Franklin Roosevelt - 5th & 6th Grade Biography Writing Activity

This is a biography writing unit about the life of Franklin Roosevelt, who was the US President for the end of the Great Depression and most of World War II. The unit has been split into four separate lessons which will take students approximately 40-50 minutes each.

The first lesson is interactive and involves them cutting out facts, and then sorting these facts into paragraphs. In the second lesson the children need to use these facts to write four paragraphs about his Early Life, His Before Presidency, Early Presidency, and World War II, Death & Legacy. In the third lesson children need to choose the most important facts and include these in an introduction; after this they need to answer several questions before writing up their conclusion. In the final lesson your class will need to check their draft paragraphs for mistakes before writing up their work into a neat copy on the template provided.

NO PREP is needed - and the unit includes four lessons.

Good luck, I hope you get some great results!

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