Sparkle autobiography sample
Sparkle On!: An Unpacked Sparkle Children’s Story
About the author
Patrick A. Roland is an award-winning journalist, author and editor with twenty-one years of mainstream media, specialty publication, corporate and public relations experience. He currently lives in Phoenix, Arizona and he celebrates his status as a bi-polar, ex-drug addict, former alcoholic widow because he is now sober, happy and healthy. He hopes that by sharing his experiences and strength with others, they will find hope in the way that he did. When he isn't writing books such as his excellent autobiography Unpacked Sparkle, Patrick spends his time campaigning to raise awareness of drug addiction, alcoholism and mental illness. He is also a strong advocate for equal rights, civil liberties and LGBT rights. Patrick regularly takes part in conventions, workshops and presentations, where he speaks passionately about coping with grief, overcoming drug addiction and alcoholism, and dealing with mental illness.
This kid-friendly and *ready-to-use* autobiography template is the perfect way for your students to write about their lives. This template will allow students to publish their own autobiographies in an organized and easy to use way.
This packet includes:
*Cover Page (Color and black and white version included)
*Table of Contents
*Background Page
*My Family Page
*My Favorite Things Page
*My Hobbies Page
*Fun Facts Page
*A Timeline
*Extra Writing Paper
FUN IDEAS*
-Staple into a book
-Use each page separately to make several classroom books
-Use pages as bulletin boards
-Students can make posters using the pages
-Students can receive the booklet if they are "Star Student" and then read it to the class
-The possibilities are ENDLESS!
*Great to use anytime during the year*
Thanks! Jamie Paino
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This memoir, something of a departure for naturalist and Springwatch presenter Chris Packham, has many literary resonances. As an account of a young boy finding purpose and passion through his love for wildlife, it recalls A Kestrel for a Knave and My Family and Other Animals;the love and loss of a wild creature echoes Gavin Maxwell’s Ring of Bright Water, which gave Packham a love of otters. The journey through depression, and emergence from it, is reminiscent of Richard Mabey's Nature Cure and Helen Macdonald's H is for Hawk,while the experience of mental illness and acceptance of therapy echoes Matt Haig's Reasons to Stay Alive. It's a brave and important book, at a time when it's recognised that mental health issues, particularly for men, must not be hidden or 'toughed out'. Packham has of course published numerous books and articles on wildlife, but nothing as personally revealing as this.
The structure, a series of episodes, is an unusual one. In early chapters, Packham refers to himself as 'the boy' or 'Christopher', seen by a range of characters including an ice-cream van driver, a cinema usherette and, most touchingly, a hermit-like war veteran. Other sections are narrated in first-person - either as himself, or in short italicised sections, from the viewpoint of a therapist treating the adult Packham after he had twice come close to committing suicide. In these latter sections we learn that he came to regard himself as an outsider - clever, obsessive, but unable to relate to others. Although the term Aspergers isn't used, it is hinted at in his assessment of himself.
Chris Packham clearly loves words, so much that they seem for him to fill a "sparkle jar" as enticing as the delights of the natural world. He sprinkles them with a liberal hand, piling up adjectives in almost every sentence. At first I was exasperated by the over-writing, but gradually, as my eyes adjusted to the surface dazzle, it became part of the book's charm. The brea .