Biographies

• Many school libraries include materials that tell the history of North Carolina.

• Some of these books are biographies

Social Studies | Culture

Some examples I found here

However,

to get kids more interested in them, we are thinking of adding some Graphic Novel versions!

​Who would like to tell me what a Graphic Novel is?

Popular Graphic Novels

"But .... those are stories, not biographies!"​

There are many biographies that are written as graphic novels, and today, YOU will create one also!!

Harriet Jacobs

Lunsford Lane

Anna Cooper

First, let's talk about who we are learning about today.

• Born a slave

• Taught to read and write by her owner's wife​

• Lived in coastal North Carolina

• Went into hiding when she had children, but they were sent to NY

• Escaped to the North​ to find her kids

• Wrote her life story​

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Harriet Jacobs

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• Born a slave in Raleigh

• Worked in a home

• Was able to buy his freedom for a lot of money, but still struggled to actually live as a free man

• Wrote his life story

• Opened a school later in life​

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Lunsford Lane

• Born a slave in Raleigh

• ​Worked in a home as a child

• After the Civil War, she earned a scholarship to college

• Had to struggle to attend because she was a woman, but finally did

• Wrote a book about her life

• Became the 4th Black woman in the COUNTRY to earn a doctorate degree!​

Anna Cooper

Your Task .....

• ​Read the biography assigned to your group

• Using the Jamboard, enter the information as a graphic novel

• Three total pages - Early Life, Middle Life, Achievements

First, let's look at an example

Jamboard