An alphabiography is an

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, often set as an

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project for high school or college students, consisting of a set of twenty-six

short stories A short story is a piece of prose fiction. It can typically be read in a single sitting and focuses on a self-contained incident or series of linked incidents, with the intent of evoking a single effect or mood. The short story is one of the old ...

or chapters about the writer's life. Each story or chapter has a title starting with a different letter of the

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, for example: ''"Apple growing"'', ''"Baseball"'', ''"Cynthia"'' etc. At the end a summation is undertaken.

Examples

The book ''Totally Joe'' by James Howe is about Joe Bunch, who is given an assignment to write his alphabiography – although he thinks it will be boring, it turns out to be the gateway for him to learn much about his own identity as a gay young adult. ReadWriteThink.org, a website sponsored by th
National Council of Teachers of English
and th
International Reading Association
includes

for an alphabiography project.
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