Longfellow biography summary rubric
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Skip the typical Henry Wadsworth Longfellow lecture as you launch a study of Paul Revere’s Ride, The Song of Hiawatha, or introduce your students to the Fireside Poets and, instead, empower students to find their own interesting facts about this author’s life with this “Author Bio” print/post-and-teach activity.
This single-page worksheet (includes printable PDF and Google Drive versions) is a powerful research organizer that’ll get students digging deep into Longfellow’s background.
Please note: This download does NOT include a specific article or links to defined articles. It is an organizer tool for students to use as they conduct their own research. In my experience, students take more ownership of the material when they are the ones to research and discover the elements that make a literary figure’s life fascinating. They’ve seen enough of our introductory slideshows; this time, let your kids do the work and discuss/determine what they think is meaningful about this author’s life.
Here are a few suggested uses for this flexible research tool:
1. Book your school’s computer lab or have students access Longfellow’s biography information on their own devices. Assign students to either work solo or in teams of two. Once the grids are complete, have students share and comp
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Biography
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Biography
Family and boyhood
American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) was born on the 27th of February 1807, at Portland, Maine. His ancestor, William Longfellow, had immigrated to Newbury, Massachusetts, in 1676, from Yorkshire, England. His father was Stephen Longfellow, a lawyer and United States congressman, and his mother, Zilpha Wadsworth, a descendant of John Alden and of “Priscilla, the Puritan maiden.”
Longfellow’s external life presents little that is of stirring interest. It is the life of a modest, deep-hearted gentleman, whose highest ambition was to be a perfect man, and, through sympathy and love, to help others to be the same.
His boyhood was spent mostly in his native town, which he never ceased to love, and whose beautiful surroundings and quiet, pure life he has described in his poem “My Lost Youth.” Here he grew up in the midst of majestic peace, which was but once broken, and that by an event which made a deep impression on him — the War of 1812. He never forgot
“the sea-fight far away,
How it thundered o’er the tide,
And the dead captains as they lay
In their graves o’erlooking the tranquil bay,
Where they in battle died.”
The “tranquil bay”
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Louisiana Anthology
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