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Writing Strategies: Autobiographies and Memoirs

Writing Strategies: Autobiographies and Memoirs. Ellen Warren Rachel Sims Stephanie Jordan. SS GPS Standard. SS3H2 The student will discuss the lives of Americans who expanded people’s rights and freedoms in a democracy.

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Writing Strategies: Autobiographies and Memoirs

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  1. Writing Strategies: Autobiographies and Memoirs Ellen Warren Rachel Sims Stephanie Jordan

  2. SS GPS Standard • SS3H2 The student will discuss the lives of Americans who expanded people’s rights and freedoms in a democracy. a.Paul Revere (independence), Frederick Douglass (civil rights), Susan B. Anthony (women’s rights), Mary McLeod Bethune (education), Franklin D. Roosevelt (New Deal and World War II), Eleanor Roosevelt (United Nations and human rights), Thurgood Marshall (civil rights), Lyndon B. Johnson (Great Society and voting rights), and César Chávez (workers’ rights). b.Explainsocial barriers, restrictions, and obstacles that these historical figures had to overcome and describe how they overcame them.

  3. SS EQ’s and LO’s • EQ.A: Why is it important to know about different people that impacted American history? • LO.A: Students will be able to identify key figures in American history that expanded people’s rights and freedoms in a democracy. • EQ.B: Why did these barriers need to be addressed? • LO.B: Students will be able to identify different social barriers, restrictions, and obstacles they faced in their particular areas.

  4. ELA GPS Standard • ELA3W2 The student writes in a variety of genres, including narrative, informational, persuasive, and response to literature. The student produces informational writing (e.g., procedures, report, and correspondence) that: h. May include prewriting

  5. ELA EQ and LO • EQ: What do you know about prewriting during the process of an autobiography and/or memoir? • LO: Students will be able to pre-write and autobiography and/or memoir.

  6. What is the difference between an autobiography and memoir? • Autobiography- an account of a person's life written by that person • Memoir- a historical account or biography written from personal knowledge

  7. What is prewriting? • Prewriting is the first stage of the writing process. • One way you can prewrite is to use a graphic organizer to organize your thoughts. • On a graphic organizer you should have: • The topic • Main ideas/ points • Theme • Setting

  8. Born in Hyde Park, New York Ran for Vice President in 1920 Served as presidents for 4 terms Diagnose with Polio Married Eleanor Roosevelt One of the world’s greatest presidents Memoir of Franklin D. Roosevelt

  9. Assessment • Autobiography • Organize your graphic organizer about your life. • Reference back to the graphic organizer of Franklin D. Roosevelt.

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