Biography writing exercises

Write your own biography and publish it on Writing with Writers

Select Biographies and Memoirs and list them under the headings based on people whose work was in sports, science, engineering, the arts and anything else that may grab a student passing by the table

Use the Interactive Venn Diagram to record the difference between autobiography and biography

EXERCISE 2: Identify the sentences that answer the given questions to show the structure and features of a sample biography

EXERCISE 3: Determine the author’s use of narrative language and techniques for the given sample biography – Part 1

Students use spoken, written, and visual language to accomplish their own purposes (e

, for learning, enjoyment, persuasion, and the exchange of information)

Ask students what a biography is and show an example of one

Ask them what sort of things they would expect to find out about a person’s life in a biography