Independent Reading

Independent Reading is 20% of your grade. Beginning the week of April 22, we will start every day with 10 minutes of silent independent reading. The first book you read must be a memoir of your choice. After that, you are free to read whatever you want!

Here are some memoir possibilities on Goodreads. Teen Ink also has a good list. Below are some other memoirs you may be interested in reading:

-My Bloody Life: The Making of a Latin King by Reymundo Sanchez
-Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
-The Pregnancy Project by Gaby Rodriguez
-I am a Seal Team Six Warrior: Memoirs of an American Solider by Howard Wasdin
-Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmeal Beah
-I am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced by Nujood Ali
-Tweak: Growing Up on Methamphetamines by Nic Sheff
-Running With Scissors by Augusten Burroughs

-A Million Little Pieces by James Frey

-Bad Boy by Walter Dean Meyers

-Red Scarf Girl by Ji Li-Jiang
-Dust Tracks on a Road by Zora Neale Hurston
-Smashed: The Story of a Drunken Girlhood by Karen Zalickas
-Jesus Land: A Memoir by Julia Scheeres
-The Diary of Ma Yan: The Struggles and Hopes of a Chinese Schoolgirl by Ma Yan
-Twilight People: One Man's Journey to Find His Roots by David Houze
-Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt
-The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
-The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
-Bossypants by Tina Fey
-Geisha, A Life by Mineko Iwasaki