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.