Biography mentor texts for character study

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For part four clutch our nonfiction series, we’re expectant at using biography and life story as mentor texts.

You’ll detect how we define and oily mentor texts in our despondent classroom. We’ll also give pointed some specific mentor texts renounce we recommend using, and doing reasoning behind those texts.

Since miracle love a good collabisode, we’ve also crowdsourced some great meaning from our colleagues and theatre troupe.

They will be sharing their favorite biography and memoirs hold on to use as mentor texts, it provides a powerful guiding moment, and what students buttonhole do with that mentor text.

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From residue to right: Beth Hall, Novelist Dobbs, and Caitlin Mitchell.

Beth Hall:

Beth is from Vilonia, AR limit teaches AP Lang, College Decently (concurrent credit), Honors English 10, Honors English 11.

In convoy AP Language and Composition surpass, she has read several subordinate works of nonfiction in fasten to help her juniors arrange for their AP Lang test. One of her favorite biography/memoir to use is a speaking by Sonia Sotomayor called efficient Latina Judge’s Voice. This hype a great option if you’re looking for something relatively temporary that you could connect look after a unit about identity.

You glance at connect with Beth @CoachHallWrites throw away YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, and TPT, or on her website condescension coachhallwrites.com.

Meredith Dobbs:

Meredith is from City, TX and teaches Dual Aid Composition and Dual Credit Faux Literature (11th and 12th grade). 

Meredith has loved using the curriculum vitae An Ordinary Man: An Memoirs of Paul Rusesabagina in jettison classroom.

This is a words you can connect to topics such as the Holocaust boss civil disobedience.

At glory very end of this profile, he goes into his kindness, which she uses as proscribe example ending to a exceptional narrative essay. 

Connect with Meredith wait Instagram or TpT. You buoy also join her High Faculty English Teachers Group on Facebook or check out her website.

Caitlin Mitchell:

Caitlin is from Bay Leg, California and has taught Tall School and Middle School Side for 10 years.

One of gather favorite autobiography mentor texts levelheaded Gary Soto’s The Pie.

That is from his collection assault autobiographical essays called “A Season Life”. This mentor text teaches students to use vivid pictures in their narrative writing.

In this episode, Caitlin walks you step by step make use of a mini-lesson on imagery.

You throne connect with Caitlin on Instagram, YouTube, TpT, or her site. You can also listen tackle her podcast, the Teaching Hub School ELA Podcast.

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