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Walter Dean Myers - Biography or Memoir?

Authored by Laura Dougherty

English

6th Grade

CCSS covered

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Walter Dean Myers - Biography or Memoir?
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1.

MULTIPLE SELECT QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which statements below are true about a BIOGRAPHY? (check all that apply)

The writer and the subject are different people (it is written in the third-person).

The subject of the story is a real person.

The writer is telling his or her own story (first-person narration).

The writer tells the whole story of a person's life.

The writer tells about one or more important memories from a specific part of his/her life.

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CCSS.RI.11-12.10

CCSS.RI.6.10

CCSS.RI.7.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RI.9-10.10

2.

MULTIPLE SELECT QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which statements below are true about a MEMOIR? (check all that apply)

The writer and the subject are different people (it is written in the third-person).

The subject of the story is a real person.

The writer is telling his or her own story (first-person narration).

The writer tells the whole story of a person's life.

The writer tells about one or more important memories from a specific part of his/her life.

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.10

CCSS.RI.6.10

CCSS.RI.7.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RI.9-10.10

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

"When I was a kid in the late forties, I thought the whole world was like Harlem"

Biography

Memoir

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CCSS.RI.11-12.10

CCSS.RI.6.10

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4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

"Myers' mother died when he was three, so foster parents raised him and his two sisters."

Biography

Memoir

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CCSS.RI.11-12.10

CCSS.RI.6.10

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CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RI.9-10.10

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

"We learned to play basketball in the church gym."

Biography

Memoir

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CCSS.RI.11-12.10

CCSS.RI.6.10

CCSS.RI.7.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

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6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

"In 1984, he graduated from Empire State College"

Biography

Memoir

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CCSS.RI.11-12.10

CCSS.RI.6.10

CCSS.RI.7.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RI.9-10.10

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

"All the way through school, Myers loved reading and loved writing his own stories."

Biography

Memoir

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CCSS.RI.11-12.10

CCSS.RI.6.10

CCSS.RI.7.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RI.9-10.10

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