Memoir vs autobiography lesson grade 5

Teaching Autobiographies and Memoirs

Elizabeth Flaschberger and Steve Markey

Enduring Understandings

1.    Students will read autobiographies/memoirs and will recognize importance of point of view.

2.    Students will be exposed to different media forms of autobiography/memoir.

3.    Students will create their own autobiography.

Objectives

I.D.4.

Evaluate the impact of an author’s decisions regarding word choice, point of view, style           and literary elements.

I.D.15. Read from and respond to a variety of fiction, poetic and nonfiction texts of increasing     complexity for personal enjoyment.

2.A.1.  Plan, organize, and compose narrative, expository, descriptive, persuasive critical, and     research writing to address