This page is to share the suggested list of biographies discussed in class and to provide a space for us to add to this list collaboratively. *Please add your first and last name and the title and author of your text with your post. Please also add a picture if available and a hyperlink to the page where we could order the book online if we choose to.
Memoir Text Set
Crystal Weathers- Unit of Study- Biographies
We were beginning our unit of study before spring break and we will be working on our biographies for a few more weeks. We are still in the immersion stage of our study. But I have collected texts that we are using.
Biography Texts
Judy Blume by Jill C. Wheeler
Abraham Lincoln by Ingri & Edgar Parin d'Aulaire
Jackie Robinson by Tony DeMarco
I would crecommend this book becasude it gave the layout of how a biography can be written using nonfiction conventions. The book included table of contents, pictures with captions, charts and graphs, timelines and what my children really liked a note about the author.
A Picture Book of Rosa Parks by David A. Adler
Ella Fitzgerald by Andrea Davis
Michael Jackson by Katherine E. Krohn
Henry Aaron's Dream by Matt Tavares
Beyonce by Chuck Bednar
Donovan McNabb by Richard North
Barack Obama: a president for a new era by Marlene Targ. Brill
Condeleeza Rice by Kevin Cunningham
Story of Ruby Bridges by Robert Coles
Phillis Wheatley: slave and poet by Rolan S. Doak
Moses by Carole Boston Wetherford
Recommended by Crystal Weathers
This book depicted the life of Harriet Tubman through poetry and shifting from day and night showing how she traveled at night and worked by the day. The language was beautiful and vivid with lots of imagery. I would recommend this book especially for those lower children who need the visuals.
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