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Reading: Ages 7-14

Biographies and Autobiographies

 

            Today's Snack: Eat something that relates to the biography or autobiography that you are reading. For example, if you're reading about the life of George Washington Carver, of COURSE you are going to have to have a peanut-butter sandwich and a Reese's peanut-butter bar. If it's the autobiography of someone who was really poor, have what they had for dinner as your after-school snack, and think what your life would be like if those were the only calories you got all day. If you feel like it, drink a glass of milk with your snack, and write a short story, "The Autobiography of a Cow." It should be a . . . MOOOOOVING story.

 

 

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Supplies:

Ask a librarian for a list of biographies and autobiographies

of people who lived through interesting challenges

or worked in the career that interests you,

and work your way down the list this school year

 

 

One of the best ways to learn about history is to read quality biographies and autobiographies in your recreational reading time. There's a lot of gold to be mined in this genre.

 

            The stories of people's lives are not only educational, enriching and entertaining, but they teach you what NOT to do in certain situations.

 

Indirectly, by reading these life stories, you can learn from the mistakes made by others. You also can witness how those people overcame their own mistakes, and societal obstacles, to achieve success.

 

            Here are some good biographies and autobiographies that may appeal to the child in fifth through eighth grades or thereabouts:

 

            An American Childhood, Annie Dillard

 

            A Girl from Yam Hill, Beverly Cleary

 

            Black Ice, Lorene Carey

 

            Circle of Quiet, Madeleine L'Engle

 

            The Summer of the Great-grandmother, ""

 

            Two-Part Invention, ""

 

            Diary of a Young Girl, Anne Frank

 

            Gifted Hands, Ben Carson, M.D.

 

            Lives of the Writers (20 of note)

 

            One Writer's Beginnings, Eudora Welty

 

            "Surely You're Joking, Mr Feynman!" Richard Feynman

 

            Under the Eye of the Clock, Christopher Nolan

 

            By Susan Darst Williams www.AfterSchoolTreats.com Reading © 2010

 

 

           

 

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