US National Archives
Essays, Speeches, and Memoirs of Field Marshall Count Helmuth Von Moltke
Published in 1893, this as a collection of English translations of writings and speeches by Helmuth von Moltke the Elder, one of the foremost military strategists of the nineteenth century. Many of the documents in this collection are...
University of Pennsylvania
Project Gutenberg.: Memoirs of Aaron Burr, With Correspondence
Project Gutenberg offers the complete text of Aaron Burr's correspondence online in plain text format.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Suggestions for Memoirs: A Letter & Memoir About a Teacher
After reading the book, Thank You, Mr. Falker by Patricia Palacco, which is about a teacher helping a student overcome a long struggle to learn to read, students write a personal thank you letter to a teacher who helped them. Then they...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Suggestions for Writing Memoirs: Visualizing Memorable Details
Using the memoir The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros as a model, young scholars focus on the details of their lives like their name and where they are from to write memoirs.
Hanover College
Hanover College: The Memoirs of Otto Von Bismarck
Tow selections from the memoirs of the "Iron Chancellor." One describes the war with Austria and the other selection deals with the war against France.
Open Library of the Internet Archive
Open Library: The Happy Death; Or Memoir of Mary Jane
This ebook version of General Protestant Episcopal Sunday School Union's The Happy Death; Or Memoir Of Mary Jane has been made available in multiple formats by the Open Library. Editions of the full novel, organized by year of...
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: "Karain: A Memoir" by Joseph Conrad
Text of the short story "Karain: A Memoir" by Joseph Conrad. (Free site registration offers some additional features, e.g., the ability to insert annotations.)
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: "Memoirs of a Yellow Dog" by O. Henry
Text of the short story "Memoirs of a Yellow Dog" by O. Henry. (Free site registration offers some additional features, e.g., the ability to insert annotations.)
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: "The Giver" and Descriptive Writing
Online lesson plan uses the novel "The Giver," to teach students the importance of writing descriptive memoirs. Students write these descriptions individually after seeing their significance through the reading.
CommonLit
Common Lit: "Funeral" by Ralph Fletcher
In this excerpt from his memoir, Ralph Fletcher describes taking a trip into the forest with his friends. As you read, take notes on how Ralph's friends feel about him. [Free account registration required for specific tools.]
Other
A Soldier's Diary: The Memoirs, Diary and Life of Private Jefferson Moses
A treasure trove of primary source material from an ordinary Union soldier. Read his memoirs, diary, and see artifacts from his life.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Suggestions for Memoirs: Christmas Memories With a Relative
After reading A Christmas Memory, by Truman Capote, teachers are provided with a list writing activities to choose from to use with their learners such as brainstorm and write about a Christmas memory with an elderly relative.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Introducing Each Other: Interviews, Memoirs, Photos, Internet
This lesson plan is designed to teach various methods middle schoolers can use when researching background information on one another in order to introduce each other in written and oral form.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Memoirs About Telling Lies That Hurt
Book reviews about Walter Dean Myers' Bad Boy and Madonna's Mr. Peabody's Apples are given on this site. The author suggests that using these books to help illustrate the concept that it better to tell the truth than to suffer the...
Other
A Memoir of Jane Austen by Her Nephew
A fascinating personal look at the famous author, this site divides the work into well-labeled chapters. Downloadable.
University of South Florida
Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Lit2 Go: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Biographical material about Doyle, and complete texts of many of his works. These include: "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes," "Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes," "The Return of Sherlock Holmes," "His Last Bow," "The Mystery of Cloomber," and...
PBS
Pbs: Archives of the West: Across the Plains in 1844
A memoir by Catherine Sager Pringle, one of the orphans who was taken in by Marcus and Narcissa Whitman. Find out about the journey on the Oregon Trail and the Whitman Massacre.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Contemporary Literature: Survival
This is an introduction to a unit on survival literature; it focuses on the memoir Night by Elie Weisel, hie story of survival of The Holocaust.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Contemporary Literature: Contemporary Nonfiction
This lesson is an introduction to contemporary nonfiction including the definition, types of nonfiction: biographies, autobiographies, memoirs, essays, speeches, and diaries, examples of authors and types, key terms, essential questions,...
Project Gutenberg
Project Gutenberg: The Enormous Room by E. E. Cummings
Resource provides the ebook of this famous World War I memoir, The Enormous Room, by E. E. Cummings. The book is written in part in Cummings's unconventional poetic style.
Other
A Teacher's Resource for Night by Elie Wiesel
This teacher's resource provides opportunities for close reading of Elie Wiesel's memoir, Night. This resource is published by the nonprofit group, Facing Voices of Love and Freedom.
The Best Notes
The Best Notes: The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls
This is a study guide and a chapter-by-chapter summary for the memoir The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls.
Virginia Tech
Virginia Tech: Special Collections: American Civil War Manuscript Guides
A large repository of letters and diaries from both Union and Confederate soldiers, homefront letters, memoirs, and contemporary research files. Includes materials from the war years, 1861-1865, as well as materials from later periods...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Contemporary Nonfiction: Elements of Nonfiction
This lesson focuses on the elements of nonfiction including types of nonfiction such as biographies, autobiographies, memoirs, newspaper editorials, speeches, and essays. It features links to a chart of the types of nonfiction and an...
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