, making it rich with particular details as her memory is. Then, read Hampls comment on her story and on the genre of memoir, pp. 27-32 and take 5 minutes to write your first impressions and reactions. Then choose 3 sentences from this section that seem particularly interesting, thought provoking, insightful or wrong. Choose one and write for 5 minutes explaining your choice. Workshop Session: MEMOIRS OF CHILDHOOD imply two personae -- the child experiencing the events and the adult writer who "processes" those events on paper --Look at Hampls paragraph 8, I was given --LOOP: How is the perspective of the child evident in this passage? --LOOP: What clues does this paragraph include that show the adult perspective? --Share one of these with the whole group. Now read your own memoir written for homework. Did you write in the adult voice, the childs voice, or some combination? --Break into pairs and read your memoir to the other person and listen to theirs. --Discuss: What direct quotations in the voice of the child could be added to your memoir to make that perspective more vivid? --Write a DIALOG with your partner, each of you taking on the role of either child or adult. One of you should start with the child's voice and the other with the adult's. Sustain the two dialogues for 10 minutes. --Share some. --With reference to Hampl: How does the author use the voice of the child to advance an adult's perspective? --Find and comment upon a point in the memoir where the voice of the adult and the voice of the child blend. --PROCESS: Now look back over the writing you have done. Which of these

KINDS OF WRITING was most enjoyable or challenging for you and why?