Starting A Memoir (1 of 4)

When starting a memoir you have to think about what you will include and exclude in your story. A memoir is very differnt from a biography or autobiography. It is one event or a series of connecting events that make up a story. With memoirs a person focuses on a small area and it is hard to refine what is being written about. When I was writing my narative and defining things in my informational text I had to wonder: Where do we exactly start? In my informational text I said that students would read memoirs and be able to learn from them where they should start. Now that I have done that paper and have to start on the actual memoir I find it hard to start at one definiate spot. I chose to write about my first day of kindergarten but where would I start? When I woke up? When I got on the bus? Going to may classroom? My story could start at many points in my day. In the end I started my memoir with the time I woke up and ended the day with my mother picking me up for school. Now that I look back they were great times to start and stop my story.