This document provides guidance on writing a biography and conducting an interview for a biographical sketch. It discusses exploring the meaningful events in a person's life to find understanding. The document recommends setting up an interview with the subject to inquire about their background, family, education, greatest achievements and overcoming obstacles, interests, talents, and life lessons learned from experiences. Sample biographical sketch interview questions are provided to gather details about the subject's life.

1. 1. If you ever ask Rizal your questions, will
you get a good answer from him?
2. What could be the response of Rizal to
some of your queries?
3. Did you ask him about his basic details
like his birthday, name of parents, or
number of siblings? If yes, why?
4. Aside from the basic information, why
should one ask more in-depth question
about a person?

2. Biographical Sketch
Biography- is the story of a real person’s
life (so not a fictional character) written by
someone other than that person.
It can be a page or several books long.
Biographies explore the events in a
person's life and find meaning within them.

3. There is no other way to explore how
to write a biography other than
writing one. If you have a spare time,
or if you are really interested about a
certain person who has an extraordinary
or noteworthy accomplishment, you can
set up an interview with the person. Ask
him/her about his/her:

4. Background
• Inquire about his/her family, place of
origin, and education.
Greatest Achievement so far
• Find out the difficulties he/she
encountered and how he/she triumphed
over the obstacles.
• Interests and Talents
• Lessons in Life
The lessons he/she has learned from his/her
meaningful experiences

5. Organize your paragraph into 7 to
10 sentences. Remember that you
are describing the most inspiring
person you know.

6. Biographical Sketch Interview Questions
1. Where were you born?
2. How many are in your family? What is the
neatest‖ thing about your family?
3. Where do your grandparents live? Who is
your favorite relative (other than your mom,
dad, and siblings)?
4. What was your favorite subject at school
last year? Have you ever gone to a
different school? Where?

7. 5. What accomplishments are you
the proudest of? Have you learned to
do something new recently? What?
6. What are your hobbies? What is
your favorite sport? Do you take
lessons like ballet, music, gymnastics,
etc. after school?
7. What makes you the happiest?
What was the best time you ever had?
8. What have been some of your
saddest moments?

8. 9. What are some special events that
have happened to you or to your family?
10. What places have you visited?
11. How would you describe your
personality?
12. How do think you classmates would
describe you?
13. Is there something you’d like me to
include in your biographical sketch that I
haven’t asked