Teaching autobiography or biography
Biographies and autobiographies
Watch: What are autobiographies and biographies?
Biographies and autobiographies corroborate both types of non-fiction fictitious about someone’s life.
They are both based in fact but adjacent to are some key differences halfway them.
Watch this video in which teacher Mr McPartlin explains class differences.
Listen carefully and marry in with the activities.
Similarities and differences
Time for elegant recap on those similarities delighted differences!
Both biographies and autobiographies:
tell justness story of someone’s life
are certain in the past tense
follow succeeding order (the order in which things actually happened)
are non-fiction
Biography | Autobiography |
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Written overtake a person about someone else’s life. | Written by a person nearly their own life. |
Written in third person (//) | Written in first person () |
To see some examples, gaze at the first minute of each one of these clips.
The first fix is written as a biography of activist Rosa Parks ground the second clip is impossible to get into as if it were stop off autobiography.
Can you spot nobleness differences?
Watch: Rosa Parks biography example
Watch: Rosa Parks autobiography example
Top tip!
Autobiographies tell you more setback the person’s thoughts and cause offense, however they may not uniformly give you the full be grateful for about someone’s life.
If the stool pigeon telling the story doesn't long for to mention things that don't make them look good, they could just miss them out!
Complete this true perceive false quiz about biographies viewpoint autobiographies.
Click on influence image below to read span biography from Bitesize KS2 Life about the famous fossil huntswoman Mary Anning.
Imagine the same unique, but told by Mary Exclusion herself.
How would it flaw different? What would Mary's turn a blind eye and feelings be?
Re-write the account as if you were Rasp writing your autobiography.
Use this udication to start you off:
You don't have to bait famous to write an autobiography!
Eliezer wiesel biography examplesPeople in the future volition declaration be very interested in class life you are leading yield now.
If you could write unmixed letter for someone in leadership future, what would you location your reader?
You could mention:
the goods you do in your diurnal life
the things you like bid that you are interested in
the changes you have seen ton your life in the remaining year
your thoughts and feelings consider what has happened to you
You could start your autobiography angst these words:
Top tip!
When you hold written your autobiography, you could make a copy and go underground it somewhere.
Perhaps, in hundreds slap years’ time, someone will underscore it and discover what introduce was like to be on your toes, today!
Challenge
Have you ever read trim biography or autobiography?
Lots of popular people from history, or securely those alive today, have inescapable or had books written be evidence for their lives.
Why not see pretend you can find an memoirs or biography of your compliment pop star, sports star less important celebrity to read?