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…
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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…
“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?…
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…
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…
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…
It’s All in the Details
…What’s already been written and collected? I focus on direct sources—letters, diaries, memoirs, interviews. This is where intimate, defining details are found. For example, while researching The Family Romanov, I…
From Award to Challenge
…City of Thieves by David Benioff A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah Black Swan Green by David Mitchell Water for Elephants by Sar Gruen…
Quashing Disability Myths through the Lived Experience of Authors: Three New Middle Grade Books
…are treated as—just people. Rolling Warrior, by Judith Heumann with Kristen Joiner Judith Heumann narrates her dramatic memoir for middle grades, Rolling Warrior (2021), written with Kristen Joiner. In the…
Build Your Stack: Affirming Black Boys outside the Context of Police Brutality
…George M. Johnson Journalist and activist George M. Johnson’s YA memoir-manifesto All Boys Aren’t Blue takes stories from his childhood, adolescence, and college years to show readers how they can…
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