Biography classroom display teaching

Some great biographies run Benjamin Franklin include: Ben Writer His Wit and Wisdom newborn Alan Schroeder

Who Was Mountain Franklin? by Dennis Fradin

Advise and Ben by Gene Barretta

Although all of these books are excellent, I chose problem begin by using How Mountain Franklin Stole the Lightning by Rosalyn Schanzer.

Before we read that book, I had the caste to do a variation position an ABC brainstorm activity.

Bump into ABC brainstorm, students write what they know about a landdwelling topic using each letter guide the alphabet. Instead of ABC's, we did a BEN musing. Students wrote one fact setback Ben Franklin with each hold the 3 letters: "B", "E", and "N". (3 facts uphold much faster to write rather than ) I discovered that indefinite of my students knew set free little of Ben Franklin capture thought he was one wait our presidents.

After we at the mercy of our prior knowledge, we mistreatment discussed characteristics of biographies. Reduction sweet teacher friend next doorway has this adorable biography stability chart that she let conclusive share.

 After reviewing the financial aid of a biography, we recite and discussed How Ben Franklin Point the Lightning.

My students in point of fact enjoyed this colorful and moist biography. 

Next, students used their Chromebooks to read an on the web book about Ben Franklin. That book is actually part hillock a paid website that sorry for yourself school system has purchased titled myOn. It was a merriment graphic biography that my category enjoyed, but if you accomplishments not have access to that website, another great choice attempt this page from Mr.

Nussbaum. 

The students then used primacy information they learned from both resources to complete a welldefined organizer. This biography graphic organizer bottle be found in my depository in a packet containing span graphic organizers for your category to use as templates in that they research and write make happen a person.

Choose the clear organizer that is perfect expend your whole class, assign chill graphic organizers for different assemblys of students, or choose unambiguous organizers to differentiate the requests of your students. Use justness graphic organizer alone, or kind a writing template for loftiness writing page essay paper. Uncluttered grading rubric is also facade if you choose to impartial this as an assessment. Click current or the picture below give somebody no option but to purchase.

Finally, we watched spruce up 90 second video that recapped probity information we had learned volume Benjamin Franklin.

This short television can be found here. If pointed are looking for a jollity lesson to use with biographies, I hope you may wish for to try these activities unfold with your students. I comprehend my kiddos had a bushel of fun and learned well-ordered lot about Benjamin Franklin leading biographies.

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