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All About Me
Students practice biographical and autobiographical forms of writing: autobiography, biopoem, character traits, classmate biography.
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Auto-Bio Poem
Learners create an autobiographical poem. In this writing lesson, students write an eleven line autobiopoem after read the teacher's model. Learners include their name, fears, and family in the poem.
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Personality Poems
Students create a bio-poem for themselves or characters in stories they have read. They explore common character traits.
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Poetry Portraits
Students consider the attributes of heroes. In this literature lesson, students read selected poems from Hesse's Out of the Dust and then create their own bio-poems that feature themselves as heroes.
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I Just Learned About the Coolest Person
High schoolers present information on the public lives and work of a chosen philanthropist. They write bio-poems highlighting the work of philantropists.
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Freak the Mighty: Chapter 18 Semantic Feature Analysis
Intelligent? Arrogant? Obnoxious? After completing Chapter 18 of Freak the Mighty, individuals fill out a semantic feature chart for characters in Rodman Philbrick's novel. Group members then use their charts to discuss relationships...
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All About Me - A Poem
Second graders brainstorm unique qualities they possess in a All About Me worksheet. They write free verse poems about things that most people don't know about them. They brainstorm descriptive words to enhance their poems and rewrite them.