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March 17, 2018

Autobiography

Literature Book #2. 

Same process. Read. Make readers’ notes. Participate in a literature discussion. Write a post. 

Review your Literature Book #1 reader’s notes. Match them to the notes on the whiteboard. Review the reader’s note rubric.

Establish a goal for this second set of notes. In your ‘journal’, set-up a goal page. 

The Autobiography

Paragraph One:

Paragraph Two:

Paragraph Three:

Paragraph Four:

Paragraph Five:

Paragraph Six:

Paragraph Seven:

Paragraph Eight:

 Introduction

Personality Characteristics

Personal Interests

School Life

Personal Concerns

Favourite Holiday

My Future

Conclusion

We begin with paragraph two and three.

Writing Paragraph Two

For paragraph two, Personality Characteristics, write a paragraph using the same format demonstrated below: 

There are three personality traits that make me exceptional including rowdy, humorous, and resourceful. I play a lot of team sports and I really enjoy the violent ones. I get more excited and interested in a sport, if there is a chance that I might be personally injured. I love the risk of extreme sports. Luckily, I usually have a good sense of humour about getting hurt. Last summer I was supposed to be an usher at my brother’s wedding but two days before the ceremony, I broke my leg playing lacrosse. So I showed up anyway, in a wheelchair and made fun of how my cast didn’t match my tuxedo top. I can usually be pretty resourceful in a difficult situation. This was again true at the same wedding, where in order to dance, I just had my dancing partner steer me around the dance floor in any crazy way. I was pretty popular that night. Overall, you can see how these three characteristics make me unique in my daily life and interests.

Using these three characteristics, write a paragraph which also answers the following questions:

You have many personality traits that make you the special person you are. Identify three of these characteristics and describe them. Give specific examples to illustrate what you mean.

Hints:

Write your paragraph using three of the characteristics from your chart. You should choose the three characteristics which:

  • Are most different from each other
  • Are easiest to prove with evidence from your life experience

For paragraph three, Personal Interests, write a paragraph using the same format demonstrated above.

Write a paragraph which answers the following questions:

Describe your main interests, the various things you really enjoy doing. Use a number of examples to illustrate exactly what activities, situations and people interest you.

Hints:

Write your paragraph using three or four personal interests or hobbies.

Again, choose interests that:

  • Are most different from each other
  • Are easiest to prove with evidence from your life experience

 

March 4, 2018

Autobiography Assignment

Note on Assessment and Evaluation: Policy page review

Writing an Autobiography

How well do you know yourself? Do you think that your friends and family have a different perception of you? Many of us have different personalities when we’re with different people. Many of us have characteristics that seem like complete opposites.

List of Human Characteristics Handout:  All of these words describe aspects of personality. Some are antonyms and some are almost synonyms, but no two words express exactly the same quality. In this activity, you will discuss yourself, your interests, your future plans, your concerns in your first long writing piece: an autobiography.

Journal Practice: While reading the list, record all of the words that pertain to your personality. Do you notice any synonyms? Are there any words that are antonyms? If there are any words that are new to you, feel free to look them up in the dictionary or thesaurus as you go. Click here to visit a very useful online dictionary.

Example Paragraph

The following paragraph is a model of how each body paragraph of your autobiography will look.

There are three personality traits that make me exceptional including rowdy, humorous, and resourceful. I play a lot of team sports and I really enjoy the violent ones. I get more excited and interested in a sport, if there is a chance that I might be personally injured. I love the risk of extreme sports. Luckily, I usually have a good sense of humour about getting hurt. Last summer I was supposed to be an usher at my brother’s wedding but two days before the ceremony, I broke my leg playing lacrosse. So I showed up anyway, in a wheelchair and made fun of how my cast didn’t match my tuxedo top. I can usually be pretty resourceful in a difficult situation. This was again true at the same wedding, where in order to dance, I just had my dancing partner steer me around the dance floor in any crazy way. I was pretty popular that night. Overall, you can see how these three characteristics make me unique in my daily life and interests.

You will follow the same structure for all of your body paragraphs in the autobiography that you will be writing.

Assignment #1

Before Reading

  1. From the List of Human Characteristics handout, choose five of the characteristics to describe yourself.
  2. Now, choose five characteristics to describe one of your friends or someone in your family. Try to choose someone who is quite different from you to help you complete the comparison chart.

Using your answers above, complete the following comparison chart.

Click here to download a copy of the chart.

Journal Work

Prepare the following answer to discuss with your teacher and classmates. Briefly identify one of the characteristics you chose in the Before Reading activity and describe the evidence to support your characteristic. Find someone else in the class who has a similar characteristic and discuss:

  1. Other characteristics you might share with that person
  2. Other pieces of evidence that you might share with that person

Lit circle questions prepped for tomorrow’s literature circle.