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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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…
Build Your Stack: Girl Power! Sharing the Power, Courage, and Voice of Girls
…Also included is a memoir from Jacqueline Woodson, showing how she struggled with reading but refused to allow this to hold back her gift of writing. Billie Jo and Ha…
Build Your Stack: Audacious Stories of Human Spaceflight
…and Laurie Caulkholven This memoir tells the remarkable story of Leland Melvin growing up in Virginia, being drafted by the NFL, and becoming an astronaut. Twice he traveled on the…
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