What is a Biography?

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What is a Biography?

• Create your own definition of a biography.
• Round robin your answers.

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A biography is an account of the series of events
making up a person's life

• Answer the following questions after time is
  called, round robin your answers
• Who is a biography written about?
• What important events might you read about in a
  biography?
• When can a biography be written about a person?
• Where might an author do research for their
  biography?
• Why do you think biographies are written?

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BIOGRAPHY PROJECTA JOURNEY TO GREATNESS
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A SCRAPBOOK OF YOUR LIFE

• A scrapbook is something that you keep to
  remember the most important memories in your
  life.
• You will be creating a scrapbook based on the
  person you will be assigned to read about.
• There will be a set rubric for this project, so
  you should know your grade before you even turn
  it in!

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Pages of my story

• Bio Riddle
• This is a poem that you will create to recite for
  parents during Biography Night.
• Oh You Kid! Annoucement
• This is a page about your person as a child.
• Birth Certificate
• This is a birth certificate of your person's
  life.
• Family Tree
• This is a family tree for your character's life.
• Report Card
• This is a pretend report card that you will
  create about your person.
• Letter To Mom
• This is a letter from your person to his or her
  mother or father.
• Dear Diary
• This is an entry from your person's diary.
• Time of My Life
• This is a page that shows historic events that
  were going on during your person's life.
• Secret Box
• This is a story about a secret that your person
  had.
• Music

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PART I

• During the first phase of this project, you will,
  using the research youve compiled, create six
  documents
• OH, YOU KID!
• BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENT
• BIRTH CERTIFICATE
• FAMILY TREE
• REPORT CARD
• LETTER TO PARENT

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• These events focus on the early years, and family
  portion of your life

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Oh, You Kid! Announcement

• You will create a birth announcement for your
  subject. Be creative, try to use old world
  language, but make sure that your voice shines
  through. Ive given you an example page to work
  from, but make it your own!
• On the back of this page, you will write three
  paragraphs about your subjects childhood.
  Remember, you are writing as if you ARE him/her
  so his or her voice should shine through this
  paper.

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Birth Certificate

• Try and locate as many facts as possible to
  complete your Certificate and MAKE SURE YOUR
  SOURCES ARE RELIABLE! This is one part of the
  project where you may use the internet to locate
  your information
• Get creative, write, or use magazine clippings to
  add facts to your birth certificate. Creativity
  really enhances a project!
• All factual information should be written in
  black
• Any creative liberties should be written in blue

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FAMILY TREE
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• You may pick from the formats I have made
  available, or create your own family tree sheet
  using the supplies available.
• Here is an example

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• If you only haveinformation onyour parentsand
  grand-parents, thatis ok! Just fillyour tree
  with facts about them!

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REPORT CARD

• Do you know what kind of student your subject was
  in school? On one side of this page, you will
  create a report card. Think about all you know
  about your subject, where they sneaky and the
  class clown when they were young? Or were they a
  serious student?
• On the back side of this page, you will write an
  explanation as to why your subject received the
  grades that he or she did. Try and choose
  subjects that are relevant to your person. For
  instance, what may MLK Jrs subjects have been?

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For example
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LETTER TO MY PARENT

• This is a chance to BRAG, BRAG, BRAG!
• Write a letter to a parent, telling them how you
  are, and what youve been up to all these years
  since you left home. Maybe you would like to ask
  their advice on something? Maybe you would like
  to brag about your accomplishments
• Your letter should be between 8-15 sentences long
  and contain at least 6 facts about your
  accomplishments.

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PHASE II

• During this phase of the project, you will
  complete some morecreative artifacts from your
  life
• DEAR DIARY
• SECRET BOX
• NEWSFLASH
• WALLET

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DEAR DIARY

• Create a diary entry from an important event in
  your life.
• It could be happy, sad, funny, whatever you like!
• Some examples may be Birth of a child,
  marriage, loss of a loved one, or a day you
  received an award
• Must be 8 10 sentences in length

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TIME OF MY LIFE

• You will need to do research to find out the time
  period in which your person was alive.
• You will need to find an famous book or author or
  their time
• an invention or discovery of their time
• a famous artist or composer of their time
• an important social issue or historical event of
  their time
• another person of any time who did work like
  your person.
• A good resource to use is http//www.historychanne
  l.com and you can look for a time line based on
  century or decade to search for important events.

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SECRET BOX

• This is a secret that your person would have kept
  from the rest of the world. It does not need to
  be an actual object that was hidden. It can be an
  obstacle or difficult challenge that your
  person's had to overcome. It could also be
  something that they are afraid or ashamed for
  others to find out.
• Description of secret and WHY that could have
  been a deep secret that your person had must be
  at least 8 sentences.

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NEWSFLASH

• You will write a news story about your person's
  most important event.
• You need to have a date for when your article
  might have been seen in a newspaper.
• Make sure your give your story a headline and a
  photo.
• Be sure to not repeat any story you have already
  used for another scrapbook page.

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HOW I GET FIT

• Describe in one paragraph (5 complete sentences)
  a sport or physical activity that your character
  participated in during his or her life.
• You should be looking at the time period that
  your character lived and what physical activities
  were popular.
• Add illustrations of your character participating
  in that sport.
• Describe in another paragraph (5 complete
  sentences) a sport of physical activity of today
  that your character would participate in and
  explain why. Add illustrations of your character
  participating in that sport.

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MY WALLET

• Make a page that shows some of the following
  membership cards, licenses, credit cards,
  identification, cash, receipts, memos, lists,
  photographs, wrappers, coupons, business cards,
  calling cards, make-up, address book, maps,
  pencils, pens, handkerchiefs, sewing kit,
  keepsakes, souvenirs, passport, tickets, keys,
  notepad, stamps, envelopes, legal documents,
  letters, lists, tools of their trade, etc. This
  example shows explanations of what might have
  been in this person's wallet.

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PHASE III

• You are nearing the end of your life, and it is
  time to reflect on things past. What were the
  joys and the pains that youve been through?
  What lessons have you learned?
• You will search the internet to find an obituary
  for your subject, create a page of memories, and
  write a Dear Abby Letter to resolve that one
  problem youve most struggled with throughout
  your life, and write a bioriddle to present to
  parents at our LIVING MUSEUM night.

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OBITUARY

• Writing about the death of your person.
• Be sure to include his or her birth information,
  major life accomplishments and activities, and
  information about his or her family. If your
  person has not died yet, then you will need to
  give information as if he or she died today.

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MEMORIES

• You will choose two memories, a special friend,
  and a most prized possession from your person's
  life.
• For each you must have a picture, photograph, or
  magazine clipping and an explanation for each.
• Be sure to include page numbers from your book.

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DEAR ABBY

• For this page you will write a letter to an
  advice columnist in a newspaper with a problem
  your character has been having.
• Then you will pretend you are Abby the advice
  columnist and respond with writing a letter back
  to your character with advice to help with the
  problem.

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Bioriddle

• This poem should bewritten in first personusing
  I
• The poem should havethree five stanzaswith
  rhyme schemeABAB
• The poem must containfive eight facts