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    This document provides instructions for a student to write a 1-2 paragraph story from their own life in the first person. It prompts the student to choose a specific event or time period from their life to write about. It then provides questions to help the student brainstorm possible experiences to write about, such as experiences from childhood, school, relationships, family life and holidays. The instructions guide the student through writing a draft, revising it by reading aloud, fixing errors, rewriting neatly, getting peer feedback, and finalizing the story by typing and submitting it.

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    Autobiography Assignment

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    This document provides instructions for a student to write a 1-2 paragraph story from their own life in the first person. It prompts the student to choose a specific event or time period from their life to write about. It then provides questions to help the student brainstorm possible experiences to write about, such as experiences from childhood, school, relationships, family life and holidays. The instructions guide the student through writing a draft, revising it by reading aloud, fixing errors, rewriting neatly, getting peer feedback, and finalizing the story by typing and submitting it.

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    This document provides instructions for a student to write a 1-2 paragraph story from their own life in the first person. It prompts the student to choose a specific event or time period from their life to write about. It then provides questions to help the student brainstorm possible experiences to write about, such as experiences from childhood, school, relationships, family life and holidays. The instructions guide the student through writing a draft, revising it by reading aloud, fixing errors, rewriting neatly, getting peer feedback, and finalizing the story by typing and submitting it.

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    Autobiography Assignment

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    This document provides instructions for a student to write a 1-2 paragraph story from their own life in the first person. It prompts the student to choose a specific event or time period from their life to write about. It then provides questions to help the student brainstorm possible experiences to write about, such as experiences from childhood, school, relationships, family life and holidays. The instructions guide the student through writing a draft, revising it by reading aloud, fixing errors, rewriting neatly, getting peer feedback, and finalizing the story by typing and submitting it.

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    Name_______________________________

    Date__________________________

    Assignment 2: Write a story of something that happened in your life.

    It should be 1st person, where you are telling the reader what happened to you
    It should have some dialogue, where you use quotation marks to show people talking to each
    other.
    You need to choose a time in your life that you remember very clearly an event like a
    birthday, graduation, date, vacation, funeral, confirmation, baby shower, quinceaera, etc. or it
    could be a time period like a year in school, a relationship you had, a family situation that
    lasted for weeks or months, a sports season, etc.
    Here are some questions to get you thinking about what parts of your life you can write about.
    o What were you like as a baby?
    o Where did you live when you were very young?
    o Did you ever move somewhere?
    o Do you have any brothers or sisters? When were they born? How did you act towards
    them when you were little? How do you act towards them now?
    o What types of activities did you like when you were a child? Did your parents do this
    with you? What did they think about the things you liked to do?
    o Did you read at an early age? When did you learn how to read? What books did you like
    as a little kid?
    o What was your first experience with school like? Kindergarten? Elementary school?
    o Who were some of your friends growing up? Were they important to you? If you had
    any conflict, describe what happened?
    o What was it like in your house growing up? What emotions did you feel when you were
    in your house and what made you feel them?
    o How does your family get along? What types of things does your family do together?
    o What were different holidays like in your home?
    o What were your birthdays like?
    o What were some positive and negative experiences you had in school?
    o What was middle school like?
    o What romantic relationships have you had? Were they positive? Negative?
    o Have you had any strong friendships in your life? What are they like?
    o Have there been any bad experiences in your life that youve always wanted to talk
    about, but have never had the opportunity? Writing about them can be a good way to
    think through something and figure out how you feel about it.

    Step 1: Who is your story about? ____________________


    Step 2: What is the setting or settings for your story (Where does it happen?)
    Step 3: How does your story begin? _____________________________________________________
    __________________________________________________________________________________
    __________________________________________________________________________________
    Step 4: What is the central conflict in your story? __________________________________________
    __________________________________________________________________________________
    __________________________________________________________________________________
    __________________________________________________________________________________
    Step 6: How does your story end? ______________________________________________________
    __________________________________________________________________________________
    __________________________________________________________________________________
    Step 7: Who are the characters in your story? _____________________________________________
    __________________________________________________________________________________
    __________________________________________________________________________________
    Step 8: Summarize what happens in your story ____________________________________________
    __________________________________________________________________________________
    __________________________________________________________________________________
    __________________________________________________________________________________
    __________________________________________________________________________________
    __________________________________________________________________________________
    Step 9: On looseleaf, try writing your story.
    When you think you are done with your story
    Step 10: Proofread your story by reading it OUT LOUD to yourself (quietly so others cant hear).
    Step 11: Fix any of the small mistakes you found while reading it over, for example:

    Leaving out commas


    Leaving out periods
    Not starting every sentence with a capital letter.
    Not making everyones name have a capital letter
    Having a question, but forgetting to end it with a question mark
    Having someone speaking, but forgetting to start or end the quote with quotation marks
    A spelling mistake
    Repeating the same word accidentally
    Leaving out a word in the middle of a sentence
    Using words like thing and stuff that arent specific enough

    Step 12: Re-write it more neatly than the first time, with all your mistakes fixed.
    Step 13: Find someone else who is done to peer edit your story you should also peer edit their story.

    Step 14: When you get your feedback from your editor, get a laptop and type up your story with any
    changes youd like to make.
    Step 15: Email your story to Feinberg and print a copy for your portfolio.

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