A Biography Study: Using Role Play to Explore Authors' Lives

Dramatizing life stories provides students with an engaging way to become more critical readers and researchers. In this lesson, students select American authors to research, create timelines and biopoems, and then collaborate in teams to design and perform a panel presentation in which they role-play as their authors. The final project requires each student to synthesize information about his or her author in an essay.
Resource ID#: 30516 Type: Unit/Lesson Sequence
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Subject(s): English Language Arts
Grade Level(s): 9, 10
Intended Audience: Educators educators
Suggested Technology: Computers for Students
Instructional Time: 6 Hour(s)
Keywords: role- play, author study, research, critical reading, biopoem, timeline, essay
Instructional Component Type(s): Unit/Lesson Sequence,  Worksheet,  Assessment,  Formative Assessment
Instructional Design Framework(s): Direct Instruction, Writing to Learn, Cooperative Learning
Resource Collection: General Collection

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