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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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…
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…
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…
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?…
Making a Deep Connection
…the Sky, a memoir by Farah Ahmedi. Ahmedi experiences unimaginable challenges that many of us in the western world would never encounter. She becomes disabled after stepping on a landmine,…
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…
Mentor Texts for Teaching Narrative Writing: Chapter Books
…centuries-old format of the encyclopedia to convey the accumulated knowledge of her lifetime in a poignant, wise, often funny, fully realized memoir. On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by…
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