So Many Books. So Many Challenges.
…been challenged multiple times. Frankly, most of the really good books are being taught, and they’re being challenged. Unlike Asir Nafisi’s students described in her memoir Reading Lolita In Tehran,…
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Choice and Interest Make the Difference for Second-Semester Seniors
…“Coronavirus Memoirs.” Author Study: Stephen King: A deeper dive into the master of horror’s short stories, novellas, film adaptations, and novels (e.g., IT, The Outsider, The Shining). We will begin…
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’…
What Can Comics Do? Tapping Into Empathy and Flexibility
…of any genre—from memoir to Western to science fiction—include the possibility for thinking about characterization and character development, themes, plot development, vocabulary knowledge, engagement with challenging text, thinking about ideas…
Valuing Little Javiers: Reflections from NCTE 2022
…about his inspiring and gripping migration journey chronicled in his memoir, Solito. In a nutshell, Solito is Javier’s nine-year-old self narrating his story about not having a choice but to…
Build Your Stack: Size Diversity
…by Angie Manfredi A collection of essays, poems, memoir, and more by authors Julie Murphy, Jes Baker, David Bowles, and others, describing their experiences as unapologetically fat in a thin-centered…
A Turning Point for Pennsylvania’s Book Bans
…A Memoir, are powerful tools to allow those without support for their identities to find empowerment. According to PEN America’s “2023 Banned Books Update: Banned in the USA,” “Overwhelmingly, book…
“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…
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…
Shining Globally
…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…
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