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All About Me

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders write a story of their life. Using digital pictures and other photographs, 7th graders create a storyboard of their life. They create a video containing pictures, music and a recorded summary of the events depicted.
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If I Could Have Been Somebody Else

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students research a specific person from American history who played a significant role and had an impact on future events and situations. They write a multi paragraph essay which includes three reasons explaining why they would have...
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Colonial North Carolina

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students resarch people and events from a given list. Then based on teacher options, students employ perspectives, an audience, a presentation format, and topic to prepare a two-page document to share with the class. Students also...
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Biography Bounce

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders review important people in history by participating in a "Biography Bounce." The students bounce rubber or soccer balls after correctly identifying the person presented by the teacher.
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Writing A Biography

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students choose an interesting person to research for a biography. They gather the information they want to include in their paper from various sources. Students write an outline to use as a guide when writing their biography.
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Tracing the Impact of Historical Figures

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Pupils discuss impact of various historical figures from different periods in time, read about and take notes on one assigned historical figure, and create photo journals of their experiences.
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Autobiographical Postage Stamp

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Pupils design a postage stamp that communicates to the world who they are, what they hope to be, what they are good at, and factual information. They use, "My Great Aunt Arizona" by Gloria Houston as a model for a biography.
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Fictional Biographies

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students read and discuss the fictional biography, "Strega Nona: Her Own Story" by Tomie dePaola. They compare the characters of the story to other fictional characters then choose their own favorite fictional character to write a...
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Biography Crossword Puzzle

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders examine the Age of Exploration. They complete a crossword puzzle and review their answers. They discuss the explorers impact on the new world.
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The Stories Behind the Masterpieces

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students examine Rembrandt's self-portraits and discuss important events in his life. They also examine "Aristotle with the Bust of Homer" and try to identify with the person in the paining, predicting what his life might have been like....
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Biography Flashcards

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students choose a modern biographical figure and research that person on the internet. They write a page summary of the person's life and collect images of their person to include in the report. They glue everything to tagboard to create...
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Good Brother, Bad Brother

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Studetns study how biographers create characters and history of individuals in biographies. They complete a variety of writting activities to demonstrate understanding.
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Biographies in a Box Come to Life

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students use the Internet to research someone's biography.
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Career Biographies

For Teachers 8th - 11th
Learners choose an occupation that they would like to pursue and write a career biography that outlines the path they would need to follow to achieve their goals.
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The Life of Dolley Madison

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students research the life of Dolley Madison through selected website pages. They read a timeline, letters and background information and view images. They choose 10 events from her life and fill in a chart.
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Living Biographies

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders present a dramatic living biography of a famous person based on previous reading and research.
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Who Me? A Writer?

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Learners interview another student using a twenty question format and write a three-part biography of that person. They create a collage representing the person they interviewed.
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On Top of the World

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students listen to excerpts from an autobiography about the first blind man to reach the summit of Mt. Everest. They discuss Erik Weihenmayer's life, and write a bio-poem using a bio-poem formula.
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Author Background/Investigation

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students research an Accelerated Reader author and write a two page report summarizing relevant information about the author. They include personal data, professional data, and at least one quote from someone who has read one of the...
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Richard Nixon: Man and President (2 parts)

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Learners watch the video "Richard Nixon: Man and President, complete vocabulary work and discuss the video using the question provided.
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Eleanor Roosevelt: A Restless Spirit

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students observe an intimate view of the life of Eleanor Roosevelt including her childhood experiences and personal relationships, it explores her role in American politics, civil rights, and foreign affairs.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mit: Internet Classics Archive: "Marcus Cato," by Plutarch

For Students 9th - 10th
A biography of Cato written about two centuries after his death by the famous Latin historian Plutarch.
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Harcourt: Biographies: Thomas Jefferson (Spanish)

For Students 9th - 10th
A brief biography on Thomas Jefferson with pictures and links.
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Harcourt: Biographies: Martin Luther King, Jr.

For Students 3rd - 8th
This biography of Martin Luther King Jr. includes a timeline and addresses the life of the civil rights leader from childhood to the legacy he left behind.