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- Grade Range
- 4th - 5th
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Students choose a famous person to write a one to three page report about. They conduct research using electronic encyclopedias, biographies, and videos. When students have all presented their reports, the class has a party. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 11th - 12th
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Students research biographies and develop hypotheses about conditions for women at various points in history. They utilize a worksheet imbedded in this plan to organize their findings. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 7th - 8th
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Students create a newsletter report about the subject of the biography. The report includes five paragraphs and a list of interesting additional facts. They scan/transfer, and/or cut and paste graphics/photos related to the biography. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 3rd - 5th
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Students read biographies and design a presentation about the person chosen for research using Inspiration, Keynote, and World Book Timeliner. Students use Inspiration as a note-taking tool and create their presentations on Keynote and Timeliner. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 4th
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Students discuss the components of a tall tale in that it is fiction, contains exaggeration, and heroes and/or heroines. They listen to biography of John Muir and complete the activities comparing a tall tale to the biography's characteristics and match vocabulary words to their meanings. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 5th
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Students read and compare and contrast a biography and a talltale. They read a biography of John Muir, and match vocabulary words with their definitions. Next, they complete an information map about John Muir, and answer comprehension questions on a worksheet. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 6th
- Rating
Students compare and contrast a tall tale and a biography of John Muir. They follow along while the teacher reads the biography, and complete a vocabulary matching activity. Students then complete an information map about Muir, and independently complete a comprehension worksheet. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 8th
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Students identify the impact of the political and social changes in North Carolina after the Civil War. Using their text, they explain the role of agriculture, textile and tobacco in the area and how it helped economically develop the area. They use their notes to write a fictional biography based on a real person who lived and worked in the tobacco industry. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 6th - 8th
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Students create a professional looking biography using digital cameras and word processing. They write using the writing cycle method of brainstorm, compose, revise, edit and final copy. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 4th
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Students read a biography book, collect notes, then conduct additional research on the individual. Students create a PowerPoint presentation about the individual with a minimum of 7 slides, identify twelve vocabulary words that can be used to describe their individual and make a word search. Full Review »
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