September 2017
Theme: The Lives of Others: Teaching Memoir, Biography and Autobiography
Artist of this issue: Carrie Grant
Contents
Affirming Life Writing: Helping Students Narrate the Tales of Their Lives
Karen Yelton-Curtis
On Teaching RIVERINE
Stephanie Paterson
Revising Rhetorically: Audience, Task, and Purpose
Tialitha Macklin and Marcy Merrill
You Remind Me Of …
Bill Younglove
Life, Death and Reading: Stories from the Backlot
Brandy Price
Literature, Re-Appropriated Language, and Respect
Jannifer Heiner
Remembering Who Feeds Us: Food Memoirs in Humanities Writing
Carla Williams-Namboodiri
Biography: The Power of Teaching Children to be Change-Agents
Margit Boyesen
Some Reasons for Reading Biography
Michael Jago
CATE Award Winners
Book Review: DISRUPTING THINKING: WHY HOW WE READ MATTERS By Kylene Beers And Robert Probst
Heather Dean
California Young Readers Medal
Features and Columns
President’s Perspective: The Power of Reading
From the Editor: Recommended Memoirs
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Call for Manuscripts
Next Issue: November 2017
Theme: TEACHING EMPATHY THROUGH LITERATURE
Social psychologists Emanuele Castano and David Comer Kidd have conducted
experiments whose findings suggest that reading literary fiction improves our capacity for
understanding how other people’s beliefs and desires may be different from our own. How
have you used literature to teach empathy? What works have elicited particularly poignant,
surprising, and powerful responses from your students? Can reading books make us better
people? Have you found nonfiction texts that have had the same effect?
Due Date: October 1, 2017