Biography writing middle school

A COMPLETE 82-PAGE UNIT – NO PREPARATION REQUIRED

By this stage, your students should have an excellent technical overview of a biography’s essential elements

They should be able to choose their subject in light of how interesting and worthy they are, as well as give consideration to the availability of information out there

The historical context is equally important

Since there are people who have influenced every academic discipline, assigning a biography can be a cross-disciplinary or inter-disciplinary writing assignment

Middle and high school teachers should allow students to have a choice in selecting the subject for a biography

The genre of biography can also be categorized in the sub-genre of narrative nonfiction/historical nonfiction

When a teacher assigns a biography as a writing assignment, the purpose is to have a student utilize multiple research tools to gather and to synthesize information that may be used as evidence in a written report about an individual