Curated OER
Lesson Learned: Creating a Life Reports Project
Tap into the wisdom and knowledge of older members of the community with this New York Times plan. To warm up, learners write about and discuss advice they have been given. After reading "The Life Report," an op-ed column that asks older...
Curated OER
Structuring Memoir
Review the essential elements of the memoir with a presentation that reminds writers of the structural options (chronological order, in medias res, etc.) available to them. Augment the slides with memoir models to ensure understanding.
Curated OER
Writing a Personal Narrative
Students learn characteristics of an effective personal narrative. In this personal narrative lesson, students discover ways to show rather than tell, adding richness and detail to their writing. Students evaluate a news article for...
Curated OER
I love My Hair
Students explore strategies to help focus on writing a personal narrative. In this personal narrative writing lesson, students read a book and discuss how the author lets readers know how they feel. Students find a moment in their own...
Curated OER
Favorite Activity
Students write persuasive essays about favorite activities. They present on a topic of personal interest or one that has been studied in another subject area. They write a composition of a favorite activity, describing the activity and...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Bio Graph Graphing Life Events
Contains plans for four 50-minute interdisciplinary lessons that ask students to interview people and graph significant life events in order to write about those events. In addition to student objectives and standards, these...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Bio Bags Linking Literature and Life
Contains plans for five 30-40 minute lessons that ask students to create BioBags, a kind of literature autobiography. In addition to student objectives and standards, these instructional plans contains links to PDF handouts and links to...
Utah Education Network
Uen: A Book About Me
This lesson engages students in using a template to help them with personal writing. Students will gain exposure to several autobiographies and then will write their own autobiographical pieces.
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Franklin and Marshall College
Benjamin Franklin Tercentenary: Anatomy of an Autobiography [Pdf]
PDF file of a transcript of a lecture delivered by Michael Zuckerman, Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania on the topic of personal writing and autobiography using the "Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin" as an example.
Other
Impassioned: Journals, Diaries and Notebooks
This site includes examples of diaries, journals, and notebooks in the Collection at Richard Hugo House and The Diary Library of Corralitos, California. Focuses upon the genre of diaries and journals within the practice of writing....
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Write Talks: Students Discover Real Writers/audiences/purposes
There's a world of writers out there, and in this lesson students discover them as they listen to presentations from local writers and learn about what, why, and how they write in their day-to-day lives.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Creating Family Timelines Graphing Family Memories
Contains plans for five 50-minute lessons that ask learners to create time lines of their own family and life histories. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to PDF handouts and sites used in...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: It's My Life Multimodal Autobiography Project
Contains plans for nine lessons that ask young scholars to write autobiographies before creating multimedia presentations for them. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in the...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: A Hero by Any Other Name. . .
In conjunction with a study of literary or national heroes or in recognition of 9/11 week, young scholars select a hero from among their family and friends, gather information about him/her, and prepare a multimedia presentation of their...
Other
Guide to Writing a Basic Essay
Step by step guidelines to the process of essay writing. Basic, but helpful.
Letter Writing Guide
Sample Invitation Letter (Business)
This informational site provides a well-written invitation exemplar.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Writing a Hello Poem
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart guides students in the writing process to complete a poem about themselves.
Other
Cyberwriter: Narrative Writing
Cyberwriter gives narrative writing activities leveled for K-3rd grades and 4th-8th grades. A brief explanation about narrative writing is also on this page. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.W.3
BBC
Bbc Bitesize Revision: Personal Writing
As part of a revision and close reading section of BBC Bitesize, this site presents information on personal writing with six key features listed. The information is included as part of a brief series on the autobiography.
BBC
Bbc Bitesize Revision: Autobiographical Writing
As part of a revision and close reading section of BBC Bitesize, this site presents a one-page synopsis of autobiographical writing. The site examines an extract from an autobiography, then examines key features located within the extract.