ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Using Comprehension Strategies With Elie Wiesel's Night
Working in small groups, young scholars read and discuss Elie Wiesel's memoir Night and then take turns assuming the "teacher" role, as the class works with four different comprehension strategies.RI.11-12.4 Word meaning, RI.11-12.10b...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: A Small Moment With an Important Person
A writer's workshop idea where students brainstorm a list of people who are important to them as well as one or two times they remember being with each person. Students then use these ideas to write about a small moment with someone who...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Exploring and Sharing Family Stories
Writing gets personal when students interview family members in order to write a personal narrative about that person.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: The Visiting Relatives Prompt
This review discusses Ralph Fletcher's book entitled Marshfield Dreams and Cynthia Rylant's book called The Relatives Came. The author suggests that these books be used as mentor texts. In the suggested activity, learners will engage in...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Suggestions for Memoirs: Christmas Memories With a Relative
After reading A Christmas Memory, by Truman Capote, teachers are provided with a list writing activities to choose from to use with their students such as brainstorm and write about a Christmas memory with an elderly relative.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Suggestions for Writing Memoirs: Memories of a Pet or Object
This lesson, inspired by Gary Paulsen's My Life in Dog Years, helps learners write memoirs or narratives about their lives through the eyes of a pet, a favorite pair of jeans, or their shoes. Students choose one item that is very close...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Contemporary Literature: Contemporary Nonfiction
This lesson is an introduction to contemporary nonfiction including the definition, types of nonfiction: biographies, autobiographies, memoirs, essays, speeches, and diaries, examples of authors and types, key terms, essential questions,...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Suggestions for Writing Memoirs: Visualizing Memorable Details
Using the memoir The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros as a model, students focus on the details of their lives like their name and where they are from to write memoirs.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Suggestions for Writing Memoirs: Memoirs Inspired by Whimpy Diary
After reading journal entries from The Diary of a Whimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney, students brainstorm and share their own ideas with a partner. Once they have a few ideas, they choose one idea to transform into a narrative writing. The...
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: "Memoirs of a Yellow Dog" by O. Henry
Text of the short story "Memoirs of a Yellow Dog" by O. Henry. (Free site registration offers some additional features, e.g., the ability to insert annotations.)
Brigham Young University
Ambulance No. 10: Personal Letters From the Front
Read the actual writings of a member of the ambulance corps during WWI. Includes a number of interesting photos and drawings.
Other
Guernica: Tracy K. Smith: Our Best Selves Are Reserved for the Page
An interview with Tracy K. Smith, the 2017 U.S. Poet Laureate, where she discusses writing a memoir, her poetry, and David Bowie. (Published June 28, 2016)
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Introducing Each Other: Interviews, Memoirs, Photos, Internet
This lesson plan is designed to teach various methods students can use when researching background information on one another in order to introduce each other in written and oral form.
University of Oxford (UK)
First World War Poetry Digital Archive: Vera Brittain Collection
Although she did write some poetry, Vera Brittain's most important literary work was a memoir about her experiences as a nurse during World War I. Read about her life during World War I and her actions towards world peace afterward.
University of Florida
Baldwin Library: Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe (1888). This is the children's classic Robinson Crusoe plus a memoir of the author and an essay on his writings.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Suggestions for Memoirs: Learning Social Vocabulary in a Menoir
After discussing the picture book Cookies: Bite-Size Life Lessons written by Amy Krouse Rosenthal, students brainstorm the meaning of teacher-selected words. Once the students have a clear understanding of the words, they create a...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Digital Senior Memory Book
Students will design a digital story that will consist of their memories and thoughts from their whole life. After the students finish the digital book, the book will be combined into a digital presentation to be shared at a senior...
Other
The Missouri Review: Homepage
The Missouri Review includes fiction and nonfiction and is provided for by the University of Missouri.
EL Education
El Education: Blanca Rosenberg
This memoir-style book was created by a 5th/6th grade student in Shutesbury, Massachusetts, and tells the life story of a Holocaust survivor. Blanca Rosenberg is the biography of Blanca written in first person narrative, as told to the...
EL Education
El Education: Refugee Profiles
Students learn more about African history and culture through research, interviews, movies, books, and work with historians, college professors, and religious leaders. Then student write biographical stories of local refugees in first...
AdLit
Ad lit.org: Reading Discussion Guide: Cures for Heartbreak by Margo Rabb
In Cures for Heartbreak, Margo Rabb writes a fictional account of a 15-year old girl whose mother dies just days after being diagnosed with melanoma; then her father falls ill, too. Using vignettes - many appeared elsewhere as short...
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McGraw Hill
Glencoe Literature Library: "Night" Study Guide [Pdf]
A great resource for students reading Elie Wiesel's memoir, "Night," complete with an author biography, vocabulary lists, brainstorming activities, and thought-provoking writing prompts linked to specific chapters. After reading "Night,"...
Washington State University
Washington State University: Literary Movements: The Slave Narrative
In addition to defining "Slave Narrative," this website includes information on the styles and influences associated with slave narratives. Also provided, are links to several examples of nineteenth- and twentieth-century slave narratives.
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The War Times Journal: The Grand Fleet
Selections from the war time memoirs of Admiral Jellicoe who was the British naval commander at the Battle of Jutland. These writings provide a glimpse into the use of British naval tactics at the naval battle.
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