Please click the "Full screen" button in the lower right corner of each document to launch a full-sized version.

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Unit 5: Auto- and Biography

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Click here or to the right to read about biography (including autobiographies and memoirs) for adolescents. Especially note the criteria for selecting biography (p. 254).

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Undefeated: Jim Thorpe and the Carlisle Indian School Football Team (2017) by Steve Sheinkin

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Click here or below for the reading schedule for this book.

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Click here or below for the literature circle roles for this book.

See also these additional resources for Undefeated:

• Steve Sheinkin's Twitter account
• Steve Sheinkin's Web site
• book review from Kirkus Reviews
• "A Teacher's Gide for Undefeated: Jim Thorpe and the Carlisle Indian School Football Team" (Macmillan)
• "Steve Sheinkin's Undefeated Is More Than a Book about Jim Thorpe" (Indian Country Today)
• "Young Jim Thorpe, Native American, and His Game-Changing Football Team" (New York Times)
• "Reviewing While White: Undefeated" (Reading While White)
  
• "American Football" -- a Radiolab episode with a focus on the Carlisle Indian School's influence on the sport
  
• Steve Sheinkin interview by History Detectives
• Steve Sheinkin interview by Book Page
• deleted scene from the book (School Library Journal)
• another deleted scene from the book (Kid Lit Frenzy)

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Check out this Twitter exchange between author Steve Sheinkin and me!