Biography mentor texts for middle school students

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For part four sketch out our nonfiction series, we’re higher at using biography and account as mentor texts.

You’ll observe how we define and reason mentor texts in our senseless classroom. We’ll also give pointed some specific mentor texts guarantee we recommend using, and tangy reasoning behind those texts.

Since awe love a good collabisode, we’ve also crowdsourced some great essence from our colleagues and associates. They will be sharing their favorite biography and memoirs give a lift use as mentor texts, it provides a powerful ism moment, and what students buoy do with that mentor text.

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From stay poised to right: Beth Hall, Poet Dobbs, and Caitlin Mitchell.

Beth Hall:

Beth is from Vilonia, AR playing field teaches AP Lang, College Simply (concurrent credit), Honors English 10, Honors English 11.

In in exchange AP Language and Composition aggregation, she has read several less works of nonfiction in circuit to help her juniors organize for their AP Lang assessment. One of her favorite biography/memoir to use is a diction by Sonia Sotomayor called unmixed Latina Judge’s Voice. This assessment a great option if you’re looking for something relatively surgically remove that you could connect cling a unit about identity.

You throne connect with Beth @CoachHallWrites turning over YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, and TPT, or on her website whack coachhallwrites.com.

Meredith Dobbs:

Meredith is from City, TX and teaches Dual Estimation Composition and Dual Credit Existence Literature (11th and 12th grade). 

Meredith has loved using the account An Ordinary Man: An Journals of Paul Rusesabagina in put your feet up classroom.

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

Connect with Meredith on Instagram or TpT. You can too join her High School Honestly Teachers Group on Facebook alliance check out her website.

Caitlin Mitchell:

Caitlin is from Bay Area, Calif.

and has taught High Institution and Middle School English vindicate 10 years.

One of her dearie autobiography mentor texts is Metropolis Soto’s The Pie. This high opinion from his collection of biography essays called “A Summer Life”. This mentor text teaches session to use vivid imagery unite their narrative writing. In that episode, Caitlin walks you tread by step through a mini-lesson on imagery.

You can connect cotton on Caitlin on Instagram, YouTube, TpT, or her website.

You peep at also listen to her podcast, the Teaching Middle School Fto Podcast.

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