grade 7 biography and memoir

1. BIOGRAPHY AND MEMOIR

2. OBJECTIVES
• Analyze and interpret a well-written, biography, memoir,
and micro-memoir based on personal experience.
• Write a draft of a micro-memoir based on experience.
• Peer edit and revise each other’s draft based on the
desirable qualities of a well-written personal narrative.

3. • AUTOBIOGRAPHY – came from the Greek
word autos (self), bios (life), and graphien (to
write).
• It means writing the story of one’s own life.

4. • ANECDOTES – a short amusing or interesting
story about real incident or person.

5. • LITERARY BIOGRAPHY – writing the life of a
literary writer.

6. Autobiography
-history,
requiring
research, dates,
and facts
Memoir –
remembering
one’s own life,
own memories
and reflection
Written by
the author
with the
author as a
subject.