A Biography Study: Using Role-Play to Explore Authors' Lives - ReadWriteThink - 0 views
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Sara Wilkie on 01 Oct 12"Dramatizing life stories provides students with an engaging way to become more critical readers and researchers. In this lesson, students select American authors to research, create timelines and biopoems, and then collaborate on teams to design and perform a panel presentation in which they role-play as their authors. The final project requires each student to synthesize information about his or her author in an essay."