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ENGL 382: Adolescent Literature
  • Home
  • Syllabus & Schedule
  • Units
    • Unit 1: Poetry, Drama, and Short Stories
    • Unit 2: Contemporary Realistic Fiction
    • Unit 3: Adventure, Mystery, and Humor
    • Unit 4: Speculative Fiction
    • Unit 5: Auto- and Biography
    • Unit 6: Nonfiction
    • Unit 7: Historical Fiction
    • Unit 8: Graphic Formats
  • Projects
    • Research Project on Adolescent Literature or Literacy
    • Demonstration of Adolescent Literacy Teaching Strategy
    • Adolescent Literacy Curriculum Project
    • Adolescent Literature Critical Analysis and Evaluation Project
  • Discussions
    • Literature Circle Variation 1: ICQ
    • Literature Circle Variation 2: Question Categories
    • Literature Circle Variation 3: Coding the Text
    • Literature Circle Variation 4: Interactive Journal
  • Activities
    • Generating Deep Questions
    • Response Chaining
    • Mapping Events for Characters
    • Playing "Yeah, And . . ."
    • Creating Character Profiles
    • Sitting in the Hot Seat
    • Being Angels and Devils
    • Presenting Tableaux
    • Looking Through Critical Lenses
    • Playing Slow-Paced Jeopardy!
    • Writing in the Style of a Genre
    • Dialogue with a Text
    • Bloom's Taxonomy Project
    • 50 | 25 | 1 | 1 | Symbol Précis
    • Character Study
    • Major Works Data Sheet
    • Author Interview
    • Reading Ladders
    • Analyzing Graphic Novels
    • Character Party
    • Literature Tournament
    • Brown Bag Exam
  • Web Sites
    • Accudemia (Writing Center)
    • APA Style
    • APA Style Essay Template
    • Blackboard
    • Calendly (Appointments with Prof. Moberg)
    • CCSS ELA Standards
    • Citation Machine (APA or MLA)
    • DSU E-Mail and OneDrive
    • ILA Standards
    • iMoberg
    • Literary Devices
    • Literary Devices, Definition and Examples
    • Literary Devices, Terms, and Elements
    • MLA Style
    • MLA Style Essay Template
    • NBPTS Standards for ELA Early Adolescence, Adolescence, and Young Adulthood
    • NCTE Standards
    • ND Academic Content Standards
    • NetTutor (Onling Tutoring)
    • Stoxen Library Resources for Language and Literature
    • Stoxen Library Resources for Teacher Education
  • Reading Lists
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Unit 5: Auto- and Biography


Click here or to the right to read about biography (including autobiographies and memoirs) for adolescents. Especially note the criteria for selecting biography (p. 254).

Undefeated: Jim Thorpe and the Carlisle Indian School Football Team (2017) by Steve Sheinkin


Click here or below for the reading schedule for this book.

Click here or below for the literature circle roles for this book.
See also these additional resources for Undefeated:
  • Steve Sheinkin's Twitter account
  • Steve Sheinkin's Web site
  • book review from Kirkus Reviews
  • "A Teacher's Gide for Undefeated: Jim Thorpe and the Carlisle Indian School Football Team" (Macmillan)
  • "Steve Sheinkin's Undefeated Is More Than a Book about Jim Thorpe" (Indian Country Today)
  • "Young Jim Thorpe, Native American, and His Game-Changing Football Team" (New York Times)
  • "Reviewing While White: Undefeated" (Reading While White)
  • "American Football" -- a Radiolab episode with a focus on the Carlisle Indian School's influence on the sport
  • Steve Sheinkin interview by History Detectives
  • Steve Sheinkin interview by Book Page
  • deleted scene from the book (School Library Journal)
  • another deleted scene from the book (Kid Lit Frenzy)

Check out this Twitter exchange between author Steve Sheinkin and me!
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