Build Your Stack: A Glimpse into the Literature of Iran
…discovered in the works of Azar Nafisi. Reading Lolita in Tehran is a fascinating personal memoir of a teacher exploring forbidden literature with a small group of students. Nafisi is…
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Reading List for Summer in Participatory Citizenship
…by Malala Yousafzai, with Patricia McCormick, Grades 6 and up The young readers edition of Malala Yousafzai’s memoir is a must-read for all kids Grade 6 and up. Yousafzai was…
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…
How Do You Approach Book Tastings?
…a memoir is (our book club focus was nonfiction, mostly memoir titles). Students had a sheet for their rating of each book at each table group. Students were grouped into…
A Community of Writers
…At the beginning of our memoir unit, to study the structure of a memoir, we read an excerpt of Sy Montgomery’s memoir, How to Be a Good Creature. The seventh…
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…
The Enduring Work of Global BIPOC Women Literary Activists
…Wales in Australia. Dr. Heiss’s publications include a series of articles, adult novels, elementary and middle-grade books, and a memoir. In addition, she has edited the following groundbreaking anthologies: Macquarie…
What’s a Book For? Some Things to Consider when Planning for Conversations
…a place to study phonics. I’ve just finished my memoir, which I can imagine 9-year-olds through 99-year-olds reading. Actually, it’s an exaggerated memoir because I’m just not sure if I’m…
“Are You Pleased with This?”
…notebook drafts of kids’ memoirs. As each kid showed me the pages, pointing to where they wanted a teacher spot check, I quietly asked, “Are you pleased with this piece?…
Black Women’s Lives as Inquiry Artifacts: Pedagogical Approaches to #SayHerName
…their auto/biographies and memoirs into the development of their multimodal projects. Scene 3: Engaging Black Women’s Stories After we compiled our list of activists, I gave each student a half…
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