Your Name: Chloe Corley

Grade Level: 4th Grade

School: Academy of the Americas
Date: 1//11/16
Overall lesson topic/title: Abraham Lincoln: 16th President Unit Plan:
Biographies & Autobiographies
Objectives for unit plan:
Reading: Students will read the story Abraham Lincoln: Sixteenth President to learn about Abraham
Lincolns life and compare biographies to autobiographies.
Writing: Students will be able to write an autobiography using the writing process.
Speaking: Students will be able to present autobiographies and provide feedback to one another.
Listening: Students will be able to listen to other students autobiographies in order to compare and
contrast stories.
MI GLCEs:
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.4.4.A

Read grade-level text with purpose and understanding.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.4.1.B

Provide reasons that are supported by facts and details.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.4.5

With guidance and support from peers and adults, develop and strengthen writing as needed by
planning, revising, and editing.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.4.4

Report on a topic or text, tell a story, or recount an experience in an organized manner, using
appropriate facts and relevant, descriptive details to support main ideas or themes; speak clearly at an
understandable pace.
Materials & supplies needed:
Abraham Lincoln: 16th President Story
Vocabulary Template
Vocabulary PowerPoint
4 Square Graphic Organizer
Double Bubble Map
Peer Review Sheet
Black Construction Paper

Activity 1: Pre-Reading
As a class, students will complete the Know and Want to Know
section of a KWL chart with questions related to the story.
Students will be told that they will have to answer one of the questions
from the reading, after being read to.
Activity 2: Vocabulary
Students will learn the grade level vocabulary before reading the story.
Through a PowerPoint and vocabulary template, students will learn
definitions, examples, draw pictures, and use motion to remember
words.
Activity 3: Read the Story
For the first reading of the story, the teacher will be the main reader
while students are chosen at random to read sections with vocabulary
words.
Comprehension questions will be used to promote student engagement
and check for understanding.
After hearing the story, students will brainstorm ideas of what makes
something an autobiography.
Activity 4: LEARN
Each group will be given a question from the KWL chart.
By reading together as a group, each group will create a poster answer
a question from the KWL chart with page references.
After each group answers the question, presentations will be given to
the class.
While groups present, the teacher will fill in the learn section of the
chart visible to the rest of the class they also complete the question
being answered.
Activity 5: Creating an Autobiography
Students will compare and contrast aspects of a biography and
autobiography on a whole group chart.
Using a double bubble map, students will compare their lives to
Abraham Lincoln to create topics to be written in their final
autobiographies.
Using a 4-Square organizer, students will form paragraphs for their
autobiographies.
Students will use the 4-square chart to create an autobiography rough
draft.
Using a peer-edit sheet, students will edit one anothers rough drafts,
given advice for improvement.

Assessment High:
Students
autobiographies are
assessed based on the
following criteria

Low Needs:

Medium Needs:

High Needs:

Using the peer edit sheet, students will write a final draft that will be
crafted to look like Abraham Lincoln using black construction paper.