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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Narrative Non-Fiction Excerpts and Short Pieces
- Sherman Alexie: Superman and Me http://articles.latimes.com/1998/apr/19/books/bk-42979
- Amy Tan: Mother Tongue
- 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