Prison Poetry in Tumultuous Times
…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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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….
A Significant Influence: Describing an Important Teacher in Your Life
…One popular text by Albom is Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life’s Greatest Lesson. It went on to become one of the top selling memoirs…
Build Your Stack: Books for Advanced High School Students That Will Create a Classroom of Deep Thinking
…students to topics that may not find discussed in depth until they are older or in college. Heavy by Kiese Laymon is a newer text—a memoir that discusses racism and…
A Tribute to a Giant: Remembering Richard “Dick” Robinson
From Kylene Beers, NCTE President, 2008–2009 The books are award-winning and iconic: Front Desk (Kelly Yang); Child of the Dream: A Memoir of 1963 (Sharon Robinson); the Harry Potter series…
Celebrate the Birthday of Marjane Satrapi
November 22 is the birthday of the Iranian-French graphic novelist Marjane Satrapi, born in Rasht, Iran (1969). She wrote the graphic novel Persepolis, an illustrated memoir of her childhood during…
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…
Teaching Global Citizenship and Multicultural Education during the COVID-19 Global Pandemic
…Autobiographies and memoirs provide an insight into a person’s life as well as into the person’s culture and history. This is evident in the collection of autobiographies edited by Ariel…
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…
Learning from Successful Challenges against Book Bans in 2022
…a “record year” for states seeking to curtail LGBTQIA+ rights and the year that saw Maia Kobabe’s graphic novel Gender Queer: A Memoir become the most banned book in the…
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