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Help on an oral report for school on an autobiography?

I’ve been assigned an oral report at school. The topic: an autobiography. It can be anything, as long as it’s about yourself. Can anyone share any tips on what I can do to improve an oral report? The length of the report must be between 5 and 6 minutes. I plan to talk about my early life for half of the presentation, and my interests for the other half.

Better suggestion: choose a favorite topic and talk about your involvement in that. Do you play a sport, play an instrument? Are you involved in the community? See what I mean? Choose something in which you have been involved and speak about your involvement.

Memories (3 CD Boxed Set) $32.89 Spanning his career from the ’50s, ’60s, and ’70s, this Memories three-disc collection contains 75 songs and over three hours of music from the King of Rock ‘n’ Roll. Track listing: Disc 1 – The 50’s That’s All Right Baby, Let’s Play House Heartbreak Hotel I Was The One Blue Suede Shoes I Want You, I Need You, I Love You Don’t Be Cruel Hound Dog Any Way You Want Me Love Me Tender Anyplace Is Parad…

How to Get Out of Your Own Way $13.76 Actor, singer, songwriter Tyrese Gibson crafts a memoir filled with every emotion and life experience one could possibly imagine. With personal experiences paired with reflective questions based on his extremely popular blog piece, “The Love Circle”, Tyrese hopes to inspire readers to pursue their dreams and not let life’s obstacles stand in the way. How to Get Out of Your Own Way is organized int…

Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life’s Greatest Lesson $2.48 This true story about the love between a spiritual mentor and his pupil has soared to the bestseller list for many reasons. For starters: it reminds us of the affection and gratitude that many of us still feel for the significant mentors of our past. It also plays out a fantasy many of us have entertained: what would it be like to look those people up again, tell them how much they meant to u…

Throw Like a Girl: How to Dream Big and Believe in Yourself $5.98 Dream Big and Believe in YourselfIn a society that sends incredibly mixed identity messages, sports help preteen and teenage girls make the right choices. Athletic girls not only grow up to be healthier; they learn teamwork, gain self-confidence, and mature into society s leaders. Throw Like a Girl inspires, motivates, and answers questions about issues specific to today s female athletes. NCAA so…

An Autobiography $6.99 In this autobiography, also titled The Story of My Experiments with Truth , Mohandas K. Gandhi recounts his life from childhood up until 1921, noting that "my life from this point onward has been so public that there is hardly anything about it that people do not know." HarperCollins chose this work as one of the "100 Most Important Spiritual books of the 20th Century." The pursuit of truth was a guiding principle for Gandhi…

The Autobiography $7.99 Johnnie Walker is an inspiration. One of the best-known and most beloved broadcasters in Britain, the charismatic BBC Radio 2 DJ has achieved legendary status with a hugely loyal following thanks to his tireless pioneering of new music, his warm and passionate personality and his soothing voice. Having thrown away the rule book as a teenager, Johnnie has always made decisions from the heart. As a result, he has had a brilliantly colourful life, with more ups and downs than a rollercoaster ride. He made his name in the 1960s when he and Radio Caroline, where his night-time show was essential listening for 86% of radio listeners, continued broadcasting in defiance of Government legislation. In 1976 he walked out of Radio 1 because of his outspoken views and his insistence on playing album tracks. He made front page news when he described the Bay City Rollers as ‘musical garbage’ and when he was caught snorting cocaine. In his memoir, he reveals all about his time with Radio Caroline, his drug addiction, his fight against cancer and his spiritual awakening. Honest, passionate and humorous, his autobiography will provide inspiring and entertaining listening to his million of fans.

Anthropology and Autobiography $39.95 Provides insights into the validity of fieldwork autobiography and the textual critique of anthropologists, presenting new scope for the genre of autobiography and contributing to debates about reflexivity and political responsibility.

Be Yourself $6.24 Be Yourself is an inspiration for all of us who are so busy trying to get our lives ’sorted’ that we have forgotten our true purpose. The demands of the material world can keep us rushing about, doing this and doing that, until we find ourselves on a hamster’s wheel of life; going round and round in circles and being unable to get off. Excessive activity can make our daily reality feel like a relentless routine. To lead a meaningful and happy life we need to develop our inner strengths and qualities and we do this by balancing our ‘doing’ and our ‘being’. Life is here to be lived and loved, so step off that wheel and look around you: you are so much more than you think you are. This book takes you on a journey to your best self. You can make things happen in the world without losing your deep inner connection. You can be a success and still let go of tension and relax and enjoy the trip. Learn how to be yourself: how to be active but still aware and conscious of the beauty of each present moment.

Tudor Autobiography $36 Histories of autobiography in England often assume the genre hardly existed before 1600. But Tudor Autobiography investigates eleven sixteenth-century English writers who used sermons, a saint’s biography, courtly and popular verse, a traveler’s report, a history book, a husbandry book, and a supposedly fictional adventure novel to share the secrets of the heart and tell their life stories.             In the past such texts have not been called autobiographies because they do not reveal much of the inwardness of their subject, a requisite of most modern autobiographies.  But, according to Meredith Anne Skura, writers reveal themselves not only by what they say but by how they say it. Borrowing methods from affective linguistics, narratology, and psychoanalysis, Skura shows that a writer’s thoughts and feelings can be traced in his or her language. Rejecting the search for “ the early modern self” in life writing, Tudor Autobiography instead asks what authors said about themselves, who wrote about themselves, how, and why. The result is a fascinating glimpse into a range of lived and imagined experience that challenges assumptions about life and autobiography in the early modern period.