Craft & Convention--Narrative & Literary Analysis

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Narrative/Literary Analysis

Personal Story--A story told in first person voice from the author’s perspective. Based on author’s experience, contains all story elements and ends when the event ends, without reflection.

Picture Books:
My Rotten Redheaded Older Brother (Patricia Polacco)
In My Momma’s Memory (Jerdine Nolan)
Fire Flies (Julie Brinkloe)
Come on Rain (Karen Hesse)
Twister (Darleen Baily Beard)
Sunday Morning (Judith Viorst)
I Love My Hair (Natasha Anastasia Tarpley)
Welcome to Kindergarten (Anne Rockwell)
I Love Saturdays (Alma Flor Ada)
Red Rubber Boot Day (Mary Lynn Ray)
A Chair For My Mother (Vera B. Williams)
In My New Yellow Shirt (Eileen Spinelli)
Meeting Trees (Robert Hynes)
Bippity Bop Barbershop (Natasha Anastasia Tarpley)
Whistling (Elizabeth Partridge)
Red Dancing Shoes (Denise Lewis Patrick)
Salt Hands (Jane Chelsea Araagon)
Do Like Kyla (Angela Johnson)
Joshua’s Night Whispers (Angela Johnson)
Night Shift Daddy (Eileen Spinelli)
I Fly (Anne Rockwell)
Snapshots from the Wedding (Gary Soto)
Something Beautiful (Sharon Dennis Wyeth)
The Longest Wait (Marie Bradby)
Kevin and His Dad (Irene Smalls)
Apples and Pumkins (Anne Rockwell)
Into my Mother’s Arms (Sharon Jennings)
The Leaving Morning (Angela Johnson)
Sometimes I’m a Bombaloo (Rachel Vail)
My Secret Bully (Trudy Ludwig)
Sky Sisters (Jan Bourdeau Waboose)**

**Native American Perspective OR Native American Author or Illustrator

Teacher Resources:
http://www.stenhouse.com/pdfs/8180ch02.pdf (an online chapter)
Units of Study in the Writer’s Workshop (Article by Isoke Nia)
Immersion Time Table
About The Authors (Katie Wood Ray)

Narrative Memoir--Story, nearly always told in first person voice from the author’s perspective, based on a single event or a series of related events that actually happened. Generally conveys a strong sense of emotional investment. Includes elements of reflection, looking back or forward across time.

Picture Books:
Thank You, Mr. Falker (Patricia Polacco)
When I Was Young In the Mountains (Cynthia Rylant)
Christmas in the Country (Cynthia Rylant)
The Relatives Came (Cynthia Rylant)
Coat of Many Colors (Dolly Parton)
Grandpa Baxter and the Photographs (Caroline Castle)
Saturdays and Teacakes (Lester Laminack)
When I was Little: A Four Year Old’s Memoir of her Youth (Jamie Lee Curtis)*
I Dreamed I Was A Ballerina (Anna Pavlova)
When I Was Five (Arthur Howard)*
Great Aunt Flossie’s Cakes (And Crabcakes Later) (Elizabeth Fitzgerald Howard)***
My Momma Had a Dancing Heart (Libba Gray)
Some Birthday! (Patricia Polacco)
Big Mama’s (Donald Crews)
My Mountain Song (Shutta Crum)
We Had a Picnic This Sunday Past (Jacqueline Woodson)
Tar Beach (Faith Ringgold)
Sweet, Sweet Memory (Jacquelin Woodson)
Shortcut (Donald Crews)
Sitti’s Secrets (Naomi Shihab Nye)
Owl Moon (Jane Yolen)
My Visit to the Aquarium (Aliki)
Three Days On A River in a Red Canoe
Just Us Women (Jeanette Caines)***
El Chino (Allen Say)*
Something to Remember Me By (Susan V. Bosack)
Two Mrs. Gibsons (Toyomi Igus)
The Memory Box (Mary Bahr)
Good Luck, Mrs. K.! (Louise Borden)*
Tales of a Gambling Grandma (Dayal Kaur Khalsa)*
Canoe Days (Gary Paulsen)
Today I’m Going Fishing with My Dad (Chris L. Demarest)*
My Jack (Iza Trapani)
Going North (Janice Harrington)
There Are No Mirrors in My Nana’s House (Ysaye M. Barnwell)
My Mama Had a Dancing Heart (Libba Moore Gray)
The Leaving Morning (Angela Johnson)
When I was Nine (James Stevenson)
Hickory Chair (Lisa Rowe Faustina)*

Chapter Books and Anthologies:
Don’t Tell the Girls: A Family Memoir (Patricia Reilly Giff)
Childtimes: A Three Generation Memoir (Eloise Greenfield)
Going Where I Coming From: Memoirs of American Youth (Anne Mazer)
My Life in Dog Years (Gary Paulsen)
Boy (Roald Dahl)
Looking Back: A Book of Memories (Lois Lowry)
Knots in My Yo-Yo String (Jerry Spinelli)
Marshfield Memories (Ralph Fletcher)

*Not true memoir--but serves as a strong example
**Native American Perspective OR Native American Author or Illustrator
***Forward reflection

Memoir in Poetry:
Been to Yesterdays: Poems of a Life (Lee Bennett Hopkins)

Teacher Resources:
How to Write Your Life Story (Ralph Fletcher)
How to Write A Memoir (William Zinsser)
NPR Interview with William Zinsser, author of How to Write A Memoir
Units of Study in the Writer’s Workshop (Article by Isoke Nia)
Immersion Time Table
http://www.educationoasis.com/curriculum/LP/LA/memoir_stuff_life.htm
http://web2.jefferson.k12.ky.us/CCG/supp/MS_Memoir.PDF
http://www.kporterfield.com/memoir/Memoir_Alive.html
About The Authors (Katie Wood Ray)
Units of Study (Katie Wood Ray)
Wondrous Words (Katie Wood Ray)
Writing Workshop: Working Through the Hard Parts (Katie Wood Ray & Lester Laminack)

Short Story In Alternative Voice--Intended to introduce young writers to first person, second person and third person narrative as well as point of view, students should be encouraged to explore assumed first person voice. Picture books denoted in blue.

Assumed First Person Voice, Animal Characters:
My Big Dog (Picture Book, Janet Stevens--Cat’s Point of View)
The True Story of the Three Little Pigs By A. Wolf (John Scieszka)
Dear Mrs. LaRue (Mark Teague)
Little Critter Books (Mercer Mayer)
Diary of a Fly (Doreen Cronin)
Lewis and Clark and Me, A Dog’s Tale (Laurie Myers)
Bunnicula Series (James Howe)
A Dog’s Life (Ann M. Martin)

First Person Voice, Human Characters:
Encounter (Jane Yolen)**
Train to Somewhere (Eve Bunting)
Pink and Say (Patricia Polacco)
The Year of Miss Agnes (Kirkpatrick Hill)**
Junie B. Jones Books (Barbara Park)
Coming on Home Soon (Jacqueline Woodson)
Some Birthday! (Patrica Polacco)
My Rotten Redheaded Older Brother (Patricia Polacco)
I Have a Sister, My Sister is Deaf (Jeanne Whitehouse)
Going Home (Eve Bunting)
The Glorious Flight: Across the Channel with Louis Bleriot (Alice & Martin Provensen)
The Good Luck Cat (Joy Harjo)**
Night Shift Daddy (Eileen Spinelli)
Guest (Michael Doris)**
Moccasin Thunder: American Indian Stories for Today (Ed. Lori Marie Carlson)*’/**
As Long As The River Flows (Larry Loyie)**

Stories or Books Containing Examples of Second Person Voice (Picture Books Denoted in Blue)::
The Tale of Despereaux (Novel, Katie Dicamillo)
Jeremy Goldblatt is Not So Moses (Short Story in anthology: Thirteen Stories that Capture the Agony and the Ecstasy of Being Thirteen, James Howe)
The Chronicles of Narnia (In leads, C.S. Lewis)
How to Be a Baby...By Me, The Big Sister (Sally Lloyd-Jones)
Night in the Country (Cynthia Rylant)
Iktomi Stories (Paul Goble)
The Monster At The End of This Book (Jon Stone)
Hooray for You! (Marianne Richmond)
On The Day That You Were Born (Debra Frasier)
On The Night That You Were Born (Nancy Tillman)
Dear Mrs. LaRue: Letters from Obedience School (Mark Teague)
Sing a Song of Tuna Fish (Esme Raji Codell)
Before You Were Mine (Maribeth Boelts)
Clifford Books (Norman Bridwell)

Stories or Books Told Through Alternating Points of View (Picture Books Denoted in Blue):
Voices In the Park (Picture Book, Anthony Browne)
Jeremy Goldblatt is Not So Moses (Short Story in Anthology, Thirteen: Thirteen Stories that Capture the Agony and the Ecstasy of Being Thirteen, James Howe)
Flipped (Novel, Van Draanen)
I Am the Dog I Am the Cat (Donald Hale)
Hey, Little Ant (Phillip and Hannah Hoose)
Seed Folk (Paul Fleischman)
Bull Run (Paul Fleischman)
The Homework Machine (Dan Gutman)
Morning Girl (Michael Doris)**
The View From Saturday (Konigsberg)
The Pain and the Great One (Judy Blume)
Soupy Saturdays (Judy Blume)
The Girls (Amy Goldman Koss)*
Never Mind About (Avi)
The Wanderer (Sharon Creech)
Lost (Paul Brett Johnson)
Vernon and the Snake (Crystal Stranaghan)

*Recommended for mature readers
**Native American Perspective, Characters OR Native American Author/Illustrator

Voice & Perspective in Poetry:
Winter Poem (First Person--Nikki Giovanni)
My House’s Night Song (Second Person--Betsy Rosenthal)
I, Too, Sing America (First Person, Langston Hughes)
Joyful Noise: Poetry for Two Voices (Anthology, Paul Fleischman)

Teacher Resources:
http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=789
http://www.learner.org/interactives/literature/read/pov2.html
http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=23
http://www.brocku.ca/english/courses/2F55/pt_of_view.html
http://www.write4kids.com/charpov.html
Units of Study in the Writer’s Workshop (Article by Isoke Nia)
Immersion Time Table
Units of Study (Katie Wood Ray)
Wondrous Words (Katie Wood Ray)
Writing Workshop: Working Through the Hard Parts (Katie Wood Ray & Lester Laminack)