This week’s Six-Word Memoirs focused on bright futures and learning from past mistakes. To see all of this week’s illustrated memoirs, visit SMITH’s Tumblr and Pinterest pages.

In last week’s Six-Word Memoirs, you asked big questions and hatched even bigger escape plans. To see all of the week’s illustrated memoirs, visit SMITH Magazine’s Tumblr.

Last week’s Six-Word Memoirs were about difficulty and struggle but, ultimately, hope. To see all of the week’s illustrated memoirs, visit SMITH Magazine’s Tumblr.

This week’s Six-Word Memoirs were all about contrast, namely between what you want in your life and what you have. To see all five of this week’s illustrated memoirs, visit SMITH Magazine’s Tumblr.

This week’s Six-Word Memoirs demonstrated your love of nostalgia, whether that be for childhood homes or dwelling in other people’s daydreams. To see all five of this week’s illustrated memoirs, visit SMITH Magazine’s Tumblr.

Last week’s Six-Word Memoirs showed your positive side as you saw the humor in everything from a flock of Springtime pedicures to obstacles getting in the way of your bucket list. To see all of the week’s illustrated memoirs, visit SMITH Magazine’s Tumblr.

This week’s featured classroom attends Essex Street Academy in NYC, a school that prides itself on its project-based focus on learning and personalized approach to education. The ninth and tenth graders taking a creative writing course with teachers Jenny Platow and Caitlin Thomas were asked to write Six-Word Memoirs after thoroughly analyzing the book, I Can’t Keep My Own Secrets: Six-Word Memoirs by Teens Famous & Obscure, found in the school library.

The students were encouraged to notice not just the words used in the memoirs but also the positioning of the words on the page and the book’s overall design. The class then went on to explore the Six-Word Memoir project as a greater movement by checking out some YouTube video compilations, celebrity six-worders and memoirs from teenagers just like them.

Several of the students have IEP’s (Individual Education Plan) and struggle with reading and writing in some capacity; still, as we’ve so often found, the Six-Word Memoir format is for everyone. Although the main focus of their creative writing course this semester was dramatic writing, students took the creative liberty to mix things up by incorporating other forms of creative writing into the curriculum as well. Each student was required to create three to four memoirs of her own, whether funny, sad, serious or random.

“We quickly saw that while some of our students used the format as a way to just express their creativity and silliness others quickly gravitated towards revealing more serious and sad anecdotes from their life experiences,” Platow says.

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This week’s Six-Word Memoirs were somber, reflecting your reactions to the recent tragedy in Boston. To see the rest of the week’s illustrated memoirs, visit SMITH Magazine’s Tumblr.

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This week’s Six-Word Memoirs focused on endurance and positivity. To see all five of the illustrated memoirs, visit SMITH Magazine’s Tumblr.

Last week’s Six-Word Memoirs of the day ended on a positive note. To see all five of the week’s illustrated memoirs, visit SMITH Magazine’s Tumblr.