BOOK EXTENSION ACTIVITY - LESSON PLAN

Your Name:Moyi Tian Genre of the Book:Biography

Book Title: The Faith of Elijah Cummings Author: Carole Boston Weatherford

Publisher: 2021 Random House Studio Date:4/4/22

1. Pre-K/ CCSD K-2nd Grade/Nevada Core Standards:

3.K.1 With assistance, listen for and identify setting and
sequence of events.
3.K.7 With assistance, listen to, read and discuss text from
different cultures and time periods
3.PK.9 Listen to age-appropriate material that makes
connections to self and the world around them
5.PK.1 Experiment with writing tools and materials in
response to information.
7.PK.1a Listen for a variety of purposes with increasing
attention span
8.PK.4b Share ideas and information from personal and
share group experiences

2. Objectives:

SWBAT + Bloom’s verb

Students will be able to distinguish between biographies and autobiographies. They will also be
able to write their own biographies and autobiographies.

3. Materials/Equipment:
Pens and pencils and Forms

4. Teaching:
A. Plan for reading the book
B. Plan for extension activity:
1. Teacher will read the book in circle time.
2. Introduce the word Biography: ask the students what they think the word means.
Tell the students it is a person’s life written by someone else, a story about someone’s life.
3. Ask students what will usually be in a biography?
Students will say “Birthplaces, family of origin, favorite things, education, career, etc.
4. Have student sit with a partner and tell the partner about their life in detail as they possibly
can. Start with when/where they were born in a minute, then switch.
5. Ask the students the information they shared was fiction or non-fiction.
On the board: write the word Autobiography: tell them Autobiography is about one’s own life.
6. Ask the students to tell the partner all they could remember about their partner’s life story in
details.

5. Closure:

Question: Ask the students was it easier to write about your own life or your partner’s life.
Assess: Go around the classroom and see student’s filling out the form successfully or not.
Ticket out of the door: Ask the students to define biography and autobiography.
Next day: A lesson on memoir.