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Biographies and autobiographies

Watch: What are autobiographies and biographies?

Biographies and autobiographies are both types of non-fiction stories about someone’s life.

They are both based in fact but there are some key differences between them.

Watch this video in which teacher Mr McPartlin explains the differences.

Listen carefully and join in with the activities.

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Similarities and differences

Time for a recap on those similarities and differences!

Both biographies and autobiographies:

  • tell the story of someone’s life

  • are written in the past tense

  • follow chronological order (the order in which things actually happened)

  • are non-fiction

BiographyAutobiography
Written by a person about someone else’s life.Written by a person about their own life.
Written in third person (//)Written in first person ()

To see some examples, watch the first minute of each of these clips.

The first clip is written as a biography of activist Rosa Parks and the second clip is written as if it were an autobiography.

Can you spot the differences?

Watch: Rosa Parks biography example

We use buses every day to go to school or into town. It's not unusual, but this story is about a bus journey that changed millions of lives.

Let's go to America, in , to Montgomery in the southern state of Alabama.

There, when a woman called Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat, a bus journey became very important.

Rosa's refusal was a protest about racism against black people.

Autobiography of non famous person report We get it: Life is hard. And when the going gets rough, sometimes we all need a little perspective — or just an escape from our own day-to-day — to get through it. That's when many readers turn to memoirs. The best memoirs let readers walk a mile in someone else's shoes, striking that perfect balance between feeling like you're reading someone's diary and learning more about the world outside your own two ears. How quickly can you solve it?

Racism is when someone thinks you’re not as good as them because the colour of your skin or your race is different to theirs, so they treat you differently.

At that time, southern states in America, had something called ‘segregation’. This meant people of different skin colours had different schools, restaurants, even toilets.

Segregation happened on buses too.

One day, Rosa was in a seat for black people, but white people's seats were full.

The bus driver wanted Rosa to give her seat to a white person, but Rosa said no!

Rosa was a member of a civil rights group which fought for black and white people to be treated the same.

She was arrested and taken to jail for a few hours.

Rosa didn't fight alone, people organised a bus boycott, which meant they stopped using buses for a year.

They walked instead.

Autobiography of non famous person report template There's something profoundly compelling about delving into the firsthand accounts of individuals who've shaped our world. The best autobiographies ever written afford us a unique glimpse into the minds and hearts of those who've lived extraordinary lives. Through their words, we're invited to experience their joys, sorrows, triumphs, and failures, bridging the gap between history and humanity in the most intimate way possible. Anne Frank's diary offers a heart-wrenching perspective of life during the Holocaust that's both deeply personal and universally resonant. On the other hand, Mandela's autobiography tells a tale of resilience and dedication to justice that inspired a nation and the world.

This bus company lost a lot of money. The boycott was a peaceful stand against racism.

Judges eventually said having separate black and white parts of buses was not allowed.

"Hello, friends of freedom. It's a wonderful day and let us be thankful we have reached this point and we will go farther from now to greater things.

Thank you!"

Today, Rosa Parks is remembered as an ordinary woman who took a stand to help black people in America be treated fairly. To be treated the same as whites.

Watch: Rosa Parks autobiography example

Top tip!

Autobiographies tell you more about the person’s thoughts and feelings, however they may not always give you the full picture about someone’s life.

If the person telling the story doesn't want to mention things that don't make them look good, they could just miss them out!

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Complete this true or false quiz about biographies and autobiographies.

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Click on the image below to read a biography from Bitesize KS2 History about the famous fossil hunter Mary Anning.

Imagine the same story, but told by Mary Anning herself.

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How would it be different? What would Mary's thoughts and feelings be?

Re-write the story as if you were Mary writing your autobiography.

Use this sentence to start you off:

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You don't have to be famous to write an autobiography!

People in the future will be very interested in the life you are leading right now.

If you could write a letter for someone in the future, what would you tell your reader?

You could mention:

  • the things you do in your daily life

  • the things you like and that you are interested in

  • the changes you have seen in your life in the last year

  • your thoughts and feelings about what has happened to you

You could start your autobiography with these words:

Top tip!

When you have written your autobiography, you could make a copy and hide it somewhere.

Perhaps, in hundreds of years’ time, someone will find it and discover what it was like to be you, today!

Challenge

Have you ever read a biography or autobiography?

Lots of famous people from history, or even those alive today, have written or had books written about their lives.

Why not see if you can find an autobiography or biography of your favourite pop star, sports star or celebrity to read?

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