Exploring Biographies: Uncovering Lives

Exploring Biographies: Uncovering Lives
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This lesson contains 13 slides, with interactive quizzes and text slides.

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Exploring Biographies: Uncovering Lives

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Learning Objective
Understand the key features of biographies and different narrative styles.

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What do you already know about biographies?

Slide 3 - Mind map

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What is a Biography?
A biography is a written account of a person's life, typically focusing on their achievements, experiences, and impact.

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Key Features of Biographies
Factual information, chronological order, and timelines are key features of biographies.

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Narrative Styles
Biographies can be written in informative and narrative styles.

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Interactive Activity: True or False
Present statements about a famous person and have students determine if they are true or false.

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Analyzing Timelines
Examine a timeline of significant events in a person's life and discuss its importance in a biography.

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Biography Writing Task
In pairs, students will choose a person to research and write a short biography.

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Review and Reflection
Discuss the biographies created by the students and reflect on the key features and narrative styles observed.

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Write down 3 things you learned in this lesson.

Slide 11 - Open question

Have students enter three things they learned in this lesson. With this they can indicate their own learning efficiency of this lesson.
Write down 2 things you want to know more about.

Slide 12 - Open question

Here, students enter two things they would like to know more about. This not only increases involvement, but also gives them more ownership.
Ask 1 question about something you haven't quite understood yet.

Slide 13 - Open question

The students indicate here (in question form) with which part of the material they still have difficulty. For the teacher, this not only provides insight into the extent to which the students understand/master the material, but also a good starting point for the next lesson.