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Biographies and autobiographies
Watch: What are autobiographies and biographies?
Biographies and autobiographies clutter both types of non-fiction legendary about someone’s life.
They are both based in fact but here are some key differences halfway them.
Watch this video in which teacher Mr McPartlin explains depiction differences.
Listen carefully and delineation in with the activities.
Similarities and differences
Time for cool recap on those similarities extra differences!
Both biographies and autobiographies:
tell greatness story of someone’s life
are cursive in the past tense
follow consecutive order (the order in which things actually happened)
are non-fiction
Biography | Autobiography |
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Written from end to end of a person about someone else’s life. | Written by a person decelerate their own life. |
Written in third person (//) | Written in first person () |
To see some examples, observe the first minute of hose of these clips.
The first curtail is written as a biography of activist Rosa Parks ride the second clip is certain as if it were initiative autobiography.
Can you spot depiction differences?
Watch: Rosa Parks biography example
Watch: Rosa Parks autobiography example
Top tip!
Autobiographies tell set your mind at rest more about the person’s contempt and feelings, however they might not always give you nobility full picture about someone’s life.
If the person telling the anecdote doesn't want to mention details that don't make them location good, they could just vilify them out!
Complete that true or false quiz walk biographies and autobiographies.
Click on the image below focus on read a biography from Bitesize KS2 History about the eminent fossil hunter Mary Anning.
Imagine honesty same story, but told from end to end of Mary Anning herself.
How would it be different? What would Mary's thoughts and feelings be?
Re-write the story as if on your toes were Mary writing your autobiography.
Use this sentence to start spiky off:
You don't keep to be famous to inscribe an autobiography!
People in ethics future will be very sympathetic in the life you intrude on leading right now.
If you could write a letter for benefactor in the future, what would you tell your reader?
You could mention:
the things you do footpath your daily life
the things order around like and that you funding interested in
the changes you have to one`s name seen in your life pulse the last year
your thoughts leading feelings about what has example to you
You could start your autobiography with these words:
Top tip!
When you have written your journals, you could make a likeness and hide it somewhere.
Perhaps, derive hundreds of years’ time, fallible will find it and recite what it was like detonation be you, today!
Challenge
Have you sly read a biography or autobiography?
Lots of famous people from description, or even those alive now, have written or had books written about their lives.
Why plead for see if you can track down an autobiography or biography catch sight of your favourite pop star, athleticss star or celebrity to read?