1. What is an autobiography?
My Autobiography
What is an autobiography?

2. What is an Autobiography?
An autobiography is information about one's own life written by that one person. In it, it tells what that person's life is all about. When writing your own autobiography, use interesting facts to explain as much about yourself as you can.

3. Interview at Home
The first thing you do when writing an autobiography is start off with a lot of facts about your life; for example, when and where you were born, where you live (city and state), where you go to school and who you live with. We will start with an interview at home. You will interview and gather facts from home.

4. Your Interview at Home

5. The Fun You!
The next part of writing an autobiography is writing about the things you like to do.
What is your favorite food?
What is your favorite thing to do?
Do you like to be with your friends?

6. The Real You!

7. The Future You!
The third part of writing an autobiography is writing about what you will do in your future.
What do you want to do for work?
What will you do to make the world a better place?

8. The Future You!

9. What Kind of Citizen are you?
Being an American is such a great honor.
How do you show citizenship at school, at home, and with your friends?
Complete the prewriting with your teacher.

10. Citizenship

11. Meet Tomie DePaola
By the age of four, Tomie knew he wanted to be an author and writer. He wrote his own autobiography. Your teacher may want to read those to you. He wrote, 26 Fairmount Avenue, Here We All Are, On My Way. They are his autobiography.

12. Our Prewriting

13. Our Finished Autobiography
We will create a brochure about your life.
Then you will share this brochure with others in the class.