Week One & Two: Imaginary Autobiography (May 10 - May 27)
Week Three & Four: Imaginary Autobiography Acceptance Speeches
- Writing your own (imaginary) Autobiography
- Reading and critiquing Autobiographical profiles
- Revising the rough draft of the Autobiography (handed in for Thursday, May 27)*
- Planning and preparing your Acceptance Speech or Alternative (Presentations on Monday and Tuesday, June 10-11)
Week Three & Four: Imaginary Autobiography Acceptance Speeches
- Acceptance Speech : Prepare an acceptance speech in which you explain what recognition you are receiving, what you did to receive it, what important event(s) brought you to this moment, and who helped to make your achievements possible. Your presentation must be between one and a half and three minutes long. To receive full marks for this portion of the assignment you must present a short oral presentation in front of the class, wherein you will tell us:
- Why you are being recognized (the name of the award, and/or the organization that is recognizing you)
- What important event(s) brought you to be recognized (the inciting incident and rising action of your narrative)
- Who inspired or supported you to become who you are (name 3 and explain what each did for you). Costumes and props are encouraged.
- Alternately, you could record a video acceptance speech, a television nterview (imagine you are invited on the 2040 equivalent of Oprah), a podcast interview, etc.
- Revising and rewriting the final draft of the Imaginary Autobiography (due Friday, June 11)
- Oral comprehension
- Reading comprehension
- Presenting Accesptance Speech or Alternative assignment (Presentations: June 21-23)
- Preparation for Grade 9 English