In today's lab session, you'll write about what happened the year you were born. And as we want you get some inspiration watch the following video.
An Autobiographical Research Project
What happened the year that you were born? What was going on in your town, city or village? Were there important events going on in your country? How about the rest of the world?
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Today you are going to do online research to find details on what was going on internationally, nationally, locally, in sports, music, arts, commercial, TV, and publishing during the year that you were born.
Click on the links below to browse the websites. Use your notebook to record your findings.
1. You will conduct interviews of friends and family members to get more details.
Interview your family and other people about your birth and first year of life. If available, look through photo albums, baby books, and so forth. Before your interview, brainstorm a list of questions to ask. You can include questions about your parents’ occupation, other members of the family and community, pets, significant family and community events (in addition to your birth), activities family and friends were involved in, extended family members, favorite music, book, or sports team, and so on.
2. After you have done online research on the events that took place the year/date when you were born, and that you have also interviewed friends and family, go over your individual project notes and select the information you would like to put together into a two-page printed autobiographical text.
An autobiography is an account of a person’s life written
by that person. It’s different to a biography, which is an account of a
person’s life written by someone else.
An autobiographical account isn’t a complete autobiography. It’s a small
bit of one, which represents a defining, important, or memorable part of your
life. For instance, you might write an account of your first experiences
playing a certain sport or musical instrument. You might write about an early
childhood friend and what you did together. Or you might recount a holiday
somewhere. To get your mind running, here are some of the things you might use
as the basis for an autobiographical account:
Optional :
For more information about the topic go to:http://www.englishtutes.com/Personal_writing/Autobiographical_accounts.shtml
Here is a sample extract from an autobiographical account:
I come from India, a land that is as urban as it is rural, a land that is as advanced as it is behind the times. India is a country where one part of the city gets non-stop running and drinking water, while another has to wait for water; water, that is imperative to the sustenance of all human beings. While I was lucky enough to belong to the part of the city where we were blessed with continuous water supply, it is a school assignment that took me to the other side.
Our assignment merely involved spending a day in a slum and writing about our experience. But what I had there was not a mere experience, it was the facing of a harsh reality that slum-dwellers experience every single day. As we entered the area, my eyes caught a long line of women waiting with containers at a common tap, for water which was supplied only between 1 pm and 2 pm every day...
Taken from: http://www.buzzle.com/articles/autobiography-examples-for-students.html
When you finish your work, print a copy and hand it in to your teacher at the beginning of next class.
This is this an evaluated task.
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