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Russell Freedman's Lincoln: A Photobiography (Houghton Mifflin/Clarion, 1987) won the 1988 John Newbery Medal. It has remained as the most comprehensive and well-respected children's biography on the sixteenth President of the United States. This column provides connections to supporting and additional resources related to Abraham Lincoin. Materials with information about author Russell Freedman also are highlighted. Freedman prefers to be called a "factual author" rather than a nonfiction writer.
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Students may select particular photographs from the Lincoln biography and write stories about them. It is said that "a picture is worth a thousand words."
As a class or in small groups, students may create a timeline of Lincoln's life through a series of drawn illustrations. Use Freedman's biography of Lincoln and the ones mentioned here to highlight the events of Lincoln's life.
Students may write about someone they admire or consider a hero in some way
Share other Freedman biographies including those about Franklin Delano Roosevelt; Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery The Wright Brothers: How they Invented the Airplane, Martha Graham: A Dancer's Life; The Life and Death of Crazy Horse; or Babe Didrikson Zaharias: The Making of a Champion.
Connect to Teacher's Guides
Lincoln: A Photobiography by Russell Freedman: Teacher's Guide. Developmental Studies Center (Oakland, CA), 1996. ISBN: 1576211053
Using Lincoln: A Photobiography in the Classroom. Houghton Mifflin, 1990. ISBN:...