Memoir covers narrative, informative, and persuasive writing, which are described in the Common Core State Standards: College and Career Readiness Anchor Standards for Writing (CCRA.W). Memoirs are narrative memories told through rich description, dialogue, setting, and characters; and they are based on true stories (CCSS. ELA-Literacy.CCRA.W.3). Melissa Williamson thinks Teachers should teach memoirs as preparation for life beyond K-12 education. Writing takes on four different areas as students progress through their schooling: academic writing, civic writing, professional writing, and personal writing (Roen, Glau, and Maid). Memoirs can serve all of these purposes. The author must make decisions on what details to share and not share; therefore, the author demonstrates critical understanding of academic writing, and those decisions lead to an argument for what is important about the story being told (thus enhancing the idea behind argumentative civic writing). Professional writing requires clarity to be effective. Telling a story challenges the writer to paint a clear picture of an event. Finally, the memoir is personal and allows the writer to fulfill the desire to tell one's own story. She examines how music should be used in the classroom to tap into a linguistic and musical intelligence, but it also falls into the intrapersonal intelligence.