During the Spring 2015 semester of Teaching Elementary School Social Studies, we used Social Studies, Literacy, and Social Justice in the Common Core Classroom as our course text. One notable application strategy shared was the creation of first person narratives during Writer's Workshop. First person narratives can include diaries, journals, travel journals, memories, oral histories, and autobiographies. In studying several unsung women activist, my students created autobiographies or biographies on a specific woman as eBooks. Here are a few examples of their work.
