1) This document provides information and guidelines for writing biographies and autobiographies. It explains that biographies are written about real people in third person by someone with knowledge of their life, while autobiographies are written by the subject about themselves. 2) Biographies describe a person's environment and life events to show how they affected others. Autobiographies reveal a writer's feelings and goals through recounting key life incidents. 3) Collective biographies contain multiple biographies in one book, while unauthorized biographies are written about someone without their approval. The document also models creating a "Fakebook" profile to share facts about a subject.

2. Guess the name of
the person in 60
seconds!

4. •It is a true story about a
real person, living or dead.

5. CHARACTERISTICS:
• Shows that the writer
knows a lot about
this person.
• Written in third person
POV

6. Describes the person’s environment .
Life to Death

7. Provides stories or
details that show this person
in action.
CHARACTERISTICS:
Shows how the person affects
other people.

9. Why read
BIOGRAPHIES?
Because we are NOSEY

We can learn a lot from other
people’s stories

10. AUTOBIOGRAPHY
• The main character is the writer.
• If you write a biography about yourself, then
that would be an autobiography

11. Recounts the key incidents in the writer’s life.
AUTOBIOGRAPHY

12. Visual and Oral Forms
Autobiography
• Pictures
• Paintings
• Photo Albums
• Video tape
• Skits/ Plays

13. Reveals the writer’s
feelings, reactions, values, and
goals

14. • Reveals another person
through the eyes of a writer
who has had an
ongoing, face-to-
face, personal
relationship with the
person
First Hand Biography

15. COLLECTIVE Biography
Has many different biographies
that are all contained in one book

17. Unauthorized Biography
Biography about a person that was
not approved by the subject
that the book is about.

19. Activity:
FAKEBOOK PROFILE
You are going to make a
Fakebook Profile of a person’s
biography.

20. Name: Mark Elliot Zuckerberg
Works as: CEO, Facebook Pioneer

21. BASIC INFORMATION
Born: May 14, 1984
From: Born in New
York, Lives in California
Relationship Status:
Married to Priscilla Chan
About Me:
Time Magazine’s Person of
the Year (2010), Inventor of
Facebook and the youngest
billionaire in the world.
FRIENDS WITH:
Bill
Gates
Eduardo
Saverin
Chris
Hughes
Dustin
Moskovitz
Edward
Zuckerberg
Barack
Obama

22. LIKES:
Facebook Fencing
Classic
Literature
The Social
Network
(Movie)
Harvard
University
Microsoft
Just added a new
application on
Facebook, I’m a
genius, baby!
You don’t get to 500
million friends without
making a few enemies.

23. TIMELINE:
May 19, 2012
Thank you for coming to our
wedding. Priscilla and I just
got a new dog!
TIMELINE:
May 2, 2012
Facebook is for sale everyone!
Offers starts at $16 billion.
TIMELINE:
June 2004
Guys, check out our new
social networking site called
The Facebook.
TIMELINE:
June 2002
You are going to like this, look
for Facemash and
Coursematch on your site
now!

24. What have you learned about
the person?

25. REMEMBER:
A biography is a true
story about a real person.
It presents facts.
It describes the person.

26. HOMEWORK:
 Choose one
famous person
(living or dead).
 Look for his/ her
biography.
 Print it out and bring
it next meeting.