Welcome to Al Dhafra Grade 6 Blog!
Biography and Autobiography Unit
What is a biography?
Bio means life.
Graph means writing.
Biographical
writing is about someone else’s life. It is about a real person but written by
someone else in third person.
A A biography contains key details of a person’s life. We use our question words to
help organise ideas:
Where they lived
When
they lived
How they lived
What they did and why
It
is written in chronological order. It can be about a living or
a dead person.
A biography provides information about the important events in a person's life.
A
biography will also talk about how the
person feels and the
emotions they
show.
What is an autobiography?
An autobiography is the writing about a person's life written by the person himself or herself. It is written in first person (pronouns such as I, me, my myself, we, us our).
Who is Jane Goodall?
Read Jane Goodall's biography and do the related activities.
Were you ever kind to an animal? Do you think animals forget people who are kind to them? Watch this video!
Do you know any story of an animal saving a human's life? Here is one. Watch this video.
China's Leap Year Forward
Jung Yang's Autobiography: Wild Swans
Read Spy Dog - Teacher's Pet Chapter 8. Is Lara going to save someone from an eminent danger? Find out!
Were you ever kind to an animal? Do you think animals forget people who are kind to them? Watch this video!
Do you know any story of an animal saving a human's life? Here is one. Watch this video.
China's Leap Year Forward
Jung Yang's Autobiography: Wild Swans
Read Spy Dog - Teacher's Pet Chapter 8. Is Lara going to save someone from an eminent danger? Find out!
