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…
Search Results for memoir
There Is No Apolitical Classroom: Resources for Teaching in These Times
…A Theory of African-American Literary Criticism by Henry Louis Gates Jr. Warriors Don’t Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock’s Central High by Melba Pattillo Beals…
Reaching Toward a More Accepting and Equitable Society: The Work of the Language Arts in These Times
…Biographies, and Memoirs. Click here for the full calls: https://library.ncte.org/journals/la/call and here for manuscript submission guidelines: https://library.ncte.org/journals/la/write Reference hooks, b. (1994). Teaching to transgress: Education as the practice of freedom….
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…
Why “Workshop” the Canon?
…literature is detached from literacy, reading is separate from writing, and grammar is disconnected from both. We break apart genres like crackers and study poetry, memoir, short stories, then plays….
NCTE Books by Women – Update for 2020
…academic identity and, in turn, the teaching of writing and rhetoric in Immigrant Scholars in Rhetoric, Composition, and Communication: Memoirs of a First Generation. In A Symphony of Possibilities: A…
Learning about the History of Writing and Its Material Culture through DIY
…Historical Park (Massachusetts). Lucy Larcom (1824–1893), former “mill girl” turned writer and teacher, found a way to pen poetry and a childhood memoir on her compact desk, where quill, ink,…
2018 Book Recommendations: Poetry
…Books Enchanted Air: Two Culture, Two Wings: A Memoir by Margarita Engle, illustrated by Edel Rodriguez Margarita is a girl from two worlds. Her heart lies in Cuba, her mother’s…
Promoting Social Justice with High-Interest Works of Sports-Related Nonfiction
…men’s varsity basketball season in this award-winning graphic memoir. Along the way, he recounts his experiences as a teacher at the school, as a cartoonist, and as a family man….
From the Psalms of My Heartstrings: Honoring the Impact, Poetry, and Future of bell hooks in Academia
…her often cited Teaching to Transgress or All About Love, it was her poetry, which she mentions in depth in her stunning memoir, Wounds of Passion, that changed my life….
Not finding what you are looking for?
Looking for specific book, journal article or lesson plan? Run an advanced search on our sister sites, store and archive here:
Advanced Search