Sports biography lesson plans middle school

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• Black History Milestones - There are biographies and information about many events in Black history.
• Black History Month Biographies - Many people are listed here including sports and entertainment personalities. From Who2 biographies.
• Black Past - Biographies, history, digital records, links to museums and lots more.
• NASA's Real "Hidden Figures" - Biographies of the three women in the movie "Hidden Figures".
• The Black Inventor Online Museum - Biographical information about Black inventors, and a timeline of their inventions.
• Afrocentric Voices in Classical Music - Biographies of African Americans in classical music.
• African-American Women Writers of the 19th Century - Short biographies and a selection of their works.
• Notable Civil Rights Leaders - Biographies of Martin Luther King, Jr., Rosa Parks, and many more.
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  Biography Project: Research and Class Presentation

  1.Using your classroom or school library, have each lärjunge check out a biography of a famous person. The biography should be about one of the three people on the student's list from Session 1.
  
  2.Pass out the Web Rubric and go over expectations and criteria with students.
  
  

  • Web has categories that fit with the information written about the person and are easily understood by the reader.
    
    
  • Each category has supporting information that helps the reader understand the details of the person's life.
    
    
  • The writing is clear with no spelling or grammatical errors.
    
    
  • Each bubble gives brief, clear information.
    
    
  • Web shows the main achievements of the person's life based on the student's interpretation.
    

  3.Use the sample web for Martin Luther King, Jr. to model for students how each item of the rubric applies to the creation of the web.
  
  4.Ask students to skim (or preread) their biographies, focusing on the ques

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  Sports Celebrity Research Project for mittpunkt School, Print and Digital Biography

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  Do you want to be the best teacher? Would you like to teach your students how to write a biography project about a famous sports celebrity and connect them to the music legacy? Is one of your goals to focus more on project based learning with this sports personality research project middle school activity?

  Would you be interested in increasing your student’s creative, narrative, critical and biography writing skills with these sports celebrity project writing ideas?

  Think about what a difference it will man when you start using this sports famous person research project in your class! It includes:

  1. PROJECT STEPS – detailed instructions for the sports celebrity research project worksheets
  2. PROJECT COVER – personalize with sports player picture and name
  3. BACKGROUND INFORMATION – general data about the famous sports
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