BIOGRAPHY/AUTOBIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR

READING ASSIGNMENT

 

Instructions:  1.  Choose a biography, autobiography, or memoir to read.
                           Make your choice based on:

  1. A famous person you know or have heard of
  2. Ethnicity or national identity
  3. The field of endeavour (on our catalogue, search “Biography AND medicine” for example) 
  4. A period of history or a social issue (The Apartheid in South Africa, for instance) . . . or
  5. Random selection

2. With your student card, sign out your book at the Librarian’s circulation desk

    1. Take your book to the carrels and tables and quietly begin reading.
    2. Record information about your book using the following questions as your guide.

1.    Record the citation for your book by giving: Name of the Author(s). – surname first, the Title 
      of the book. (underlined) the Place of Publication: the Publisher, and Year of Publication.

 

 

 

2.    About whom is the book written?______________________________________

       Is the book an autobiography? A memoir? Or a biography?    Specify__________________
     
       What is the call number? _______________     

 

 

3.   From what field or experience is your person? _________________________

      Why did you choose this book?                                                                                                                                                                   
       

                                                                                                                                                               
                                                                                                                                                                              
                               

                                                                                                                                      

                                                                                                                                                               

 

 

 

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4.  As you read, summarize the key episodes described in your book.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

5.   What is your portfolio theme? _____________________________ 

       Record information about your person’s life that supports your theme.