ELA-Author-Fore-LNF

Author's Craft - Foreshadowing - Print - Literary Nonfiction Resources

 * E1-E4 //(needs explanatory sentences, review for variety)//**
 * //A Child Called "It": One Child's Courage to Survive//**//,//** Dave Pelzer. Memoir. Copyright 1995. ISBN-10: 1558743669, ISBN-13: 978-1558743663.


 * //Angela's Ashes//, Frank McCourt. Memoir. Copyright 1999. ISBN-10: 068487217X.


 * //Black Boy//, Richard Wright. Autobiography. Copyright 2008. ISBN-10: 0061443085, ISBN-13: 978-0061443084. The 4-year old author burns down the house and is beaten for the deed. He then imagines a future of deed and punishment with mind-bending hopelessness.


 * //Rocket Boys//, Homer Hickman, Jr. Memoir. Copyright 2000. ISBN-10: 0385333218, ISBN-13: 978-0385333214.


 * **//'//**//Tis: A Memoir//, Frank McCourt. Memoir. Copyright 2000. ISBN-10: 0684865742.


 * //The Pact//, Drs. Sampson Davis, George Jenkins, Rameck Hunt. Memoir. Copyright 2006. ISBN-10: 0132393492, ISBN-13: 978-0132393492.


 * //Pale Male: Citizen Hawk of New York City//, Janet Schulman, illustrations by Emilo So. Picture book/Nature memoir. Copyright 2008. ISBN-10: 0375845585, ISBN-13: 978-0375845581.


 * //Owen and Mzee: The True Story of a Remarkable Friendship//, Isabella Hatkoff, Craig Hatkoff, Dr. Paula Kahumbu, illustrated by Peter Greste. Picture book/Nature memoir. Copyrigth 2006. ISBN-10: 0439829739, ISBN-13: 978-0439851138.


 * //What To Do About Alice?: How Alice Roosevelt Broke the Rules, Charmed the World, and Drove Her Father Crazy!//, Barbara Kerley. Picture book biography. Copyright 2008. ISBN-10: 0439922313, ISBN-13: 978-0439922319.


 * //Notes of a Native Son//, James Baldwin. Essay. Copyright 1984. ISBN-10: 0807064319, ISBN-13: 978-0807064313. The horrific opening paragraph is both personal and forboding about the world ooutside the personal. In the end, Baldwin has more questions about that world to be answered later still later.


 * //Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West//, Dee Brown. History. Copyright 2007. ISBN-10: 0805086846, ISBN-13: 978-0805086843. The narrative is preceded whit a quotation from Tecumseh. The opening paragraph quotes Columbus reorting to "your Magesties" of Spain that the Tiano Indians are so "tractable, so peaceful." This tribe was completely "obliterated."