Post on 25-Mar-2023
Introduction
Work through the booklet, answering the questions on
the Word document provided. Remember you can use
the recommended search sites to help you find more
information for your writing and the planning
templates will help you compose and organise your
work. When you are ready to write up your first draft,
you can type up your biography and upload it to
Teams.
Q1: Types of TextLook at the front covers below and tell me what type of text are all
these books?
• Are they fiction or non-fiction?
• What kind of information might they include?
What is a Biography?
Summarise what you have read and what you already know to answer
this question.
-You might want to include some of the features of a biography
Q2: What is a Biography?
Activity 3: Identifying biographies
Tell me if the following extracts are from biographies or not.
• Use the language features from the previous page to help you
identify them.
Activity 4: Read the short biography about
Hitler on the next page and pick out the
structural features (changing their colour to
red) and the language features (changing
their colour to blue) on the Word document.
Structural Features
- introduction
-events of life in chronological
order
- closing statement, giving
author's opinion or explaining
how the person will be
remembered.
Language Features
- Refers to named individual
- Third person
- Written in past tense
(except parts of intro and
closing)
- Key dates/names/technical
vocabulary
- Interesting facts
- Direct and indirect speech
- Adverbials of time and place
Activity 5: Planning your own biography
Using what you have learned about Hitler and the features of a
biography to plan your own biography of his life.
Use the table on the word document to plan your paragraphs and to
organise your ideas.
Use the biography you have read and the information you gathered in
history to fill out your plan.
Use the websites below to conduct more research to add to your plan
further.
Websites
https://kids.britannica.com/kids/article/Adolf-
Hitler/353254
https://kids.kiddle.co/Adolf_Hitler
https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/adolf-hitler-man-and-
monster/zbrx8xs
Activity 6: Write your biography
Have a go at writing a biography about Hitler, using your plan. You can
type your biography straight on to the blank template Word document
and this way you will have help with your spelling. Upload the document
when you have finished. Don’t forget to edit and check your work before
handing it in.
• You can include pictures in your biography by inserting them into the
Word document.
• You could also add a glossary at the end of your biography for any
special topic or technical terms