Autobiographies and Biographies

This week we have also been learning about the differences between autobiographies and biographies. The students need to be able to determine the differences, the point of view (first and third person) and the words that let them know what type of text it is. The first day they interviewed someone to create a biography about them.

You can get this from Amy Lemon's blog by clicking HERE.

 

Today we shared what they wrote about and we discussed if they learned anything new about that person (mom, dad, grandma). Some of them didn't know certaint things about their family and ended up learning a lot!

 

Today we discussed what an Autobiography was and watched a short video on brainpopjr. The students started their daily journals today as their own autobiographies. In these journals, they were able to free write about anything they wanted. Things that they just need to get off their chest, what they did over the weekend, what they did last year, etc. Some on the entries I read made me almost cry! You never know what children are going through and how they feel if you don't take the time to really listen to them. With these journals, I am hoping to learn more about my students. The students will have until 8:00am to finish their journal entry. If they complete n entry, a full page and turn it in by 8am, I will read it and write them back that day. I may change it to 7:45am, we will just see how it goes.

 

We also played a game I created called Autobiography and Biography SCOOT! The students rotated at stations and recorded the words that showed the text was either an autobiography or biography. It was a really fun game. We didn't get to the autobiography part but we will do that tomorrow!

You can get the full version and explanation of the game HERE.