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Autobiography Lesson Plans
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Learners create a personal timeline of events to begin their autobiography. In this autobiographical lesson plan, students build a description of the events of their timeline into an autobiography. Learners can explain what an autobiography is.
Fourth graders understand the characteristics of an autobiography. In this autobiography lesson, 4th graders use technology to recreate an autobiography. Students write a short autobiography of their lives.
Third graders explore the life of Ben Franklin. For this autobiography lesson, 3rd graders work together to create a timeline of Ben Franklin's life as well as their own. Students use pictures of their family to create their timeline and use the Inspiration program to create a Power Point.
Fifth graders compose autobiographies of themselves. In this autobiographies lesson plan, 5th graders write their autobiography, design a reflective cover, write an auto-bio poem, and scan pictures to illustrate their autobiographies.
Students read various autobiographies, and list the components of an autobiography. They critique an autobiography, and compose their own. They share their story with the class, and post it on the Internet.
Fifth graders research a number of autobiographies, list the components, and critique them. They write their own autobiography to post on the Internet and share with the class.
Students, who are beginning ESL students, examine the process of writing a five paragraph autobiography. They word process their final written piece after working through the editing process.
Students write a short story about themselves. In this autobiography lesson, students learn the difference between biographies and autobiographies, define the different types of autobiographies and determine how to identify which type of autobiography a book fits. Students write a short memoir.
Students create an autobiography and a family hisstory using an outline and interviews. Students present their family history and autobiography to the class. Students design and produce a symbolic representation of their family storyteller to be displayed in class.
Incorporate The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin in your AP class about nonfiction. Learners analyze the structure, style, and purpose, as well as the way Franklin utilizes different personas throughout his writing (Talkative Old Man, Dandy, Poor Boy Who Made Good). Not only is this a good literary analysis and writing lesson, it lends well to a cross-curricular activity with an American History class. Expand the lesson to individual autobiographical writing.
