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Writing
Your Autobiography
Assignment:
As a “Getting to Know You” exercise, please write a 3-paragraph paper in
which you'll respond to the following statements: (each paragraph should have 5
complete sentences)
Paragraph
1 should contain: Early childhood information…
·
Your
name,
·
Your
date of birth,
·
Your
place of birth,
·
What
your family was like when you were born,
·
What
your early childhood was like,
·
Some
interesting things that happened when you were little.
Paragraph
2 should contain: Background information…
·
Places
you’ve lived and traveled,
·
Schools
you’ve attended
·
Interesting
things you did at school
·
Accomplishments
and awards,
·
Other
interesting events in your life.
Paragraph
3 should contain; What your life is like now…
·
What
you look like,
·
Your
family and friends,
·
Your
school,
·
Your
interests and hobbies,
·
Your
plans for the future,
·
What
you think you might learn in this class.
When you write a short autobiography, you’ll find you won't have space
for all the information requested. Just include what’s most important and most
interesting. In paragraph 1, for example, you could cover the first two or three
requests in one sentence - for example; “It was a cold wintry night on
November 24th, 1854 in my home town of Bonn, Germany where I was born Johannes
Finklestein, youngest son of Deitrich Finklestein.”
This would leave 4 sentences to cover the interesting stuff.
Please make your autobiography enjoyable for others (like your teacher)
to read. Include some stories about funny or unusual things that have happened
to you. Tell what makes you different from other people. What problems do you
have to deal with? What things do you do best?
Please
follow these guidelines:
·
2
spaces following a period,
·
1
space following a comma
·
TAB
once to indent a paragraph
·
Use
spell check and grammar (if you don’t know where these are, look under Tools)