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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Bio Bags Linking Literature and Life

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Contains plans for five 30-40 minute lessons that ask students to create BioBags, a kind of literature autobiography. In addition to student objectives and standards, these instructional plans contains links to PDF handouts and links to...
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Other

Autobiography: e.l. Konigsburg

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Following this brief autobiographical sketch, there are is a biographical statement, a list of works written by the author, and a list of works about the author.
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Bartleby

Bartleby.com: Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography

For Students 9th - 10th
An autobiography by Theodore Roosevelt.
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: American Literature and Comp: Rationalism: Vocabulary

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on the literary terms needed for the unit on Rationalism. I provides a list of terms and a crossword puzzle using them.
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Contemporary Literature Course Overview: Mla Format

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson focuses on the MLA formatting guidelines. It offers a MLA format video presentation followed by a self-quiz on the information. It provides links to the MLA website and Purdue Owl Online Writing Lab: MLA Formatting and Style...
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TES Global

Tes: Autobiography Resources

For Students 5th - 9th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students will learn the difference between biography and autobiography with these resources. PowerPoint lessons, biographical paragraphs, and autobiographical paragraphs are provided.
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Stanford University

Sheg: Document Based History: Reading Like a Historian: Snapshot Autobiography

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] What is history? And why do historical accounts differ? In this lesson, students create brief autobiographies and then reflect on the process to better understand how history is written. Exploring these...
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Utah Education Network

Uen: All About Me Story

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
This series of lessons engages students in autobiographical writing. Students will participate in pre-writing, drafting, and publishing stories about their lives.
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Utah Education Network

Uen: A Book About Me

For Teachers K
This lesson engages students in using a template to help them with personal writing. Students will gain exposure to several autobiographies and then will write their own autobiographical pieces.
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Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: 103 Things to Do Before/during/after Reading

For Students K - 1st Standards
The highly-respected Reading Rockets program offers both teachers and students a toolkit of ways to connect more actively with the materials they read. Some of these techniques are specifically for fiction-reading, others are designed...
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University of North Carolina

"Life and Times of Frederick Douglass": Text

For Students 9th - 10th
HTML full text of the "Life and Times of Frederick Douglass," the autobiography of the 19th century African American abolitionist (1818-1895).
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HotChalk

Hot Chalk: Lesson Plans Page: Writing an Autobiography Using Pictures

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
This is a 4-day lesson plan on how to write an autobiography. Students also learn to take digital pictures of themselves and use them in their writing.
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Write It: Memoir

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Write It Memoir offers a complete writing workshop to develop your personal story. Search your memory through the brainstorming activities to launch your piece. Draft a map of the memories along with reading other models. As the process...
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Writer's Model: Autobiographical Incident Essay

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
This two-page essay provides an example of an autobiographical incident essay. Clicking on the "Writer's Guide" link in the upper right-hand corner of the page enables the user to get tips, directions, and explanations on the essay.
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Writer's Model: Autobiographical Narrative Example

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
This four-page essay provides an example of an autobiographical narrative. Clicking on the "Writer's Guide" link in the upper right-hand corner of the page enables the user to get tips, directions, and explanations on the essay.
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University of Groningen

American History: Biographies: Benjamin Franklin

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from the University of Groningen provides Benjamin Franklin's complete autobiography 1706-1757.
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Yale University

Yale New Haven Teachers Institute: Autobiography: Maya Angelou

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Unit plan that focuses on autobiography and the writings of Maya Angelou, especially her novel "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings." It is from the Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute, and is intended for grades 10-12. Also includes...
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E Reading Worksheets

E Reading Worksheets: Genre Worksheets

For Teachers 3rd - 9th Standards
This learning module provides remediation with identifying genre of books and various texts. Practice with capitalizing nouns is provided with through worksheets, an online site, and a video tutorial. .
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Rick Beach

Teaching Literature to Adolescents, 2nd Edition: Understanding Adolescents

For Teachers 5th - 9th
The textbook entitled Teaching Literature to Adolescents, 2nd Edition contains activities for Chapter 2 reflection. Intended for teachers, this site contains activities that will extend the content from the Chapter 2. Young adult...
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University of Florida

Baldwin Library: Puff: An Autobiography by Katharine S. Macquoid

For Students K - 1st
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book Puff: An Autobiography by Katharine S. Macquoid (1888). It is an autobiography of the dog Puff.
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Franklin and Marshall College

Benjamin Franklin Tercentenary: Anatomy of an Autobiography [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
PDF file of a transcript of a lecture delivered by Michael Zuckerman, Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania on the topic of personal writing and autobiography using the "Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin" as an example.
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Other

Isaac Asimov Home Page

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource covers every aspect of Asimov's prolific writing career. Biographical information, movie connections, short story collections, lists of Asmiov's works are all here.
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Other

Impassioned: Journals, Diaries and Notebooks

For Students 9th - 10th
This site includes examples of diaries, journals, and notebooks in the Collection at Richard Hugo House and The Diary Library of Corralitos, California. Focuses upon the genre of diaries and journals within the practice of writing....
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Other

Literature Unit: "A Day No Pigs Would Die"

For Students 6th - 8th
This site features questions for each of the chapters in Robert Newton Peck's "A Day No Pigs Would Die."