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9 12
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Scott Filkins
Champaign,
Illinois
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OVERVIEW
Students can be guided to make powerful connections between their life experiences and the world surrounding their
individual narratives. In this lesson, Elizabeth and Sarah Delanys autobiography, Having Our Say, serves as a model
for student texts. Students read and analyze passages from Having Our Say looking for specific examples of
multigenre writing within the text. Students then choose to narrate a life event that has connections to or is
informed by a larger event in their lives or in the world around them. They compose a multigenre paper that includes
the autobiographical narrative essay as well as an informational nonfiction piece that provides context for and
connections to the story from their life.
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FEATURED RESOURCES
Autobiographical Narrative Component Peer Review Guide: This handout includes a chart to guide students in a
thoughtful peer review of a classmate's autobiographical essay, but it could be adapted for use with any peer review.
Contextual Essay Planning Sheet: This handout provides a chart that guides students in thinking about the kinds of
information an audience might need to know to understand their autobiographical essay.
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