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…
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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 El Día de Los Niños/El Día de Los Libros (Children’s Day/Book Day)!
…or alienate themselves from tools and literacies passed on between generations of people. “Exploring Heritage: Finding Windows into Our Lives” details how eighth-grade students create memoirs after investigating family members’…
Who Am I Becoming through My Fellowship with CNV?
…the genre I am using here and how to describe it. I regard this text as the opening episode of a micro-comparative memoir, a genre with at least two meaningfully…
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…
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…
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…
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….
The Dreams and Nightmares/Sueños y Pesadillas Project
…—Liliana Velásquez, author of Dreams and Nightmares/Sueños y Pesadillas Dreams and Nightmares/Sueños y Pesadillas is a memoir by teenager Liliana Velásquez, who at 14 fled Guatemala by herself to escape…
Making Connections to AARI Books, Week 3
…few ideas for how these texts can be used in our classrooms come from NCTE, its members, and friends. Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson is a memoir, telling the…
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