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Podcast: Brave New Teaching: A Podcast for High School and Middle School Teachers
Episode: EPISODE 119: BIOGRAPHY & MEMOIR AS MENTOR TEXTS COLLABISODE: NONFICTION SERIES PART 4
Description: For part four of our nonfiction series, we’re looking at using biography and memoir as mentor texts. You’ll hear how we define and use mentor texts in our own classroom. We’ll also give you some specific mentor texts that we recommend using, and our reasoning behind those texts. Since we love a good collabisode, we’ve also crowdsourced some great ideas from our colleagues and friends. They will be sharing their favorite biography and memoirs to use as mentor texts, how it provides a powerful teaching moment, and what students can do with that mentor t...