Serial is a podcast that helped give rise to the podcast frenzy in 2014. Sarah Koeing uses masterful storytelling techniques to help students analyze a nonfiction, comtemporary drama. This podcast covers in detail a murder case from 1999. As a class we will only focus on the first episode, but students can listen to the entire fist season on Itunes, spotify, or at Serial's webpage. The students will close read, study vocabulary, make inferences, and critically think about diverse perspectives on one case.
Personal Narrative- Focuses on a singular event or situation Memoir- Focuses on the relationship you and a place, object, animal, another person Persoanl Essay- Has a central theme and stories to support that theme Personal Narrative Poetry- Poetry format applied to any personal expressive writing