Alphabiography
An alphabiography is an autobiography, often set as an English studies project for high school or college students, consisting of a set of twenty-six short stories or chapters about the writer's life.{{cite book|last=Hoerr|first=Thomas R.|title=Celebrating Every Learner: Activities and Strategies for Creating a Multiple Intelligences Classroom|year=2010|publisher=John Wiley and Sons|isbn=978-0-470-56386-1|pages=269|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=r1YFG-J8tJAC&pg=PA269|author2=Sally Boggeman |author3=Christine Wallach |accessdate=7 December 2010}} Each story or chapter has a title starting with a different letter of the alphabet, 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.[http://www.simonsays.com/assets/isbn/068983957X/GU01_068983957X.pdf SimonSays - Totally Joe by James Howe]
ReadWriteThink.org, a website sponsored by the [http://www.ncte.org National Council of Teachers of English] and the [http://www.reading.org International Reading Association], includes a [http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/lesson-plans/alphabiography-project-totally-937.html lesson plan] for an alphabiography project.[http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/lesson-plans/alphabiography-project-totally-937.html Read Write Think - alphabiography project]