Build Your Stack: Graphic Novel Nonfiction
…Almost American Girl by Robin Ha In this honest memoir, Robin shares her experience growing up in Korea and then unexpectedly moving to Alabama with a new stepfamily. In her…
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Build Your Stack®: Diversity Is Intersectional Teaching
…[All My Rage recommended by Arham Piracha] In the memoir, They Call Us Enemy, George Takei depicts the traumatic experience of Japanese incarceration by crafting a graphic novel forged…
Why Students Should Read This Book
I just finished reading—actually listening to Sherman Alexie read—You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me: A Memoir. Not a YA book like The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time…
Who Am I Becoming through My Fellowship with CNV?
…the genre I am using here and how to describe it. I regard this text as the opening episode of a micro-comparative memoir, a genre with at least two meaningfully…
All-American Boys, All-American Teachers: Teaching What Matters Most in 2017
…up? Can a memoir by Malcolm X or a novel by García Márquez save them from the daily blows? And what about those who have such learning problems they can’t…
Trouble in Comic Land
…Alison Bechdel was selected as a text in the 12th grade and AP Literature curricula at Watchung Hills Regional High School in New Jersey. Then it was challenged. The memoir,…
Build Your Stack®: Antiracist Books for Your Curriculum Today
…that led Woodson to write about the joys and challenges of growing up in the Civil Rights era. Use this memoir to explore poetic devices, analyze how Woodson develops a…
Learning from Successful Challenges against Book Bans in 2022
…a “record year” for states seeking to curtail LGBTQIA+ rights and the year that saw Maia Kobabe’s graphic novel Gender Queer: A Memoir become the most banned book in the…
Choice and Interest Make the Difference for Second-Semester Seniors
…“Coronavirus Memoirs.” Author Study: Stephen King: A deeper dive into the master of horror’s short stories, novellas, film adaptations, and novels (e.g., IT, The Outsider, The Shining). We will begin…
Learning about the History of Writing and Its Material Culture through DIY
…Historical Park (Massachusetts). Lucy Larcom (1824–1893), former “mill girl” turned writer and teacher, found a way to pen poetry and a childhood memoir on her compact desk, where quill, ink,…
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