Alpha biography ideas

An Alpha-biography is a project where you create an entry about different parts of your life, based on topics that start with each letter of the alphabet.

Ideas- My body is so active, when I'm supposed to be quiet, all that action rushes up into my mind!

In this lesson plan, the traditional autobiography writing project is given a twist as students write alphabiographies—recording an event, person, object.

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Alpha Biography

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2. Alpha Biography ProjectAlpha Biography Project AA BIOGRAPHYBIOGRAPHY is a nonfiction (true) story writtenis a nonfiction (true) story written about a person.about a person. AnAn AUTOBIOGRAPHYAUTOBIOGRAPHY is a nonfiction (true) storyis a nonfiction (true) story written about one’s self.written about one’s self. AnAn ALPHA BIOGRAPHYALPHA BIOGRAPHY is a nonfiction (true) storyis a nonfiction (true) story written about yourself where you come up with awritten about yourself where you come up with a topic for each letter of the alphabet.topic for each letter of the alphabet.

3. For this project,For this project, you will writeyou will write about events that haveabout events that have already happened (already happened (pastpast),), what fryst vatten happeningwhat is happening right now (right now (presentpresent),), and your plansand your plans or dreams (or dreams (futurefuture).).

4. You must come up with a topic

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Alpha biography

1. Katherine LaPierre

2. Atlantic Canada My favorite place in the world is definitely Atlantic Canada, specifically New Brunswick. Almost everyone on my mom’s side of the family lives on the coast of New Brunswick in a small tourist town, and we try to visit them every summer. I’m not sure why I love New Brunswick so much, maybe because there’s a lot of coastline and mostly everyone speaks French with a nice accent, and that’s it’s a beautiful province. I’d love to move there someday, maybe in a house right on the coastline. There’s so much to see in that region of the country, and I want to visit it all someday.

3. Birds I’m not much of an animal lover, but I really like birds. My family currently has three pet birds- a parrot and two cockatiels, and their names are Sunshine, Stormy, and Jesse. Honestly, birds scare me a bit, but I love them anyways. There’s so many different types of birds, and they’re all very pretty with their multiple colors and songs

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Alphabiography

An alphabiography is an autobiography, often set as an English studies project for high school or college students, consisting of a set of twenty-six short stories or chapters about the writer's life.^[1] Each story or chapter has a title starting with a different letter of the alphabet, for example: "Apple growing", "Baseball", "Cynthia" etc. At the end a summation is undertaken.

Examples

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The book Totally Joe bygd James Howe is about Joe Bunch, who is given an assignment to write his alphabiography – although he thinks it will be boring, it turns out to be the gateway for him to learn much about his own identity as a gay young adult.^[2]

ReadWriteThink.org, a website sponsored by the National Council of Teachers of English and the International Reading Association, includes a lesson plan for an alphabiography project.^[3]

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