Informational+Texts

=Non-Fiction and Informational Texts are becoming more important in teaching as we prepare students for the real work of career and college. What informational texts or non-fiction works would you pair with your adolescent novel choice and what would the value of using this work be?=

New York: Penguin Group. ||= Pipher, M. (2005).Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls.New York: Riverhead Trade.
 * = Student Name ||= My choice novel ||= informational or non-fiction text choice || pedagogical reasons for pairing this text with novel choice ||
 * = Mary's Example ||= Anderson, L.H. (1999). Speak.

|| Reviving Ophelia is a non-fiction text that provides information about the need to build self esteem in young girls, to empower them to lead fully functional and satisfying lives. Melinda, the main character in Speak suffers a trauma that changes the way she feels about herself. Reviving Ophelia, speaks to those kinds of life changing experiences that damage self esteem in young adolescent girls and how to change for the better. || Grief Girl. New York: Random House || This is a true story about a 14-year-old girl who in the span of one month unexpectedly loses both parents in a tragic accident. An honest, raw account of a teenager's grief and survival. ||
 * = Elizabeth Boening ||= Crowe, C. (2003). //Mississippi Trial, 1955//. New York: Penguin Group. ||= Crowe, C. (2003).//Getting Away with Murder, The True Story of the Emmett Till Case//. New York: Dial Books for Young Readers. || //Getting Away with Murder, The True Story of the Emmett Till Case// is a non-fiction text that could supply some great background information about the death of Emmett Till and the items surrounding it like the racism that was so common during this time in the United States and especially the South. ||
 * = Matthew Boyum ||=  ||=   ||   ||
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 * = Katina Frolek ||=  ||=   ||   ||
 * = Sheena Huppert ||=  ||=   ||   ||
 * = Michele Jarosch ||=  ||=   ||   ||
 * = Danielle Johnson ||=  ||=   ||   ||
 * = Emily Nelson ||= Gaiman, N. (2008). //The Graveyard Book.// New York: Harper Collins. ||= Vincent, E. (2008).
 * = Emily Nelson ||= Gaiman, N. (2008). //The Graveyard Book.// New York: Harper Collins. ||= Vincent, E. (2008).
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 * = Zachary Rozmiarek ||=  ||=   ||   ||
 * = Stephanie Schifsky ||=  ||=   ||   ||
 * = Lori Vrchota ||=  ||=   ||   ||
 * = Jessica D'Ambrosio ||=  ||=   ||   ||
 * = Amanda McCarty ||=  ||=   ||   ||
 * = Brook Radke ||=  ||=   ||   ||