The Art of Biography

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 13.03.07

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Context
  2. Rationale
  3. Guiding Question
  4. My Biography Assumptions
  5. Objective
  6. Curricular Plan
  7. My biography reeducation
  8. Using pictures to tell the story
  9. Walt Disney
  10. Basic Structure of Class Time
  11. Strategies
  12. Activities
  13. Bibliography
  14. Appendix
  15. Notes

A picture is worth a thousand words: Rediscovering biography

Audra K. Bull

Published September 2013

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Bibliography

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Gabler, Neal. Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination. 1. ed. New York: Knopf, 2007.

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Homberger, Eric, and John Charmley. The Troubled Face of Biography. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1988.

Kahneman, Daniel. Thinking, Fast and Slow. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011.

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Lomask, Milton. The Biographer's Craft. New York: Harper & Row, 1986.

Mlodinow, Leonard. Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior. New York: Vintage Books, 2012.

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Rollyson, Carl. American Biography. Lincoln, NE: iUniverse, 2006.

Rollyson, Carl E.. Biography, a user's guide. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2008.

Stewart, Whitney, and Nancy Harrison. Who was Walt Disney?. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 2009.

Tougas, Shelley. Little Rock girl 1957: how a photograph changed the fight for integration. Mankato, Minn.: Compass Point Books, 2012.

Watts, Steven. The Magic Kingdom: Walt Disney and the American way of life. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1997.

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