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Biography

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We are learning what a biography is and brainstorming a person that we want to learn more about.

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What is a biography?

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Brainstorm Chart

  • What do you know about someone living?
  • What do you know about someone who has lived in the past?

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Your Job For Today:

Who do you want to know more about?

  • Presidents
  • Athletes
  • Celebrities
  • Scientists
  • Inventors
  • Activists

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We are learning to pick a person that we want to learn more about.

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Review Brainstorm Chart

  • Who would be an interesting person to know more about?
  • Share with a partner?
  • Share Out to the Group

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Your Job for Today:

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We are learning what we need to include in a biography.

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What do we need to include about a person’s life?

Think about your own life!

What is important for someone to truly know you?

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Let’s model

our

influential person

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Your Job for Today:

  • Work on what you can for the remainder of the class time.

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We are learning what a timeline is and what is included in one.

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Timeline

  • What is a timeline?
  • How might we use a timeline when talking about someone’s life?
  • What kind of things should we include in a timeline?

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Turn and Talk:

  1. When were you born?
  2. What interesting thing did you do in 1st Grade?
  3. What interesting thing did you do this year?

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Your Job for Today

  • In your timeline, include when and where your person was born and when and where they died (if they are someone who lived in the past)

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We are learning how to use a timeline in a biography.

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Review Timeline

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Your Job for Today:

In your timeline you will need to include two major events from your person’s life.