Brave New Teaching/Teaching Biography & Memoir: A Workshop for Secondary ELA Teachers

  • $60

Teaching Biography & Memoir: A Workshop for Secondary ELA Teachers

  • Course
  • 13 Lessons

Tackle your lesson planning with a genre-based inquiry approach for your next biography or memoir unit. Whether you’re planning a whole-class novel unit or a literature circle / choice style unit, we have ideas, lessons, and solutions ready to deliver.

Looking for inquiry-driven unit support?

You've come to the right place.

Let's double check that we are the perfect fit for where you find yourself in your teaching life right about now.

  • You are in the stages of considering a new memoir unit to add to your curriculum

  • You are building a brand new curriculum and need ideas for units to scaffold over multiple grade levels

  • You taught a memoir once, but didn't love how the unit turned out

  • You're a brand new teacher that's been handed a memoir unit and you're panicking

In this workshop, you will learn a variety ways to approach a memoir or biography unit that will leave you feeling empowered, organized, and confident that your unit will be meaningful and memorable for your students.

THE WORKSHOP: TABLE OF CONTENTS

Here's a complete overview of the contents of our workshop.

All sections of the workshop are available immediately. All timestamps are provided here to give you an idea of how long each section will take. The workshop is designed to give you flexibility as you work through it and return to it as your courses change and evolve over time.


There are TWO ways to join the workshop:


Welcome to the Virtual Workshop: Teaching Memoir & Biography!

Let's get this party started!!!
Getting Started Resources
About Your Instructors

Module 1: Introducing Memoir & Biography

Introducing Memoir & Biography: Gateway Activities

Module 2: Essential Questions - Whole Class & Choice Units

Essential Questions: Whole Class & Choice Units

Module 3: Memoir & Biography Unit Walkthroughs

UNIT WALKTHROUGHS: START HERE
The Glass Castle
This I Believe
Just Mercy
Night

Module 4: Pairings & Supplements

Using Supplements in your Memoir & Biography Units

Module 5: Student Writing & Assessment

Student Writing & Assessment

Thank You & Closing

It's time to say goodbye :(

  • $60

Teaching Biography & Memoir: A Workshop for Secondary ELA Teachers

  • Course
  • 13 Lessons

Tackle your lesson planning with a genre-based inquiry approach for your next biography or memoir unit. Whether you’re planning a whole-class novel unit or a literature circle / choice style unit, we have ideas, lessons, and solutions ready to deliver.

We're Amanda & Maire

The co-hosts of the Brave New Teaching Podcast & co-creators of the Teaching Biography and Memoir Workshop.

We've been teaching for over 30 years combined, and with that experience, we know exactly what NOT to do. We've failed plenty of times, and from all of those mistakes, we've learned how to carefully adjust and align our curriculum design to best:

  • meet students where they are

  • engage our students

  • teach basic AND challenging skills

  • align instruction with assessment

  • de-center texts and center inquiry

JOIN US AS A HAPPY HOUR GOLD MEMBER!

MOST POPULAR OPTION


While we do offer the Teaching Memoir and Biography Workshop as a stand alone workshop, most of our teachers prefer to join us at a monthly rate. At just $27/month, you not only have access to Teaching Memoir and Biography, but to ALL of our workshops AND our monthly subscriber-only podcast.

Happy Hour teachers love having access to every single workshop whenever they need it. We know how much teaching changes, and you never know if you'll be switching courses or suddenly long-term subbing in a course you've never taught! Give yourself the peace of mind to have multiple genre-based workshops at your fingertips whenever you need them.

The Genre-Based Teaching Support You Need

...and that you won't find anywhere else!

Originally, we presented these workshops to teachers over the course of a week. Now, you can access them for as long as you need at your own pace! The workshop will open for you as soon as you register -- start today!

  • $60

Teaching Biography & Memoir: A Workshop for Secondary ELA Teachers

  • Course
  • 13 Lessons

Tackle your lesson planning with a genre-based inquiry approach for your next biography or memoir unit. Whether you’re planning a whole-class novel unit or a literature circle / choice style unit, we have ideas, lessons, and solutions ready to deliver.