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- Grade Range
- Kindergarten - 5th
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Students work together in small groups to create a poster that displays the information from a biography in a graphic organizer. Full Review »
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- 3rd - 8th
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Students use graphic organizers for research of the Negro Baseball League. They investigate the lives of various former players and write biographies about them. Working in pairs, they edit each other's biographies. They share their biographies with other students in the school. Full Review »
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- 4th - Higher Ed
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Students conduct research for biographical information on a person they select. They write information on note cards and place the information appropriately on a graphic organizer. Full Review »
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- 3rd
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Students read a biography, then rsearch the perso on the Interne. Full Review »
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- 6th - 8th
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Students research important individuals in American history and create a picture book biography of their findings. Full Review »
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- 3rd - 5th
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Students explore several different types of biographies to determine their area of interest, choose one notable person they would like to explore, complete online tutorial on biographies, and use written and Internet resources to research one person. Full Review »
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- 6th - 8th
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Students discuss the differences between biographies and autobiographies. They read excerpts from several texts an complete a graphic organize to note details or his life. Full Review »
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- 2nd
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Students explore today's jobs and use graphic organizers to classify them as providing a good or a service. A variety of resources, such as fiction and nonfiction literature, artifacts, photographs and diaries, are used to acquire information about daily life and the types of jobs that existed in the past. Full Review »
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- 7th
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Students determine how to evaluate and synthesize nonfiction using essays and biography. They examine how to organize material for individual pieces of writing. They examine a biography of Martin Luther King, Jr. and a piece of personal writing by a fellow student using a graphic organizer. Full Review »
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- 7th - 8th
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Students examine informational text, specifically historical magazine articles. They practice identifying fact and opinion in articles by using context clues and create graphic organizers in the form of time lines and flowcharts to use while reading the articles. Full Review »

