Walter Dean Myers - Biography or Memoir?

Which statements below are true about a BIOGRAPHY? (check all that apply)

• The writer and the subject are different people (it is written in the third-person).

• The subject of the story is a real person.

• The writer is telling his or her own story (first-person narration).

• The writer tells the whole story of a person's life.

• The writer tells about one or more important memories from a specific part of his/her life.

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Which statements below are true about a MEMOIR? (check all that apply)

• The writer and the subject are different people (it is written in the third-person).

• The subject of the story is a real person.

• The writer is telling his or her own story (first-person narration).

• The writer tells the whole story of a person's life.

• The writer tells about one or more important memories from a specific part of his/her life.

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"When I was a kid in the late forties, I thought the whole world was like Harlem"

• Biography

• Memoir

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"Myers' mother died when he was three, so foster parents raised him and his two sisters."

• Biography

• Memoir

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"We learned to play basketball in the church gym."

• Biography

• Memoir

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"In 1984, he graduated from Empire State College"

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• Memoir

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"All the way through school, Myers loved reading and loved writing his own stories."

• Biography

• Memoir

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"We also stuck our fingers with a pin and swore in blood that we wouldn't tell who had done it."

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• Memoir

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"Feeling he had no chance at college, Myers dropped out in 1954."

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• Memoir

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