Narrative Non-Fiction Scrapbook
In order to represent your working definition of narrative non-fiction, you will create a digital or physical “scrapbook” of excerpts from non-fiction pieces you are reading. You are looking for lines from the text that represent the characteristics of narrative non-fiction or are just plain good writing. What makes it look like a scrapbook is up to you.
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Check out this model for inspiration! Be sure to use the excerpts from published authors below to help search for quotations. (Remember, you are innovating your own scrapbook design...anything goes.)
Narrative Non-Fiction Excerpts and Short Pieces
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- Sherman Alexie: Superman and Me http://articles.latimes.com/1998/apr/19/books/bk-42979
- Ned Vizzini: From Teen Anxt? Nahhh: "Nintendo Saved Me" and "Fifteen Minutes"
- Also from Teen Anxt- "Goofy Foot Forward"
- Michael Chabon: The Secret Skin From The New Yorker
- Jay-Z: From Decoded
- Amy Tan, "Mother Tongue"
- When I Was a Child Solder, by Valerie Zanatti- Excerpt
- Glass Castle By Jeanette Walls- Excerpt
- A Long Way Gone By Ishmael Beah- Excerpt
- Bossypants by Tina Fey- Excerpt