Review Sheet for Nonfiction Test
Directions: On a SEPARATE sheet of paper, make 3 bullet points notes about EACH of
these stories. You will keep this sheet and turn in your notes for a grade. You may
work with a partner, but you each must turn in your OWN notes sheet.
Your book:
“Single Room, Earth View” by Sally Ride pg. 468 (descriptive essay)
“White House Diary” by Lady Bird Johnson pg. 104 (autobiography)
“My English” by Julia Alverez pg. 114 (autobiography/reflective essay)
“Carry Your Own Skis” by Lian Dolan pg. 522 (persuasive essay)
“Libraries Face Sad Chapter” by Pete Hamill pg. 530
“I Have a Dream” by Dr. Martin Luther King Junior pg. 542 (persuasive speech)
“Before Hip-Hop Was Hip-Hop” by Rebecca Walker pg. 431 (autobiography/reflective
essay)
Green Book:
“Go Deep to the Sewer” by Bill Cosby pg. 368 (narrative essay)
“Fly Away” by Ralph Helfer pg. 373 (narrative essay)
“The Talk” by Gary Soto pg. 380 (reflective essay)
“Aha Moment” by Julia Alverez pg. 466 (reflective essay)
In Class:
“Hair” by Malcolm X (expository essay)
Directions: Make sure you have all of these items in your notes. If not, see a classmate
and ask to copy their notes, or see the blog.
Rhetoric – ethos, logos, pathos
Journalism Texts – newspapers. magazines, online sources
Types of Journalism – interviews, columns, reviews, articles, editorials, editorial cartoons
Essays: formal/informal Essays: narrative, descriptive, expository, reflective, persuasive
Diaries and Journals Autobiography, Memoir, Biography
Speeches – How-To
Text Connections: Self, World, Text, Inference, Visualization, Language