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Use games to stimulate
memory: start here, with
this simple crossword.
Memory Recall
and Write Better Memoirs--
A Crossword Puzzle of Memories
stimulate our memory begins with this simple
crossword.
1. Fill in the crossword using the clues.
2. Choose one word from the completed puzzle
and write down your earliest associations with
that word.
3. Write as much as you can, and be sure to use
the descriptive sensory details we started in
Memoir Writing for Our Elders. Include any
sights, sounds, colors, textures, smells you can
recall.
4. Then, add your opinions and/or criticisms.
That is, move beyond the what to the so what?
For example, if you choose "pet" for your memory
word, discuss why you felt the way you did about
the pet. Note your attitude, your family's
attitude, your family's way of training and
disciplining the pet.
Describe the positive or negative beliefs, actions,
feelings...so you move beyond the mere
description, and so you make the piece more
interesting!
1.When you click on the chess game pieces
below, you will be taken to a separate
window.
2.Click on a space in the puzzle: a clue will
appear to the right of the crossword puzzle.
3.Fill in the spaces.
When you are ready to return to this page:
Click the back arrow (<---) at the top left of
your screen.
Click on the game pieces:
Memoir Writing Help, Memoir Writing Ideas
Free Lesson-Tips/Tricks for Our Elders to Write Your Life
Story (Using Food to Describe Senses)
Free Writing Lesson- Using Dates in History to Stimulate
Memory and Generate Memoirs
Free Lesson-More Games (Word Cards) to Generate
Memoir Writing
Free Lesson-Another Online Game (Flash Cards) for
Writing Extended Definitions in Your Memoirs
Free Activity-Finalizing the Order by Using a Topic
Organizing Game
art in the RoxanneWrites HOME page for art credits section.
