Describe the Renaissance in 6 words

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Describe the Renaissance in 6 words

• No more than 6, no less than 6!

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Six-Word Memoirs

• Not Quite What I was Planning Six Word Memoirs
  from Writers Famous and Obscure
• collects almost 1,000 six-word memoirs, including
  additions from many celebrities including Stephen
  Colbert, Amy Sedaris, Dave Eggers, Richard Ford,
  Deepak Chopra, Moby, and more.

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• Legend has it that Hemingway was once challenged
  to write a story in only six words. His response?
  
• For sale baby shoes, never worn.
• What could this mean?
• 2 years ago, SMITH Magazine asked their readers
  for their own six-word memoirs.
• (Smith Magazine is an online magazine devoted to
  storytelling in all its forms. Smith's content is
  participatory in nature, and the magazine
  welcomes contributions from all its readers.)

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• Cursed with cancer, blessed with friends
• I still make coffee for two
• Business school? Bah! Pop music? Hurrah
• I like big butts, cant lie

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From LREI High School in NYC

• Too many colors, hair now brittle.
• Fat camp makes fat kids fatter.
• Life is best with sturdy trampolines.
• Only child, home alone. Wheres dinner?
• Late to school every single day.
• Slightly tempted to believe in Santa.
• I thought I was a princess.
• Im always the only one laughing.
• Beautiful vacations until the brother came.
• Obama ran, so I could fly.
• Still scared about being grown up.

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From Moorestown High School
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Name David but feel like Goliath
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• http//www.smithmag.net/sixwordbook/2008/11/20/lat
  e-to-school-every-single-day-six-words-in-a-nyc-hi
  gh-school/
• http//www.smithteens.com/

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• Six-Word Memoirs, the video preview
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vejndNExso9M
• Mr. Wrights class
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vTp6jaUHEfII
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vnD7Bh63fxUM
• New book came out in January Love Heartbreak
• http//www.amazon.com/Six-Word-Memoirs-Love-Heartb
  reak-Writers/dp/0061714623/refsr_1_1?ieUTF8sbo
  oksqid1223593434sr1-1

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Daniel Handlers 10 Six word memoirs about love
and heartbreak which follow the course of his
life

• Our song Pat Benetars We Belong.Her father
  challenged me to duel.Met in Israel, split like
  Palestine.Summer 1988. Parents still hate
  me.What we had in common dorm.Taught me to
  drink Wild Turkey.Crazy unfaithful liar, now a
  therapist.Met on rebound, seventeen years now.

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A college freshmans livejournal

• http//community.livejournal.com/jr__nal/4242175.h
  tml
• Youtube Six Word Memoirs
• http//www.smithmag.net/sixwordbook/page/5/

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• A short, short story. UrsulaLeGuin wrote,
• Easy. Just touch the match to.
• Something youve learned about yourself.
• I google myself far too often.
• Advice you would give to another person.
• Never believe your own press releases.
• A biography of a famous character.
• Jimmy Wales, creator of Wikipedia, offers the
  following
• Yes, you can edit this biography.
• Your dream job.
• Create the need sell the solution.

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• Everyone has a story.
• Can you tell yours in six words?

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Create a 6 word memoir for each about

• Your life
• Your hobbies/interests/job
• A person who has influenced you in any way
• A Renaissance Figure (Ch 11 or 12)
• A Reformation Figure (Ch 13 14)

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Six Word Memoir Project

• Choose a Renaissance or Reformation figure and
  write his/her six word memoir, then turn in into
  a
• creative masterpiece
• like the examples we saw in the video.
• (ideas include using photographs, magazine
  cutouts, your own drawings, images you find
  online, etc.)
• Refer to Chapter 1, Sections 1-4
• You will be graded on effort, originality, and
  creativity so produce something that really
  represents you!
• It should be no smaller than 4x6 but as big as
  youd like!
• Due Wed. Oct. 12
• Value 100 points
• (5 per memoir, 75 for the creative masterpiece)

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• http//www.andreeinstitute.com

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