Creating Lives: An Introduction to Biography

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 10.03.08

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Introduction and Rationale
  2. Strategies
  3. Notes
  4. Works Cited
  5. Resources for Teachers
  6. Resources for Students
  7. Appendix A

Voices of France: Understanding the Power of Individual Voice through Biography

Deborah Monroy

Published September 2010

Tools for this Unit:

Resources for Teachers

B., David. L'Ascension du haut mal, tome 1. 1ST ed. Paris: L' Association, 2000.

Read with students as an example of a graphic memoire/biography.

Curie, Eve. Madame Curie: A Biography. New York and Washington D.C.: Da Capo Press, 2001.

Biography of Marie Curie. Students read an excerpt.

Damrosch, Leo. Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Restless Genius. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2007.

Biography of Rousseau. Students read an excerpt.

Fraser, Antonia. Love and Louis XIV: The Women in the Life of the Sun King. 1932. Reprint, New York: Anchor, 2007.

Biography of Louis XIV. Students read an excerpt.

Proust, Marcel, and Stéphane Heuet. A la recherche du temps perdu. Tournai: Delcourt, 2007.

Graphic rendition of Proust's novel used to show what can be done with graphics. Pages 15-17 are particularly useful.

Robb, Graham. Balzac: A Biography. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1996.

Biography of Balzac. Students read an excerpt.

"ReadWriteThink: Student Materials: Bio-Cube." Homepage - ReadWriteThink. http://www.readwritethink.org (accessed July 29, 2010).

An example of a biocube.

Satrapi, Marjane. Persepolis. Integrale ed. Paris: L'Association, 2007.

An example of a graphic memoir. "Le legume" is a good chapter to read. There are no page numbers.

Spiegelman, Art. The Complete Maus: A Survivor's Tale. New York: Pantheon, 1996.

Taylor, Larissa Juliet. The Virgin Warrior: The Life and Death of Joan of Arc. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009.

Biography of Joan of Arc. Students read an excerpt.

Volkmann, Jean-Charles, and Samuel Buquet. 100 Dates de l'histoire de France. Luçon: Gisserot, 2000.

The book I used for creating the master timeline.

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