Biographies and Autobiographies
Unit Goals:
Literary Analysis:
Reading:
Writing and Grammar:
Vocabulary:
Academic Vocabulary:
Unit Goals:
Literary Analysis:
- Identify form and characteristics of biography, autobiography, personal essay, and historical drama
- Read and identify characteristics of primary sources and newspaper articles
Reading:
- Identify chronological order
- Maker inferences and draw conclusions
- Summarize
- Identify treatment and scope
- Evaluate texts for usefulness
Writing and Grammar:
- Write a personal narrative
- Write a short biography
- Punctuate titles with italics and quotation marks
Vocabulary:
- Recognize base words
- Understand and use Latin roots
Academic Vocabulary:
- biography
- autobiography
- personal essay
- historical drama
- primary sources
- personal narrative