What do

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What do these people have in common?
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You can find them in your school library.
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92 BIOGRAPHY
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A biography is an account of a person's life
written by another person.
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A biography is written with third person
pronouns.
she
he
people
it
their
they
them
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An autobiobraphy is an account of a person's
life written by that person.
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An autobiography is written with first
person pronouns.
I
we
Me
us
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• The following quotes came from either a biography
• or an autobiography.
• Hold up the card that indicates which each quote
• came from.

I was lucky that by the time Miss Whites school
closed, there was a public junior high school
for blacks in ontgomery.
Rosa Parks, Civil Rights Leader
In the end, perhaps because he was realistic
about his chances for success as a six-foot-one
inch basketball player, he decided to pursue a
football scholarship.
Joe Montana, NFL Quarterback
My first gold medal. I was overwhelmed with
excitement,joy, relief all the possible feeling
wrapped up in one.This is the medal I later
buried with my father.
Carl Lewis, Olympic Gold Medal Winner
The soldiers had no food, blankets, or medical
supplies. Seeing the desperate need. Barton went
to work. She took the most severely wounded to
her sisters home in the city.
Clara Barton Founder of the American Red Cross
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