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…
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What We Gain from Teaching Translated Literature
…to London and was just 21 or 22 years old at the time. In his memoir, Charles Cowden Clarke recalls this evening fondly, writing that he and his friend sat…
Pairing Texts for Deepening Reading Comprehension
…as pairing the Holocaust memoir Night with the movie Hotel Rwanda and the Time article “What Makes Us Moral” to move the discussion beyond a particular incident of disregard for…
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…
It’s Time We All—Students and Teachers Alike—Start to Speak for Ourselves
…through creative pieces like those described in the chapter “The Magic of Memoir” or through analytical work, as discussed in “Making a Case for It,” students need to be given…
A Significant Influence: Describing an Important Teacher in Your Life
…One popular text by Albom is Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life’s Greatest Lesson. It went on to become one of the top selling memoirs…
Teaching Global Citizenship and Multicultural Education during the COVID-19 Global Pandemic
…Autobiographies and memoirs provide an insight into a person’s life as well as into the person’s culture and history. This is evident in the collection of autobiographies edited by Ariel…
A Tribute to a Giant: Remembering Richard “Dick” Robinson
From Kylene Beers, NCTE President, 2008–2009 The books are award-winning and iconic: Front Desk (Kelly Yang); Child of the Dream: A Memoir of 1963 (Sharon Robinson); the Harry Potter series…
Why I Think It’s Important to Know Frederick Douglass
…someone who lived under America’s most depraved institution. Second, it’s a memoir of a key American figure. Deeply entwined with the historical significance of the work is its value as…
Leveraging Librarians
…Every time I begin a new unit (memoir, argument, narrative nonfiction), Mike has a cart of books at the ready for my students to peruse. He brings it down to…
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