interest center grade 6 maria rouco and joel nalley
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Interest Center Grade 6 Maria Rouco and Joel Nalley. I need my students to understand that :. 1. Biographies are stories about a person’s life . 2. B iographies teach us about our own lives and history . 3. Biographies can be biased as can autobiographies - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Interest CenterGrade 6Maria Rouco and Joel Nalley
I need my students to understand that:1. Biographies are stories about a
person’s life.2. Biographies teach us about our
own lives and history.3. Biographies can be biased as
can autobiographies4. Bio means life and graphy
means writing or field of study.
Task Card #1 Write a biography about one
of your family members. Use the guide located: http://www.greatlifestories.com/pressroom/article3.html
Make sure you have answered all 50 questions satisfactorily from the page.
Do not just write the answers, write the biography like it is a book. Include the answers in your paragraphs. Make sure you have an introduction and closing.
Task Card #2Research a famous person from
the last 20 years. Create a portrait/caricature of this
person.Make sure the portrait
demonstrates their personality traits and why they are important.
Write a short paragraph on the back of the portrait explaining what this person’s life taught you.
Bring in a real picture of this person
You can find resources to get started in the interest center.
Task Card #3 Listen to the CD ONE by the
Beatles. Think about how their songs are
a form of biography and tell a story of their lives.
Think about how music helps other people understand their own life.
Choose a few of the songs from the CD and analyze their lyrics. What do the songs say about the writer? (Usually McCartney or Lennon).
Create your own CD of songs that tell your story and explain why each song is part of your biography. Keep in mind how the music we make and listen to says who we are.
Task Card #4 One of the best ways to
learn about a person’s life is to see how they act in certain situations.
Choose a famous person and write and perform a play that tells us about their life.
Use the books, dvds, or internet resources available to research your person.
Keep in mind the elements of a good play, costumes, dialogue, script, stage directions, music, set, props, etc.
Laptop with internet access.
CD playerTv with DVD playerPhotographs of
various peoplePast student projects
that model effective/creative work
Bust of Julius CeasarGustav Eiffel’s towerMarkers and pencilsPoster sized paper
Artifacts:
Audio Visual Itouch Ipod IpadEar phonesSpeakersCD’s (Beatle’s ONE,
the collected works of Vivaldi, Beethoven, Mozart, etc.)
Laptop with internet access (youtube clips, 8trax.com, grooveshark, etc.)
Print Materials:- My Life – Bill Clinton (Autobiography)- Lincoln – Gore Vidal (Historical Fictional Biography)- The Diary of Anne Frank (Diary/Memoir)- Several Issues of Biography Magazine- The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin- The Autobiograpy of Malcolm X (ghost written
autobiography)- Steve Jobs – Walter Isaacson- Question List for creating your own biography (taken
from greatlifestories.com)- The Story of Walt Disney – Bernice Seldon- The Life of Theadore Roosevelt – William Thayer- Diary of a Kidnapped Colombian Governor: A Journey
Toward Nonviolent Transformation by Guillermo Gaviria Correa
- Even Silence Has An End-Ingrid Betancourt- Gabriel García Márquez: A Life (Vintage) by Gerald
Martin
Videos and DVD’sSchindler’s ListCatch Me If You CanAmadeusRaging BullWalk The LineTemple GrandinA Beautiful MindGhandiPattonMalcolm XBonnie and Clyde
Biography Brainstorm
Further List of Possible TasksConnect the people with the ages
in which they lived and then discuss how they might have fit in with modern society.
Interview someone famous from your city.
Create a list of unique and interesting interview questions.