NEW+Biographies


 * //__ BIOGRAPHY STUDY __//**

** STUDENT OBJECTIVES ** Students will · select a person of interest for their study. · select key events from the person’s life. · use a variety of information resources to synthesise, create and communicate what they've learned on a timeline. · research further to resolve conflicting information.

WHAT IS A BIOGRAPHY? **Easier** - A biography is a written story of a person's life. It is also a type of book.

**Harder** - Biographies are written stories of a person's life that were written by someone else, while an autobiography is a person's story written by themselves. Biographies make past history more real and easier to understand by telling about real people and actual events. People reading the biography can satisfy their curiosity about well-known individuals and can experience historical events as though they were actually present. A good biography presents the facts about the person's life including what the subject did and how they influenced their world. It should describe the person's personality and provide an explanation for why he or she acted in certain ways. Most biographies are interpretive; they not only present the facts but also tell what those facts mean. Biographers make their writings accurate by learning as much as possible about their subjects. They study materials such as diaries, personal letters, and autobiographies. A good biography should be objective and balanced, but those goals are not always achieved. Some biographers present a biased view by selectively presenting only the facts that portray the subject in either a favorable or an unflattering way.

Lesson 1: 30th November Group activity: Students will read a short biography of Mahatma Gandhi and use the site below to create a timeline of his life.

This site will show you the article: http://www.biography.com/articles/Mahatma-Gandhi-9305898?print

Individual activity: Choose one famous Indian person from your India project and agree on 8 key events in the life of that person.

This link will take you to a tool which will help you create a timeline of the famous person's life: http://www.teach-nology.com/web_tools/materials/bigtimeline/

Create your own timeline about that person. Save it to your desktop.


 * Choose a person to research and create a biography about them. **