Free lesson plans for biography writers

Assignment Ideas

Use biography writing assignments in conjunction with current events, a literature unit, a research paper, or a history project.

Use the following ideas to get you started:

1. Short Story Unit: Write a magazine article describing a meeting with a character from any story you’ve read this semester. Be sure your article portrays the character consistently with the character in the story.

   Create a name for the magazine and a title for the article.

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   The audience should be the type of person who would read the magazine you created.

2. Novel Unit: Do the above assignment. Choose a character from the novel to write the article on.
3. History Class: Write a magazine article chronicling an encounter with any famous historical figure.

   Identify whether or not the person became famous before or after the meeting. Create a name for the magazine and a title for the article. The audience should be the type of person who would read the mag