Adams, Timothy Dow.
Telling Lies in Modern American Autobiography
. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1990. Critical analysis of truth in narratives exploring the blurred line between fact and fiction in autobiographical works.
Booth, Wayne C.
The Rhetoric of Fiction, 2
nd
Edition
. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1983. Classic text of criticism of fiction which examines the techiques authors use to persuade readers to accept what they are reading.
Booth, Wayne C.
The Rhetoric of Irony
. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1974. Critical exploration of constructed irony in fictional texts. Booth argues that direct irony in some ways suggests an unreliable narrator and cannot be taken at face value by readers.
Butler, Charles ed.
Teaching Children’s Fiction.
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. Compilation on teaching children’s fiction.
Eggers, Dave.
What is the What: The Autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng
. San Francisco: McSweeney’s, 2006. A fictionalized recounted autobiography of an actual Lost Boy of Sudan.
Elkin, Judith. “Teaching Children’s Fiction.”
Teaching Children’s Fiction
. Ed. Charles Butler. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. 152-171. Chapter within a compilation. Argues that students should be exposed to all forms of modern literacy, including digital forms.
Frey, James.
A Million Little Pieces
. New York: Anchor Books, 2005. Controversial memoir which explores drug abuse, alcoholism, and life low points that was found to have embellishments after topping the
New York Times
nonfiction list.
Isay, David.
Listening is an Act of Love: A Celebration of American Life from the StoryCorps Project
. Penguin Audio; Abridged edition (November 8, 2007). Audio recording of interviews of everyday Americans about life and relationships from NPR’s StoryCorps Project.
Gardner, Howard.
Frames of Mind: Theory of Multiple Intelligences
. New York: Basic Books, 1993. Educational theory book that stresses that educators should recognize and value the various intelligences that we all possess in different distributions.
Literacy Department.
Grade 10 Language Arts Curriculum
. New Haven, CT: New Haven Public Schools, 2007-2008. Guide to the curriculum map to the standards addressed in New Haven Public Schools in English.
Microsoft. “Recognize phishing scams and fraudulent e-mails.” Microsoft 12 Feb. 2008. 24 May 2008. http://www.microsoft.com/protect/yourself/phishing/identify.mspx>. Web-based article describing the key characteristics of a phishing e-mail.
Murray, Jaye.
Bottled Up.
New York: Puffin, 2004. Fictional narrative of a wayward high school student dealing with a tumultuous home life with substance abuse.
Myers, Walter Dean.
Monster: A Full-Cast Dramatization.
Dir. Charles Potter. Random House Audio Publishing Group, 2000. Audio book of the novel
Monster
.
Myers, Walter Dean.
Monster.
New York: HarperCollins, 1999. Teen novel about a young black male being in the wrong place at the wrong time and thus being charged for murder. Intersperses journaling with narrative requiring the reader to be the juror.
“Myspace Terms & Conditions.” Myspace.com. 28 Feb. 2008. 24 May 2008. http://www.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=misc.terms>. Document from the Myspace Terms and Conditions which describes basic rules to which participants must adhere.
Prensky, Marc. “Digital Natives Digital Immigrants.”
On the Horizon
9 (2001): 1-6. An article arguing that students have developed as natives in the digital age, requiring teaching style and content to adapt to address their needs and learning styles.
Salinger, J.D.
The Catcher in the Rye
. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1951. Classic fictional narrative of a cynical adolescent who has just been expelled from prep school.
Stelter, Brian. “From Myspace to Yourspace.”
The New York Times
. 21 Jan. 2008. 24 May 2008 http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/21/technology/21myspace.html?scp=7&sq=myspace&st=nyt>. Article examining the explosion of Myspace in the social-networking scene around the world.
The Smoking Gun,
A Million Little Lies: Exposing James Frey’s Addiction to Fiction
, http://www.thesmokinggun.com/jamesfrey/0104061jamesfrey1.html. (3/18/2008). This article critiques the book
A Million Little Pieces
and the fiction that topped the
New York Times
Nonfiction Bestseller list.
White, E.B.
Charlotte’s Web.
New York: Harper & Row, 1952. Children’s story of a pig and other barn animals personified and that transcend animal boundaries. It also exemplifies the power of the written word.
Wikimedia Foundation.
Wikipedia
. 25 May 2008. www.wikipedia.org.>. User-edited, open-source encyclopedia.
