Tag: nonfiction
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Beyond the Darkness
Teaching “true crime” memoir as a crime survivor.
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You Must Be Proud
Food-themed narrative writing with Amy Tan’s “Fish Cheeks.”
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Moving Mountains with Teaspoons
Accessing memoir through fragments.
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The Ecological Autobiography
Defining one’s place in the natural environment.
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Flash Nonfiction as an Introduction to Writing Modes
Preparing students for explanatory, persuasive, and analytical composition.
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Bats in the Belfry
by Jayden (7th grade)
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Completing the Character Puzzle with Vignettes
A lesson for creating vibrant, well-crafted characters.
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Dear Diary…
Diary Writing as a Vehicle to Explore Experience
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Interview with Kevin Young
From a Place that is Necessary and Almost Unspoken
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4 Ways of Looking at a Mentor Text
Incidental Comics
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Teaching Travel Writing That Takes a Deeper Look
Ideas and Exercises to Help Students Sharpen Their Powers of Observation
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Middle Schoolers as Role Models for Peace
Three writing exercises to foster empathy.
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Secret Self-Portraits
I Turned Myself Into A Poet And I Was A Poet
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Interview with Renée Watson and Ibi Zoboi
The platform the book can provide.
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Interview with Renée Watson and Ibi Zoboi
The Opportunity to Speak Your Truth
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The Taste of Home
Food-themed poetry with refugee and immigrant students.
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Journal Writing to Define and Defend the Self
Carving Out Space in This New America
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THE CHURCHILL STYLE
A fresh perspective on a well-known historical figure and a new method of characterization
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Alastair Reid
Traveling Light
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Common, Everyday Injustices
Using Claudia Rankine’s ‘Citizen’ to prompt writing about prejudice.
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Point of View and the Pyramids
Arnold offers ideas for exploring literary point of view through studying the Egyptian pyramids.
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Irony and the Waldorf Astoria
Sarah Porter brings sarcasm to sixth-graders
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Dear Future
Here is home.