Bio Cube Assignment
Language Arts
1. Choose a person you are interested in. This person could be living or dead, and could come
from fields such as history, politics, sports, music, or science. I would prefer you choose a
person you do not already know about.
2. Visit at least two reliable websites and read biographies about your person. I suggest
www.wikipedia.com and www.biography.com/search
3. Take notes on the Bio-Cube Planning Sheet, or type your notes. Use these guidelines for your
notes:
o Use bullet points
o Write down phrases, not complete sentences
o Do not copy more than three words in a row from the biography without putting
quotation marks around them
4. Go to the Bio-Cube Creator at www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/bio_cube/
You can also access the Bio-Cube Creator by typing “Bio Cube” into Google. It should be the
first hit.
5. Use the Bio-Cube Creator and your notes to write a biography of your person. You should
use complete sentences, but you will notice that there is a limit to how much you can write. Try
to write in detail, but to choose words carefully so you can fit in the most information possible.
6. Print your Bio-Cube (you may want to spell-check by copying your text into Word and
pasting it back into the Bio-Cube).
7. You will use your Bio-Cube to give a short speech about your person to the class.