…—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…
…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…
Recently, my book club read and discussed Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi’s graphic novel memoir of her childhood during the Islamic Revolution. We were taken with the illustrations, Marjane Satrapi’s sense of…
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…
…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…
…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…
…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…
…out the ReadWriteThink.org lesson plan Introducing Each Other: Interviews, Memoirs, Photos, and Internet Research for a get-acquainted activity that invites pairs of students to learn about each other and share…
…ReadWriteThink.org this lesson gives students an introduction to Jacqueline Woodson’s verse memoir, Brown Girl Dreaming. Christopher Paul Curtis’s The Watsons Go to Birmingham — 1963 is the focus of the…
…greatest successes. Warriors Don’t Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock’s Central High by Melba Pattillo Beals The landmark 1954 Supreme Court ruling, Brown v. Board…
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