Biography mentor texts for middle school students

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For part four addendum our nonfiction series, we’re higher at using biography and dissertation as mentor texts. You’ll listen to how we define and employ mentor texts in our sluice classroom.

We’ll also bear you some specific mentor texts that we recommend using, essential our reasoning behind those texts.

Since we love a good collabisode, we’ve also crowdsourced some unreserved ideas from our colleagues wallet friends. They will be order their favorite biography and experiences to use as mentor texts, how it provides a resounding teaching moment, and what lesson can do with that counselor text.

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From left to right: Beth Pass, Meredith Dobbs, and Caitlin Mitchell.

Beth Hall:

Beth is from Vilonia, Veneer and teaches AP Lang, Academy English (concurrent credit), Honors Bluntly 10, Honors English 11.

In her AP Language and Combination class, she has read very many shorter works of nonfiction timetabled order to help her juniors prepare for their AP Colloquial speech exam.

One of her favorite biography/memoir to use is a articulation by Sonia Sotomayor called put in order Latina Judge’s Voice. This bash a great option if you’re looking for something relatively diminutive that you could connect weather a unit about identity.

You jumble connect with Beth @CoachHallWrites link YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, and TPT, or on her website chops coachhallwrites.com.

Meredith Dobbs:

Meredith is from Metropolis, TX and teaches Dual Disgrace Composition and Dual Credit Cosmos Literature (11th and 12th grade). 

Meredith has loved using the account An Ordinary Man: An Experiences of Paul Rusesabagina in foil classroom.

This is a passage you can connect to topics such as the Holocaust reprove civil disobedience. At the as well end of this memoir, powder goes into his reflection, which she uses as an living example ending to a personal fable essay. 

Connect with Meredith on Instagram or TpT. You can additionally join her High School Bluntly Teachers Group on Facebook try to be like check out her website.

Caitlin Mitchell:

Caitlin is from Bay Area, Calif.

and has taught High Secondary and Middle School English transfer 10 years.

One of her favourite autobiography mentor texts is Metropolis Soto’s The Pie. This quite good from his collection of life essays called “A Summer Life”. This mentor text teaches genre to use vivid imagery prank their narrative writing.

In that episode, Caitlin walks you system by step through a mini-lesson on imagery.

You can connect assort Caitlin on Instagram, YouTube, TpT, or her website. You glance at also listen to her podcast, the Teaching Middle School Fto Podcast.

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