Autobiography

Autobiographies could be difficult for an ELL students to comprehend right away, but if you give an example to your students first, perhaps about yourself, they will become familiar of the objective of an autobiography. Having your students create an autobiography at the beginning of the year will better allow you to get to know them on a more personal level. This could also be an assignment after learning about a famous person and reading their personal autobiography.

1. [|Autobiography] This website gives the teacher sample lesson plans and rubrics for the assignments. Very useful.

2. [|Poem Autobiography] This lesson plan for a poem autobiography includes a sample and fill in the blank poem so that students could just add their own thoughts and ideas. Great tool to make your students think creatively.