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It’s My Life: Multimodal Autobiography Project
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| Grades | 9 – 12 |
| Lesson Plan Type | Unit |
| Estimated Time | Nine 50-minute sessions |
| Lesson Author |
Monroe, Louisiana |
| Publisher |
LESSON PLANS
Grades 5 – 10 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Songs of Our Lives: Using Lyrics to Write Stories
Students learn about the life and music of John Lennon, write a short story from their lives integrating lyrics from some of their favorite songs, and create a class book of stories.
STUDENT INTERACTIVES
Grades K – 12 | Student Interactive | Writing & Publishing Prose
The Stapleless Book can be used for taking notes while reading, making picture books, collecting facts, or creating vocabulary booklets . . . the possibilities are endless!
STRATEGY GUIDES
Grades 6 – 12 | Strategy Guide
Teaching With Multiple Modalities
In this Strategy Guide, you’ll see how one lesson utilizes tiered texts and multiple modalities in order to meet the learning style needs of students.
Grades 5 – 12 | Strategy Guide
Bringing Lessons to Life with Animoto
Using Animoto, a free Web 2.0 tool, students can develop short digital videos that include music, photos, video clips, and text as well as share their creations electronically.
Grades 6 – 12 | Strategy Guide
Teaching with Zooming Slideshows through Prezi
Through Prezi, a web application, students create "zooming" presentations for various purposes, such as presenting research, defending an opinion, or sharing a digital story.
PROFESSIONAL LIBRARY
Grades 9 – 12 | Professional Library | Book
Adolescents and Digital Literacies: Learning Alongside Our Students
This book isn’t about technology. It’s about the teaching practices that technology enables. This book addresses the ways in which teachers and students work together to navigate continuous change and what it means to read, write, view, listen, and communicate in the twenty-first century.
ACTIVITIES & PROJECTS
Grades 9 – 12 | Activity & Project
In this project, teens create autobiographies, adding music selections to their life stories.
PODCAST EPISODES
Grades 6 – 12 | Podcast Episode
Life stories are books that trace defining moments and turning points in people’s lives. By exploring how individuals overcome obstacles and discover their passions – or fall prey to mistakes and inner demons – life stories illustrate how human beings navigate the complexities of living. Tune in to hear about a variety of life stories – some that celebrate lives of success, others that mourn lives tragically lost or wasted.

