Teaching creative writing
teaching english

Write your own autobiography

Writing to inform, describe and explain

 

Using these prompts to write about it. Give it a unique title.

 

The details of your birth? Where were you born? Was it a traumatic birth? Caesarean section? Parents thoughts and recollections on this.

Your first memories: your first smell, your first accident, your first day at school, sisters, brothers.

Your parents: their jobs, their personalities.

Traumatic incidents: being told off, teachers  you liked and teachers you didn’t,

Moving to secondary school

Any other moments of change: moving house

Your friends at Coopers’

The time when you got into the most trouble

Punishments

Triumphs

Disasters

Moments when you were frightened.

Great thrills.

Great friends and the things you have done with them.

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