Books for Units of Study in Writer's Workshop

Memoir

Memoir ~ A story about me but it has a reflective element to it. It's a looking back at a snapshot of ones life that has had an impact on ones life now. Often contain one or more personal narrative. Can be structured as a list or story. Big Mama's House by Donald Crews Shortcuts by Donald Crews There Are No Mirrors in my Nana's House by Ysaye M. Barnwell My Mama Had a Dancing Heart by Libba Moore Gray In My Mama's Kitchen by Jerdine Nolan (vignettes) Childtimes by Elosie Greenfield The Leaving Morning by Angela Johnson We Had a Picnic This Sunday Past by Jacqueline Woodson Chicken Sunday by Patricia Palacco Hairs by Sandra Cisneros Going Home by Eve Bunting Just Us Women by Jeannette Franklin Cainses The Two of Them by Aliki When I Was Young in the Mountains by Cynthia Rylant (listbook) Once There Were Giants by Martin Waddell Hickory Chair by Lisa Rowe Nana Upstairs and Nana Downstairs by Tommie dePaola Up North at the Cabin -Marsha Chall The Summer My Father was Ten -Pat Brisson When I was Little -Jamie Lee Curtis When I was Nine -James Stevenson Grandpa's Garden -Shea Darian The Copper Tin Cup -Carole Lexa Schaefer From Kaie Wood Ray's memoir list in her book Study Driven Calling the Doves/El canto de las palomas by Juan Felipe Herrera Christmas in the Country by Cynthia Rylant Saturdays and Teacakes by Lester Laminack The Trip Back Home by Janet Wong Two Mrs Gibsons by Toyomi Igus Memoir Vignettes I Thought My Father Was God and Other True Tales fro NPR's National Story Telling Project, Paul Austere, editor Linda Brown, You Are Not Alone: The Brown v. Board of Education Decision, Joyce Carol Thomas, editor The Milestones Project: Celebrating Childhood Around the World, Richard and Michele Steckel, editors Guys Write for Guys Read, Jon Scieszka, editor The Circuit: Stories from a Life of a Migrant Child by Francisco Jiménez Marshfield Dreams by Ralph Fletcher My Father's Summers ­ A Daughter's Memoir by Kathii Appelt Somehow Form a Family: Stories That Are Mostly True by Tony Early A Summer Life by Gary Soto

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