Personal Autobiography

Students will compose a draft of their personal life, by using a variety of resources such as personal knowledge, parent information, journals, etc. They need to understand that the finished product will be in the form of a PowerPoint presentation. Students will then follow the Writing Process to complete their writing. They will have a rough draft, student and teacher conferences, a student edit, revise, and then teacher edit in preparation for creating their presentation. Students will take digital pictures and/or scan in pictures that they want to use to enhance their autobiography. Students will have a Rubric to follow that will include the number/type of slides they will need and the photos required to earn the grade they desire. Students will check out digital cameras to take home in the evening to obtain the pictures they need. Those pictures will be uploaded to their computers and then incorporated in their PowerPoint slides. Students and teacher will review the PowerPoint presentation making any final corrections needed before presentations are shown to the class.

This will be the Rubric:

Personal Biography—

Objective: Write a personal biography of yourself and your family that will be presented in a PowerPoint presentation.

Prior knowledge: Writing using the Writing Process
Creation of a PowerPoint presentation
Understanding of a grading rubric

Procedures:

Students will follow the Writing Process to write a personal biography that includes the following—
Personal facts, i.e. birthdate and place, physical characteristics, places lived
Information about parents
Information about siblings
Information about pets
Information about some of their favorites- things to do or favorite things

After completing the writing by going through the complete Writing Process, students will then convert their piece into 7 sections to be written as a PowerPoint project. Students will have the following slides:
Introduction
Personal facts
Mom slide
Dad slide
Siblings slide
Pets slide
Favorites—things to do or favorite things
Each slide will have at least 1 digital or scanned picture to go with that slide

Grading Rubric:
1 2 3 4 5

Did Incomplete Writing Writing Piece Complete Writing
nothing and Process & Process & Process

4 or less slides 5-6 slides 7 slides-
every slide
4 or less pictures 5-6 pictures 7 + pictures

Many editing Few editing All correctly
mistakes mistakes edited