Utah Education Network
Uen: All About Me Story
This series of lessons engages students in autobiographical writing. Students will participate in pre-writing, drafting, and publishing stories about their lives.
Utah Education Network
Uen: A Book About Me
This instructional activity 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.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: American Passages: Southern Renaissance: Zora Neale Hurston
Zora Neale Hurston is featured in this biography highlighting her literary contributions which focused on African Americans as whole people, celebrating their heritage, in an era when black authors tended to write about their...
University of Groningen
American History: Biographies: Benjamin Franklin
This site from the University of Groningen provides Benjamin Franklin's complete autobiography 1706-1757.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: This Is My Life!
This assignment requires you to write about your own life, your family, and the things that are influencing you so far in your personal journey. The result will be a short autobiography of your own and hopefully a little more...
Yale University
Ynhti: My Place in Time, by Michael Conte, Jr.
This lesson site from the Yale University provides narrative, notes, and teacher and student bibliographies. Investigates the "Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin."
Other
Ray Charles Online
This personal website of Ray Charles contains a very interesting autobiography, including discussions with the artist on how he writes and arranges music in his head, how soul music and rock and roll originated, and much more.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Look at Me!
Students will write an autobiography and use pictures of themselves from past and present to illustrate it.
Other
Education Oasis: Memoir: The Stuff of Our Lives Unit
A six to eight week unit about the genre of memoir. Students will see that writers write about the ordinary happenings of their lives and will be encouraged to reflect upon the significance of remembered events. Students will keep a...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: 2.1: Narrative Essay
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Learn to write a narrative essay by identifying the differences between descriptive and narrative essays, knowing the difference between autobiographical and...
National Humanities Center
National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Frederick Douglass: Appendix to Narrative of the Life of Am. Slave
The appendix to Frederick Douglass's well-known autobiography in which he castigates Americans' embrace of Christianity as hypocritical.
Other
Isaac Asimov Home Page
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.
Nobel Media AB
The Nobel Prize: The Nobel Prize in Literature 1946
Honored "for his inspired writings which, . . . exemplify the classical humanitarian ideals and high qualities of style," Hermann Hesse (1877-1962 CE) was the 1946 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature. Read about his contributions...
University of North Carolina
Documenting the American South: Booker T. Washington (1856 1915)
Historical information on Booker T. Washington, the foremost black educator of the late 19th and 20th centuries. This site offers an overview of his greatest accomplishments, including links to his autobiography and other writings. This...
C-SPAN
C Span American Writers: Narrative of Frederick Douglass
A brief summary of The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass. Also includes an on-line text of the work as well as links to other informational websites.
Washington State University
Washington State University: Literary Movements: The Slave Narrative
In addition to defining "Slave Narrative," this website includes information on the styles and influences associated with slave narratives. Also provided, are links to several examples of nineteenth- and twentieth-century slave narratives.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: American Passages: Spirit of Nationalism: Benjamin Franklin
This is a brief biography of businessman, politician, scientist, and author Benjamin Franklin. Click "Benjamin Franklin Activities" for related materials.
University of Toronto (Canada)
University of Toronto: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
This University of Toronto site provides information on Samuel Taylor Coleridge. The text of some of his works is provided.
Other
Utilitarianism.com: John Stuart Mill (1806 1873)
Summary of Mill's most important writings as tied to the events in his life. His most controversial was "On Liberty," written in 1859, on the decline of individualism and the fear of mass democracy. Some critics point to the influence of...
Scholastic
Scholastic: Gary Soto
This resource provides Gary Soto's brief autobiography in which he discusses his writing. Also the transcript to an interview with Soto is given along with book reviews by students.
Other
Brass Check: Tell the Truth and Run George Seldes
Read about George Seldes (1890-1995), a muckraker and press critic. Read some of his writings from his column "In Fact." Read his autobiography and a brief biography. There are links to other sites about George Seldes. Site by Brass Check.
Virginia Tech
Virginia Tech: Betsy Byars: Techniques and Themes
Teachers with classes reading the works of Betsy Byars will find information on this prolific author's craft.
Other
Literature Unit: "A Day No Pigs Would Die"
This site features questions for each of the chapters in Robert Newton Peck's "A Day No Pigs Would Die."
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Writer's Model: Autobiographical Narrative Example
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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