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Lesson plan: Pupils' own biographies
From the Nelson Mandela online resource
Resources:
You will need Extract 1
and Extract
2 from Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela.
Introduction and whole-class activity:
Ask the pupils whether or not they think people write autobiographies
on their own. Take one or two of the pupils' Facts about me worksheets
from the Facts about me lesson, and/or
additional research done at home, and model one or two paragraphs
of an autobiography. Encourage the pupils to suggest vocabulary
and phrases to maintain the interest of the reader. Pick out one
or two sentences from Nelson Mandela's autobiography that may inspire
the pupil's own writing.
1. What information can the pupils recall?
2. Why have they remembered those points?
Brainstorm opening lines for the pupil's autobiographies.
Group activity:
Using all the information the pupils have collected so far, ask
the pupils to begin writing their own autobiographies.
Plenary:
Ask the pupils to share opening lines. Which ones are the most powerful?
Which openings would you like to read to the end? Why?
From the Nelson Mandela online resource
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