Fourth grade students did a super job writing biography poems after reading a biography about a person they had known very little about. This inquiry project was based on a project from Carol Kulthau's and Leslie Maniotes' book, Guided Inquiry Design. Their task was to read and discover their biography subject's character traits, motivations and accomplishments. After reading and taking notes using a graphic organizer, students used a biography poem template to write a poem about the person they had read about. If they had done their job well, the class was able to understand the important attributes of the person they described in their poem. Here are a few examples of their work:
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