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Word Wall: Autobiography

Word Wall: Autobiography. Greek & Latin Roots: Auto = self Bio = life Graph = write Therefore, autobiography =. Autobiographies. An autobiography is a writing about one’s own life. Bonus: What is the paradox or irony in the title?

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Word Wall: Autobiography

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  1. Word Wall: Autobiography • Greek & Latin Roots: • Auto = self • Bio = life • Graph = write • Therefore, autobiography =

  2. Autobiographies • An autobiography is a writing about one’s own life. • Bonus: What is the paradox or irony in the title? • What other movies or songs do you know that are autobiographical?

  3. Some Suggestions • Eminem’s “The Way I Am” or his movie Eight Mile • Kid Rock’s “Only God Knows Why” • The Pursuit of Happyness

  4. Memoir • An autobiography is also called a “memoir.” • What word root do you recognize in that word?

  5. Questions for Preface • Predict what you think the title indicates. • What is ironic in the preface about his friend’s response, “Cool”? • What country is he from? • What kinds of memories does he have about his country? Support with evidence from the text.

  6. More Questions on My Read-Aloud • Why are the children of refugees jumpy at loud sounds? • Why does the narrator think the refugees are exaggerating the stories? • What is a refugee? • What are “crapes”?

  7. Independent Questions • What happens to his family while he is in MattruJong? • Why is he in MattruJong, instead of home? • Who is ruining his relationship with his father? Why? • Why don’t the narrator and his friends go all the way home? • Why are people still holding onto corpses?

  8. Rest of Ch. 1 & All of Ch. 2 Ques. • The narrator says he can “no longer tell the difference between dream and reality” (15). Is he crazy? • Why does he suddenly want to think about a time before the war with his grandmother? • What does the father mean when he tells Ishmael that Ishmael was a “negative nineteen years old”? (14) • What is ironic about calling this war a “liberation of the people”? (14) • What is the event on pp. 18-19 with the corpse? • When on the timeline does ch. 2 occur? (LOOK FOR CLUES.) • How is he living in “three worlds”? (20)

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