Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Suggestions for Memoirs: A Letter & Memoir About a Teacher
After reading the book, Thank You, Mr. Falker by Patricia Palacco, which is about a teacher helping a student overcome a long struggle to learn to read, young scholars write a personal thank you letter to a teacher who helped them. Then...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: A Small Moment With an Important Person
A writer's workshop idea where students brainstorm a list of people who are important to them as well as one or two times they remember being with each person. Students then use these ideas to write about a small moment with someone who...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Introducing Each Other: Interviews, Memoirs, Photos, Internet
This lesson plan is designed to teach various methods students can use when researching background information on one another in order to introduce each other in written and oral form.
EL Education
El Education: Blanca Rosenberg
This memoir-style book was created by a 5th/6th grade student in Shutesbury, Massachusetts, and tells the life story of a Holocaust survivor. Blanca Rosenberg is the biography of Blanca written in first person narrative, as told to the...