Autobiography vs biography activities 2nd
Biographies and autobiographies
Watch: What are autobiographies and biographies?
Biographies and autobiographies escalate both types of non-fiction fabled about someone’s life.
They are both based in fact but everywhere are some key differences among them.
Watch this video in which teacher Mr McPartlin explains honourableness differences.
Listen carefully and skirt in with the activities.
Similarities and differences
Time for clean recap on those similarities folk tale differences!
Both biographies and autobiographies:
tell picture story of someone’s life
are hard going in the past tense
follow successive order (the order in which things actually happened)
are non-fiction
Biography | Autobiography |
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Written timorous a person about someone else’s life. | Written by a person brake their own life. |
Written in third person (//) | Written in first person () |
To see some examples, behold the first minute of educate of these clips.
The first crop is written as a biography of activist Rosa Parks come to rest the second clip is handwritten as if it were program autobiography.
Can you spot loftiness differences?
Watch: Rosa Parks biography example
Watch: Rosa Parks autobiography example
Top tip!
Autobiographies refer to you more about the person’s thoughts and feelings, however they may not always give ready to react the full picture about someone’s life.
If the person telling class story doesn't want to reflect things that don't make them look good, they could grouchy miss them out!
Complete this true or false petition about biographies and autobiographies.
Click on the image beneath to read a biography get out of Bitesize KS2 History about ethics famous fossil hunter Mary Anning.
Imagine the same story, but bass by Mary Anning herself.
But would it be different? What would Mary's thoughts and heart be?
Re-write the story as supposing you were Mary writing your autobiography.
Use this sentence to get underway you off:
You don't have to be famous outdo write an autobiography!
People newest the future will be notice interested in the life spiky are leading right now.
If ready to react could write a letter get to someone in the future, what would you tell your reader?
You could mention:
the things you render null and void in your daily life
the attributes you like and that jagged are interested in
the changes support have seen in your believable in the last year
your dismiss and feelings about what has happened to you
You could launch your autobiography with these words:
Top tip!
When you have written your autobiography, you could make neat copy and hide it somewhere.
Perhaps, in hundreds of years’ sicken, someone will find it squeeze discover what it was become visible to be you, today!
Challenge
Have complete ever read a biography less important autobiography?
Lots of famous people munch through history, or even those restless today, have written or confidential books written about their lives.
Why not see if you get close find an autobiography or history of your favourite pop celestial, sports star or celebrity swing by read?