Biographies

We have learned how powerful the use of biographies can be in the gifted classroom. Let's share the biographies we have used previously in the classroom. Please not if they should be used with older students only due to content.

__Freedom Train: The Story of Harriet Tubman__ (used with 4th grade) __Frederick Douglass Fights for Freedom__ (used with 4th grade) __The Double Life of Pocahontas__ (used with 5th grade) __Pocahontas and the Strangers__ (used with 5th grade) __I have lived a Thousand Years Growing up in the Holocaust__ __Boy Tales of Childhood__ by Roald Dahl __A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier__ __Three Cups of Tea__ __I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings__