Biographies, Memoirs, Poetry, and Short Stories
Expand students’ perspective on literature by helping them understand and appreciate a variety of forms like poetry, short stories, memoirs, and biographies.
Teacher Resources
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Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl is a very emotional work of literature. It offers students an opportunity to reflect on their own lives and the complexity of the human personality as they read the... more
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Beowulf/Grendel by Anonymous/John Gardner
An Anglo-Saxon epic, Beowulf is as full of suspense, action,
blood, and gore as any contemporary movie. The nature of heroism, the
virtues of Anglo-Saxon kingship, and the loyalty of kinsmen and sworn
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The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
This amazing anthology contains the types of stories popular in the medieval period. The Canterbury Tales' pilgrims represent diverse social backgrounds. Written in Middle English, these tales form a... more
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The Member of the Wedding/A Christmas Memory by Carson McCullers/Truman Capote
The Member of the Wedding focuses on the search and struggle that Frankie, the protagonist, experiences in successfully navigating the treacherous waters of adolescence. This story is set in a small,... more
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The Color of Water by James McBride
A Black Man’s Tribute to His White Mother
The story of Ruth McBride Jordan tells of the two kind and remarkable men she married, and the twelve outstanding children she raised, largely by herself in the South from the 1930s to 1980s. The memoir... more
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The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
The Divine Comedy is a personalized history of Dante’s time and city. The citizens of Florence, the heroes of classical antiquity, popes, kings, emperors, villains, and saints—the whole gamut of humanity... more
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Dubliners by James Joyce
Fifteen stories present working-class people in turn-of-the-century Dublin. The unified artistic collection emphasizes grim realities: human limitations, unfulfilled longings, societal paralysis, disappointments,... more
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Farewell to Manzanar/Black Like Me by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and James D. Houston/John Howard Griffin
This autobiography presents an experience of discrimination in the America of the 1940s, during World War II. The author remembers her life as a young Japanese girl who is sent to an internment camp with... more
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The Greatest Generation by Tom Brokaw
The Greatest Generation, a nonfiction work reveals through personal accounts the values, work ethic, integrity, and sense of community of men and women in combat, as well as those who were left on the... more
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is the first of many autobiographical works of Maya Angelou. The work follows the life of young Maya (Marguerite) through periods of stability and security until she becomes... more
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The Iliad by Homer
Arguably the greatest war story in Western literature, The Iliad describes a conflict that has drained both sides. Inside the walls of Troy, there is talk of sons and brothers who have already been cut... more
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Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster
With an elegiac tone and chilling narration, Into Thin Air recounts the travails of the climbers who lost their lives in the May 1996 tragedy on Mount Everest. Initially hired to write a magazine article... more
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The Odyssey by Homer
The Odyssey has remained for centuries the finest example of the folk epic. It describes Odysseus’s journey home from the Trojan War and his struggle to regain his kingdom and family. Included are many... more
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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich/Man's Search for Meaning by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn/Viktor Frankl
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich is set in a labor camp in Stalin's Russia. It demarcated Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn as a spokesperson for the experiences of suffering. He offers a message of hope implicitly... more
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass, once a house slave and field hand, wrote his autobiography after becoming a speaker for the Massachusetts Antislavery Society. Fearing re-enslavement after its publication, he fled... more
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Night by Elie Wiesel
Night is a memoir by a Nobel-Prize-winning author who survived Auschwitz during World War II, when he was a teenager. After his escape from a concentration camp and a ten-year silence, he decided to document... more
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Profiles in Courage
One of President Kennedy’s greatest legacies, Profiles in Courage documents what he believed to be significant acts of moral courage. In a time when politicians’ greatest efforts appear to be to reward... more
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Red Scarf Girl/Chinese Cinderella by Ji-li Jiang/Adeline Yen Mah
This memoir describes the Cultural Revolution in China. Red Scarf Girl opens with a strong, happy family and a young girl, Ji-li, who seems to have a charmed life. As the novel progresses, Ji-li finds... more
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Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
Something Wicked This Way Comes, a wonderfully scary novel, examines the seductive nature of evil. Set in a small Midwestern town, the mythical hamlet of Green Town, Illinois, the novel follows the misadventures... more
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Survival in Auschwitz by Primo Levi
Primo Levi’s approach in Survival in Auschwitz is unique. As a chemist, Levi uses an analytical thought process to examine the mind of the perpetrator and the victim, to distinguish between good and evil,... more
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