For this assignment, you will draft a brief autobiography called ABOUT ME. It will become your website’s introduction to the world – your About Me page. This will require family assistance. Get help from your parents.

Before you get your own Autobiography going, check out these pages:

You will take this assignment through the entire creative process. You will begin on paper, go through a series of peer proofing/editing rounds, and redrafting on paper. When you have most of the piece written on paper, you will transfer everything to the your website as a Page.

The  minimum length is 300 words. A good maximum is 500 words, but you could go longer.

Your autobiographical About Me page will be organized into separate sections/paragraphs as follows:

  1. Introduction
    1. Hook the reader (Get them on the Hook)
    2. Lead the reader to your Main Idea
    3. Transition the reader to real topic
    4. Deliver the Main Idea – About Me
  2. Body
    1. Early Years – Birth to 5th Grade
      1. In School Activities
        1. Academic
        2. Social
      2. Out of School Activities
      3. Important Life Events (such as births, deaths, achievements)
    2. Middle Years – 6th Grade to TODAY
      1. In School Activities
        1. Academic
        2. Social
      2. Out of School Activities
      3. Important Life Events (such as births, deaths, achievements)
  3. Conclusion
    1. State the Main Idea differently than the way than you did in the Introduction.
    2. Transition the reader to Ten Years in the future
    3. Where I see myself in ten years . . .
    4. Leave the reader where you picked them up (Let them off the Hook)

Before you get your own Autobiography going, check out these pages:

Now, go, tell your story up to this very moment.

 

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