This document provides instructions for a student autobiography project. It outlines three parts to the project, each with multiple assignment options. Part 1 focuses on the student's personal experiences and qualities through options like describing a meaningful experience or object. Part 2 explores the student's roots through family history assignments like interviewing a relative or researching family artifacts. Part 3, branches, asks the student to reflect on their future through letters to their past or future selves or describing their dreams and values. The instructions emphasize including additions like art, poetry, or photos.
This document provides instructions for a student autobiography project. It outlines three parts to the project, each with multiple assignment options. Part 1 focuses on the student's personal experiences and qualities through options like describing a meaningful experience or object. Part 2 explores the student's roots through family history assignments like interviewing a relative or researching family artifacts. Part 3, branches, asks the student to reflect on their future through letters to their past or future selves or describing their dreams and values. The instructions emphasize including additions like art, poetry, or photos.
This document provides instructions for a student autobiography project. It outlines three parts to the project, each with multiple assignment options. Part 1 focuses on the student's personal experiences and qualities through options like describing a meaningful experience or object. Part 2 explores the student's roots through family history assignments like interviewing a relative or researching family artifacts. Part 3, branches, asks the student to reflect on their future through letters to their past or future selves or describing their dreams and values. The instructions emphasize including additions like art, poetry, or photos.
This document provides instructions for a student autobiography project. It outlines three parts to the project, each with multiple assignment options. Part 1 focuses on the student's personal experiences and qualities through options like describing a meaningful experience or object. Part 2 explores the student's roots through family history assignments like interviewing a relative or researching family artifacts. Part 3, branches, asks the student to reflect on their future through letters to their past or future selves or describing their dreams and values. The instructions emphasize including additions like art, poetry, or photos.
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COLEGIO AMERICANO DEL SUR
TEACHER: Mr. E. MENDOZA
THIRD PERIOD NAME:_________________________GRADE: ___________DATE: _________________
CURRENT EVENTS Autobiography Project
INSTRUCTIONS: EVERYONES PROJECT MUST CONTAIN THE FOLLOWING: A COVER PAGE that visually conveys something about you could be a collage, a drawing, a collection of family photos etc. Please make sure all photos are digital or scans. A TABLE OF CONTENTS includes a title for each piece and its page number. ADDITIONS add to the given assignment some art work, poetry, stories, photographs, etc. PART 1: The Tree Complete three of the following you are required to do the ones with ** in front of the number. 1. The Day I Was Born Complete a mini-research project on your birth date. What 3 significant events happened that day? **2. My Personal Quest What is your lifes purpose (your quest?) What obstacles, dangers, and challenges do you anticipate as you journey towards your destination? What self-knowledge do you hope to develop as a result of your quest? 3. Hidden Self Poem Everyone projects a certain idea of who they are to others while hiding part of their true selves behind a mask. Only you know who you truly are. In the first two stanzas of your poem, talk about the you others see. In the last two stanzas of your poem, talk about the parts that you keep hidden behind your public mask. 4. Best and Worst Experience Retell an experience you would never want to repeat for $1,000,000 AND one you would pay a $1,000,000 just to relive.
5. Show and Tell Choose an object in your room which, in some way, reveals something about your core personality. Explain this item its relevance why and how it is a part of you. **6. And the Band Played On Choose a piece of music which could be your personal theme song. Copy down the lyrics (if it has lyrics) give the title, artist and then in two paragraphs explain why this piece of music is meaningful to you and what it says about your personality and beliefs. 7. Two Most Significant Firsts Explain anything which was a first, from mastering a skill to learning a lesson what are the two most significant moments and why? PART TWO: ROOTS Complete the following assignments: 1. Interview your oldest surviving relative. What changes has he or she seen in your family during his/her lifetime? What does he/she know about your cultural heritage? What is his/her advice for kids of this generation? 2. Family Trunk Most families have storage places where old mementos are gathered. Explore your storage area, an old trunk or grandparents memory boxes or basements, and see what stories unfold when you discover and ask about certain objects. Choose two objects of particular interest and discuss what it is and why its significant in two paragraphs. 3. Whats cookin? Choose a favorite family recipe and prepare it. Copy down the recipe and write a detailed description of your attempts to recreate this family masterpiece in the kitchen. I am most like my . . Choose a family member you have inherited the most qualities from. Explain who you are most like and why you think that is. PART THREE BRANCHES: Complete three of the following assignments 1. A letter to the past. We have found a way to send back mail to the people we were earlier in our lives. Write a letter, following proper block-style letter format, giving information or advice to yourself at an earlier age what do you wish you had known then that you know now? 2. Future Journal Entry : In a future fictional journal, describe and contemplate how you got to this future station in your life, what are your regrets, and what are your successes? 3. Values Write an essay describing one value (not a material possession, but a concept or idea such as ambition, or honesty) you would like to pass along to your own
children and explain how you would pass along that value. 4. I Have A Dream In a 30+ line poem (that does not rhyme!!!!) or a 2 page essay, describe the dream you have for your future.
