Biography

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Major Integrated Resource (MIR)

• Issues Collections available from McGraw-Hill

Web Resources

• Writing with Writers - Biography - students learn how to research and write a biographical sketch — a story about someone's life that tells a lot about who that person is or was. Along the way, they receive research and writing strategies from writers in the field as well as a warm-up exercise to get them started.
• Saskatchewan Writes - A searchable data base with photos and biographical data on Saskatchewan authors.
• Famous Canadians - The ABC of Famous Canadians
• The Biography Maker - This web site is like those homework machines we have been hearing about for many years. It is designed to help you convert facts into insights, dull and boring information into fascination and magic. It will help you do a good job, but you must provide some of the "steam" to make it work well.
• Writing: Biographies - These sites offer tips for writing biographies. There are lesson plans, helpful handouts, rubrics, and examples of biographies written by elementary students. Includes a video about the writing process.
• Biography and Timeline Book Report - A lesson plan where rather than doing a "traditional" research paper, the author Susan Harris has her students select a biography and have the experience of actually "becoming" the person who they researched.
• Biography Writer's Workshop - Students learn how to research and write a biographical sketch, including research and writing strategies.
• Building on Biographies - Two online biography resources and 10 ways to teach biography
• How To Write a Biography - Use this outline to have your students write a biography. They can practice this skill by interviewing family members and collecting the requisite data, as outlined here.
• How To Write an Interesting Biography - Tips for creating an interesting biography.
• Biography Project: Research and Class Presentation - Students improve their comprehension in this biography project through the use of graphic organizers, rubrics, and cooperative learning. They each research a famous person, make a graphic organizer (a web), present main aspects of the person's life to the class, and give feedback to one another throughout the project.

Web Quests

• Women in Science - Students write, edit, and design a newsletter about famous women scientists.
  

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