AlphaBiography Assignment Traditional autobiography writing with a twist

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AlphaBiography Assignment Traditional
autobiography writing with a twist!

• You will copy down the assignment details into
  your spiral

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Alphabiography Details

• Record an event, person, object, or feeling
  associated with each letter of the alphabet.
• After the entry for each letter in the
  Alphabiography, sum up your stories and anecdotes
  by recording the life lessons you learned from
  the events.
• This type of autobiography breaks out of
  chronological order, therefore choose what has
  been important in your lives.

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Alphabiography Presentation

• When you are finished writing about your life,
  you will have 26 separate pages.
• Each page needs to be creative!
• Every page should have something to catch the
  readers attention. Choose colors, fonts,
  illustrations, clip art, collages, etc. that fit
  with the anecdote on that page. Make your stories
  come to life!
• When you turn in your Alphabiography, it should
  resemble a book. Please present it in such a way.
  (I.e. portfolio, brad folder, creative binding,
  binder, etc.)

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Sample Alphabiography Entry N IS FOR NAME

• Your name is directly tied to who you are. It
  is YOUR name. It is the first thing that people
  usually askWhat is your name? I had a super
  cool name Lisa Amy Storm. OK, I didnt like to
  the Amy part so much, but Storm was really cool.
  That is what most people called me. So, when you
  get married, you lose a bit of that. Your name
  changes. It is exciting, but scary at the same
  time. Will you change as a person? Probably not.
  Will it change how people relate to you? Again,
  probably not. But, sometimes, it makes you feel
  differently about yourself. You may feel like you
  need to find a new way to identify yourself. Your
  place in alphabetical order changes. I loved the
  fact that I was married, but I wasnt sure how to
  my new last name suited me. I didnt feel a real
  connection to my married last name, Fink, until I
  was reading to my Kindergarten class a week or so
  after getting married. We were in the middle of
  our author study of Marc Brown, when one of the
  students suggest that I read Arthurs Teacher
  Trouble. I had never read the book before, so we
  went ahead and read it during carpet time. When
  we were about a third into the book, when Arthur
  was lamenting about having Mr. Ratburn as a
  teacher, I found itmy name in a book! Mrs. Fink,
  a teacher! Her name (my name) was mentioned in
  the book twice. Needless to say, this became my
  favorite childrens book. And, a story about an
  aardvark helped me to feel good about ME. LIFE
  LESSON A name is important and can make you feel
  good or bad about you. Find something about your
  name that you can relate to.

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Resources

• www.thinkfinity.com
• search for alphabiography
• http//www.readwritethink.org/materials/alphabet/
• alphabet organizer