Introduction
Young students love to tell the stories of their lives. So many of their experiences are happening to them or around them for the first time, making each memorable and, frankly, formative. As adults, we still carry such intensely meaningful events as memories formed by the powerful impact they had on our senses and feelings.
This six-to eight-week unit is designed for second graders to learn that biographies, the lives of people, are written expressions of memories and stories. The memories and stories in this case will be their own. The students will be introduced to the autobiographical stories of two children's authors, Patricia Polacco and Tomie dePaola. These mentor texts will set the foundation for the students to write, illustrate and publish their own autobiography of small moments in a series of bound picture books. Their inspiration and information will come from personal photographs at home and at school as well as from their own drawings and art work.
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