My favorite link in this week’s roundup is Retracing Memories. It’s an innovative way of getting students interested in both poetry and remembered moments. And for something wonderfully wacky, make sure to scroll down to the bottom and check out Fake Office background noise can help your home business. It’s just what I need. 
- New U.S. Television Series: “Find My Family” on ABC. “…a program with one simple mission — to bring families back together. With the help of a dedicated team of researchers, hosts Tim Green and Lisa Joyner guide people searching for lost loved ones through emotional journeys that will change their lives forever. The heartwarming new series premieres Monday, Nov. 23 (9:30-10:00 p.m. ET), following “Dancing with the Stars.” Full-hour editions of the show will air Mondays from 9:00-10:00 p.m., ET.”
- Inventing the Truth: The Art and Craft of Memoir – Imagination serves truth. “William Zinsser in his book, Inventing the Truth: The Art and Craft of Memoir, brings together a variety of writers to illustrate that truth conveyed in memoir is more art than documentation, more interpretive than objective, more imagination than “just the facts.”
- Retracing Memories. “There are plenty of paths to poetry but few are as accessible as retracing our own memories. When we ask students to write about something they remember, we give them the gift of choosing from events that are important enough to recall. They remember because what happened was funny or scary or embarrassing or heartbreaking or silly. They may not retain every detail, but they know how they felt, and emotion is the beating heart of poetry. A bonus of memoir writing is that students cannot be wrong about their idea. It’s their memory!”
- Lights, Camera…Last Words. “Some individuals have found a way to breathe life into dry estate-planning documents: They’re supplementing them with personal messages via video. With guidance—and caveats—from attorneys and financial advisers, some elderly and terminally ill individuals, and even some young parents, are picking up video cameras or hiring professional videographers to share their life stories, express hopes for younger generations and explain why they’re leaving certain assets to certain family members.”
- Cooking up a history lesson. “For Pine Ridge Middle School consumer science teacher Sandy Brock, recipes not only carry memories, but history.That is why Brock has developed a semester-long project for her consumer science classes using “The Holocaust Cookbook,” a cookbook that contains more than 200 recipes from 120 survivors of the Holocaust.”
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