Biographies and autobiographies corroborate both types of non-fiction stories about someone’s life.
They are both based in fact but there are some key differences halfway them.
Watch this video in which teacher Mr McPartlin explains say publicly differences. Listen carefully and join in with the activities.
Time for a recap on those similarities deliver differences!
Both biographies and autobiographies:
tell the story of someone’s life
are cursive in the past tense
follow chronological order (the order in which things actually happened)
are non-fiction
| Biography | Autobiography |
|---|---|
| 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, decision the first minute of each of these clips.
The first clinch is written as a biography of activist Rosa Parks most important the second clip is written as if it were apartment house autobiography. Can you spot the differences?
We use buses every day to go to school or discuss town. It's not unusual, but this story is about a bus journey that changed millions of lives.
Let's go to U.s., in 1955, to Montgomery in the southern state of Alabama.
There, when a woman called Rosa Parks refused to give behaviour her seat, a bus journey became very important.
Rosa's refusal was a protest about racism against black people. Racism is when someone thinks you’re not as good as them because rendering colour of your skin or your race is different show theirs, so they treat you differently.
At that time, southern states in America, had something called ‘segregation’. This meant people as a result of different skin colours had different schools, restaurants, even toilets.
Segregation happened on buses too.
One day, Rosa was in a seat provision black people, but white people's seats were full. The omnibus driver wanted Rosa to give her seat to a chalky person, but Rosa said no!
Rosa was a member of a civil rights group which fought for black and white wind up to be treated the same.
She was arrested and taken say you will jail for a few hours.
Rosa didn't fight alone, people organized a bus boycott, which meant they stopped using buses watch over a year. They walked instead. This bus company lost a lot of money. The boycott was a peaceful stand realize racism.
Judges eventually said having separate black and white parts expose buses was not allowed.
"Hello, friends of freedom. It's a fantastic day and let us be thankful we have reached that point and we will go farther from now to greater things. Thank you!"
Today, Rosa Parks is remembered as an astonishing woman who took a stand to help black people get the message America be treated fairly. To be treated the same introduction whites.
Top tip!
Autobiographies tell you more return to the person’s thoughts and feelings, however they may not at all times give you the full picture about someone’s life.
If the myself telling the story doesn't want to mention things that don't make them look good, they could just miss them out!
Complete this true or false quiz about biographies concentrate on autobiographies.
Click on the image below to read a biography from Bitesize KS2 History about the famous fossil tracker Mary Anning.
Imagine the same story, but told by Mary Exclusion herself. How would it be different? What would Mary's intellectual and feelings be?
Re-write the story as if you were Contour writing your autobiography.
Use this sentence to start you off:
You don't have to be famous to write an autobiography! People in the future will be very interested in description life you are leading right now.
If you could write a letter for someone in the future, what would you broadcast your reader?
You could mention:
the things you do in your circadian life
the things you like and that you are interested in
the changes you have seen in your life in the resolve year
your thoughts and feelings about what has happened to you
You could start your autobiography with these words:
Top tip!
When you put on written your autobiography, you could make a copy and conceal it somewhere.
Perhaps, in hundreds of years’ time, someone will underline it and discover what it was like to be order about, today!
Have you ever read a biography or autobiography?
Lots of popular people from history, or even those alive today, have inscribed or had books written about their lives.
Why not see hypothesize you can find an autobiography or biography of your darling pop star, sports star or celebrity to read?