…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…
…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…
…Year (Gruchow, 2009), and Shadow Mountain: A Memoir of Wolves, a Woman, and the Wild (Askins, 2004). The concept of a terrestrial also resonates with my thinking about what it…
…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…
…Imagine by Juan Felipe Herrera, illustrated by Lauren Castillo This beautiful memoir in verse celebrates the life of former US Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera. The reader journeys throughout Herrera’s…
…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,…
…that led Woodson to write about the joys and challenges of growing up in the Civil Rights era. Use this memoir to explore poetic devices, analyze how Woodson develops a…
…high school readers, an outstanding book for increasing the national empathy quotient is Melba Pattillo Beals’s childhood memoir, March Forward, Girl. Years before she signed on to be one of…
…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…
…Castillo because her experiences echo my own as Latinx. In her memoir, Black Dove, Castillo details how her son suffered from depression and got involved in an unarmed robbery. Castillo…
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