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…
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Celebrating The National Day on Writing® with Texts from NCTE – Part 3!
…circulate and accrue between writers and readers. Immigrant Scholars in Rhetoric, Composition, and Communication: Memoirs of a First Generation shares the experiences of first-generation immigrant scholars in rhetoric, composition, and…
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…
Trouble in Comic Land
…Alison Bechdel was selected as a text in the 12th grade and AP Literature curricula at Watchung Hills Regional High School in New Jersey. Then it was challenged. The memoir,…
Build Your Stack: Roses “That Grew from Concrete”
…concrete? On the Come Up is developmentally appropriate for ninth-grade students and older. Tara Westover, in her memoir Educated, illustrates the unconventional childhood that she experienced at the…
When the Teacher is Ready: An Anthology
…students, my future ones, and even myself—all once six-year-olds with number 2 pencils in our hands. I consider the semester I taught poetry and memoir for older adults at a…
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…
Choice and Interest Make the Difference for Second-Semester Seniors
…poetry, short stories, movie reviews, “Coronavirus Memoirs” Author Study: Stephen King: A deeper dive into the master of horror’s short stories, novellas, film adaptations, and novels (i.e. IT, The Outsider,…
Book Tasting by Genre
…different genres (nine fiction genres plus autobiography, biography, and memoir), with information arranged on two facing pages. Here’s a description of the steps we followed. At the beginning of the…
Build Your Stack®: Preparing Students to Engage in a Global World: Reading the World in ELA Classrooms
…for over 75 years. Other stories I recommend for Palestine are They Called Me a Lioness by Ahed Tamimi and Dena Takrur, a memoir written for adolescents that elevates the…
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