Walter Dean Myers - Biography or Memoir?
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English
6th Grade
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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
CCSS.RI.7.10
CCSS.RI.8.10
CCSS.RI.9-10.10
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
CCSS.RI.7.10
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
CCSS.RI.9-10.10
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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