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Picture Books

Picture This by Molly Bang (Illustrator)
Call Number: 741.6 BAN
ISBN: 9781452135151
Publication Date: 2016
"[Illustrates and describes] how the visual composition of images works to engage the emotions, and how the elements of an artwork can give it the power to tell a story".

Memoir/Autobiography

Six-Word Memoirs

Sample Memoirs/Autobiographies

What Slaves Are Taught To Think of The North by Harriet Ann Jacobs (1861)

From Lithuania to the Chicago Stockyards by Antanas Kaztauskis (1904)

Shooting an Elephant by George Orwell (1936)

Excerpt from "Notes of Native Son" by James Baldwin (1955)

Little Things Are Big by Jesus Colon (1961)

HERS; A Puerto Rican Stew by Esmeralda Santiago (1994)

This is Not Who We Are by Naomi Shihab Nye (2002)

Endless Summer Job by Caroline Ferrell (2007)

In My Mom's Shoes by Kat Chow (2016)

Excerpt from "You Don't Have to Say You Love Me" by Sherman Alexie (2017)

Assignment Information

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Essays and Speeches

New Yorker
"The New Yorker is considered by many to be the most influential magazine in the world, renowned for its in-depth reporting, political and cultural commentary, fiction, poetry, and humor."
Vanity Fair
"Vanity Fair features in-depth reporting, gripping narratives, and world-class photography, plus heaping doses of Oscar-blogging, royal-watching, and assorted guilty pleasures. Every month,the magazine commissions the best writers and photographers to explain the pressing issues of the day and take the pulse of the culture. "
Rolling Stone
"Rolling Stone is an American monthly magazine that focuses on music, politics, and popular culture." (Wikipedia)
Harper's Magazine
"Harper’s Magazine, the oldest general-interest monthly in America, explores the issues that drive our national conversation, through long-form narrative journalism and essays."
Medium
"Discover stories, thinking, and expertise from writers on any topic."
Best Essays of All Time - Ranked
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The Rumpus - Essays
"A place to read, on the Internet. A literary community."
40 Best Essays of All Time (With Links)

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Sample Essays and Speeches

Of Revenge by Sir Francis Bacon (1625)

Of Studies by Sir Francis Bacon (1625)

On the Education of Youth in America by Noah Webster (1788)

On Various Kinds of Thinking by James Harvey Robinson (1921)

Fear of Change by Henry Ford (1922)

Excerpt from A Room of One's Own Chapter Three by Virginia Woolf (1929)

How It Feels to Be Colored Me by Zora Neale Hurston (1979)

Fear Is Simple and Profound by Julia Buttery Hill (1999)

Cultural Common Ground Gets Harder To Come by Elizabeth Blair (2011)

Life Isn't Fair — Deal With It by Mike Myatt (2011)

Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance by Angela Lee Duckworth (2013)

What Fear Can Teach Us by Karen Thompson Walker (2013)

The Leaders Who Ruined Africa and the Generation Who Can Fix It by Fred Swaniker (2014)

How I Found True Love in an Arranged Marriage by Surabhi Surendra (2015)

Thresholds of Violence by Malcolm Gladwell (2015)

Everyday Life as a Learning Experience How Historic Living Enriches the Modern World by Sarah A. Chrisman (2016)

The Gospel of Doubt by Casey Gerald (2016)

Let's Teach for Mastery — Not Test Scores by Sal Khan (2016)

In Praise of Single Moms on Mother's Day by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon (2017)

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