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Exploring biographies
Watch: What is a biography?
A biography is a non-fiction text about someone's life.
Biographies are true pieces of text, based on fact, so biographers (the people who write biographies) have to do a lot of research. They use websites, letters, photographs, diaries and newspapers to help them.
Because biographies are written by someone else, they are written in the third person(//).
They are usually written in chronological order (the order in which events actually happened).
For example, watch this clip. It gives a biography of the scientist Marie Curie.
Watch: Biography of Stephen Hawking
Even though biographers do lots of research, they can only guess at what it was like to be that person, or the thoughts and feelings the person had.
If the person they want to write about, or anyone who knew them, is still alive, biographers sometimes carry out an interview to ask lots of questions about the person's life.
Here's another biography of a scientist, this time Professor Stephen Hawking.
Who are biographies about?
Often biographies are about people who are famous because of something they have done. Scientists, artists, sports stars or world leaders often have biograph
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Non-fiction
Unit 1 Core: Introduction to biographies: Jesse Owens and The Undefeated (suggested as 5 days)
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Lesson Planning
SPaG: Grammar and Punctuation
There is no spelling and grammar presentation for this unit.
You Will Need
Essential Texts
Undefeated by Kwame Alexander and Kadir Nelson
Young, Gifted and Black by Jamia Wilson
Optional Texts
Little Leaders – Bold Women in Black History by Vashti Harrison
Little Leaders – Exceptional Men in Black History by Vashti Harrison
Black Heroes: A Black History Book for Kids by Arlisha Norwood
Weblinks
Kwame Alexander reads from The Undefeated
Biography of Jesse Owens on the Olympics website
Unit 2 SPaG: Devices to build cohesion between and within paragraphs (suggested as 3 days)
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Lesson Planning
SPaG: Grammar and Punctuation
You Will Need
Essential Texts
Undefeated by Kwame Alexander and Kadir Nelson
Young, Gifted and Black by Jamia Wilson and Andrea Pippins
Weblinks
Brief biography of Althea Gibson, from the History Channel
Ella Fitzgerald and Duke Ellington perform ‘It Don’t Mean a Thing’
Brief video of the context for the 1963 March on Washington, from the History Channel