Students create a book of biographies in order to profile famous Olympic athletes through history. In this biography writing lesson, students research information about historic Olympians, first by listening to a short biography on Jesse Owens, and then by reading other provided resources. Students author a short biography about an Olympic athlete of their choice to contribute to a whole class book on Olympians.

Concepts

olympic athletes, the olympics

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Additional Tags

class book, olympic athletes, reading biographies, writing biographies, english language arts

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