The Art of Biography

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 13.03.06

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Introduction
  2. Rationale
  3. Demographics
  4. Essential Understanding
  5. Content
  6. Strategies
  7. Classroom Activities
  8. Bibliography/Teacher Resources
  9. Appendices
  10. Notes

Will They Remember Me? Finding Our Identity by Writing Memoirs and Biographies

Michelle Wiedenmann

Published September 2013

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Bibliography/Teacher Resources

Allen, Janet. Holt McDougal literature: Texas grade 6. Texas ed. Evanston, Ill.: Holt McDougal, a division of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010.

College Board, Spring Board Textual Power Level 1, United States. 2010. Sixth grade text that I will be using that provides Dan Greenburg's memoir "My Superpowers".

Couser, G. Thomas. Memoir: an introduction. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. A text meant as a resources for teachers that defines the genre memoir and gives examples to use with various age-levels.

Gaddis, John Lewis. The Landscape of History: How Historians Map the Past. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. A description of history, and why someone should take the time to study history, and how the study of history is easily linked to the study of science and mathematics.

Hamilton, Nigel. How to do biography a primer. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2008. A text defining biography and the various approaches one can take in writing a biography of another person.

Lee, Hermione. Biography: a very short introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. Text that defines biography and instructs readers how to approach writing a life story using examples of other famous literary works.

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