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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Book Banning—Even at the University
I was delighted to read that Fun Home, the musical stage adaptation of Alison Bechdel’s graphic memoir, won a Tony Award for Best Musical last Sunday night, especially since Alison…
“Fostering Culturally Relevant Literacy Instruction”
…a potluck lunch. Recording Family Stories Older students can take part in the process of building family histories by recording the stories, or memoirs, of family members. Do you have…
Creating Community through Writing
…out the ReadWriteThink.org lesson plan Introducing Each Other: Interviews, Memoirs, Photos, and Internet Research for a get-acquainted activity that invites pairs of students to learn about each other and share…
Celebrate African American Writers throughout February
…an introduction to Jacqueline Woodson’s verse memoir, Brown Girl Dreaming. Christopher Paul Curtis’s The Watsons Go to Birmingham — 1963 is the focus of the ReadWriteThink.org lesson plan Graphing Plot…
Embracing Diverse Perspectives in Young Adult Literature
…young person living in the world today. These worldviews vary widely when considering the experiences of youth living in the United States today and throughout US history. Memoirs like Jacqueline…
Getting Started? Getting Going!
…draft of on her tablet; one had outlined her idea for memoir, and a recently retired nurse still had her ideas in her head. All came eager to listen and…
Spending Time with Family
…Stories: Teens can take part in the process of building family histories by recording the stories, or memoirs, of family members. Creating Family Timelines: Children can interview family members and…
The 2018 African American Read-In!
…ReadWriteThink.org this lesson gives students an introduction to Jacqueline Woodson’s verse memoir, Brown Girl Dreaming. Christopher Paul Curtis’s The Watsons Go to Birmingham — 1963 is the focus of the…
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…
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