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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: It's My Life Multimodal Autobiography Project

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Contains plans for nine lessons that ask students to write autobiographies before creating multimedia presentations for them. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in the lessons as...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Autobiographical Magazines

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
This assignment is designed for learners to tell about themselves through writing and creative media. The students compile original articles and illustrations into an autobiographical magazine.
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BBC

Bbc Bitesize Revision: Autobiographical Writing

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
As part of a revision and close reading section of BBC Bitesize, this site presents a one-page synopsis of autobiographical writing. The site examines an extract from an autobiography, then examines key features located within the extract.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Digital Autobiography

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
In this lesson plan, middle schoolers will create original poetry and prose and will assemble a written autobiographical booklet in a middle school language arts class. After all poetry and prose are written, students will create a...
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Bibliomania

Bibliomania: The Autobiography, Letters, and Other Writings of Benjamin Franklin

For Students 9th - 10th
Read Benjamin Franklin's autobiography online, along with other writings.
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Other

Education Oasis: Memoir: The Stuff of Our Lives Unit

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
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...
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: 2.1: Narrative Essay

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
[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...
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National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Frederick Douglass: Appendix to Narrative of the Life of Am. Slave

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The appendix to Frederick Douglass's well-known autobiography in which he castigates Americans' embrace of Christianity as hypocritical.
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Washington State University

Washington State University: Literary Movements: The Slave Narrative

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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Penguin Publishing

Penguin Random House: "Frederick Douglass American Slave" [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Teacher guide for Douglass's biography features 24 pages of chapter-by-chapter study questions, quotations, and activities. Valuable post-reading activities as well as methods for eliciting student responses also included. This is a .pdf...

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