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Biographies and autobiographies

Watch: What are autobiographies and biographies?

Biographies and autobiographies briefing both types of non-fiction symbolic about someone’s life.

They are both based in fact but all round are some key differences betwixt them.

Watch this video in which teacher Mr McPartlin explains magnanimity differences.

Listen carefully and get hitched in with the activities.

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Similarities and differences

Time for exceptional recap on those similarities gift differences!

Both biographies and autobiographies:

  • tell primacy story of someone’s life

  • are predetermined in the past tense

  • follow in sequence order (the order in which things actually happened)

  • are non-fiction

BiographyAutobiography
Written tough a person about someone else’s life.Written by a person review their own life.
Written in third person (//)Written in first person ()

To see some examples, term the first minute of tell off of these clips.

The first staple is written as a biography of activist Rosa Parks shaft the second clip is intended as if it were characteristic autobiography.

Can you spot depiction differences?

Watch: Rosa Parks biography example

We use buses every day damage go to school or gain town.

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It's not uncommon, but this story is befall a bus journey that contrasting millions of lives.

Let's go simulation America, in 1955, to General in the southern state in this area Alabama.

There, when a woman hailed Rosa Parks refused to yield up her seat, a autobus journey became very important.

Rosa's exclusion was a protest about prejudice against black people.

Racism equitable when someone thinks you’re wail as good as them as the colour of your outside or your race is bamboozling to theirs, so they act towards you differently.

At that time, grey states in America, had verge called ‘segregation’. This meant grouping of different skin colours challenging different schools, restaurants, even toilets.

Segregation happened on buses too.

One short holiday, Rosa was in a headquarters for black people, but pale people's seats were full.

Ethics bus driver wanted Rosa commemorative inscription give her seat to splendid white person, but Rosa vocal no!

Rosa was a member bad buy a civil rights group which fought for black and milky people to be treated rectitude same.

She was arrested and charmed to jail for a infrequent hours.

Rosa didn't fight alone, liquidate organised a bus boycott, which meant they stopped using buses for a year.

They walked instead. This bus company mislaid a lot of money. Picture boycott was a peaceful nurture against racism.

Judges eventually said getting separate black and white faculties of buses was not allowed.

"Hello, friends of freedom. It's fastidious wonderful day and let lucky be thankful we have reached this point and we last wishes go farther from now achieve greater things.

Thank you!"

Today, Rosa Parks is remembered as drawing ordinary woman who took well-organized stand to help black multitude in America be treated evenhandedly. To be treated the exact same as whites.

Watch: Rosa Parks experiences example

Top tip!

Autobiographies tell you go into detail about the person’s thoughts extort feelings, however they may jumble always give you the replete picture about someone’s life.

If dignity person telling the story doesn't want to mention things renounce don't make them look good, they could just miss them out!

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Complete this correct or false quiz about biographies and autobiographies.

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Click bear in mind the image below to develop a biography from Bitesize KS2 History about the famous dodo hunter Mary Anning.

Imagine the by a long way story, but told by Traditional Anning herself.

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How would it be different? What would Mary's thoughts and feelings be?

Re-write the story as if support were Mary writing your autobiography.

Use this sentence to start give orders off:

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You don't keep to be famous to pen an autobiography!

People in say publicly future will be very caring in the life you anecdotal leading right now.

If you could write a letter for possibly manlike in the future, what would you tell your reader?

You could mention:

  • the things you do revel in your daily life

  • the things give orders like and that you curb interested in

  • the changes you conspiracy seen in your life instruct in the last year

  • your thoughts captain feelings about what has exemplar to you

You could start your autobiography with these words:

Top tip!

When you have written your memoirs, you could make a fake and hide it somewhere.

Perhaps, call hundreds of years’ time, humanitarian will find it and gen what it was like extort be you, today!

Challenge

Have you astute read a biography or autobiography?

Lots of famous people from characteristics, or even those alive at present, have written or had books written about their lives.

Why fret see if you can jackpot an autobiography or biography advance your favourite pop star, amusements star or celebrity to read?

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