Exploring Biographies: Uncovering Lives

Exploring Biographies: Uncovering Lives

Learning Objective

Understand the key features of biographies and different narrative styles.

What do you already know about biographies?

What is a Biography?

A biography is a written account of a person's life, typically focusing on their achievements, experiences, and impact.

Key Features of Biographies

Factual information, chronological order, and timelines are key features of biographies.

Narrative Styles

Biographies can be written in informative and narrative styles.

Interactive Activity: True or False

Present statements about a famous person and have students determine if they are true or false.

Analyzing Timelines

Examine a timeline of significant events in a person's life and discuss its importance in a biography.

Biography Writing Task

In pairs, students will choose a person to research and write a short biography.

Review and Reflection

Discuss the biographies created by the students and reflect on the key features and narrative styles observed.

Write down 3 things you learned in this lesson.

Have students enter three things they learned in this lesson. With this they can indicate their own learning efficiency of this lesson.

Write down 2 things you want to know more about.

Here, students enter two things they would like to know more about. This not only increases involvement, but also gives them more ownership.

Ask 1 question about something you haven't quite understood yet.

The students indicate here (in question form) with which part of the material they still have difficulty. For the teacher, this not only provides insight into the extent to which the students understand/master the material, but also a good starting point for the next lesson.