Biography

What is a biography?

• A written text about a person that is not true

• record of an event in a person's life from the author's viewpoint.

• a record of event of an author written in first person viewpoint.

• A record that describes a mythical creature

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CCSS.RI.5.4

Which of these sentences could come from a biography text?
Choose two.

• You visited New York last year.

• I was born in 1969.

• He is a world-famous athlete.

• She lived in Australia all her life.

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CCSS.W.5.9A

What must a biography contain?
Choose two answers.

• dates

• opinion

• facts

• pictures

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CCSS.W.5.2B

Events in a biography are usually organised in ________ order.

• mind map

• chronological order

• non-chronological order

• bulletin

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CCSS.RI.5.5

Choose the 2 features of a biography.

• Must include pictures

• Has no dates

• Events are in chronological order

• Written in third person viewpoint

Is a biography fiction or non-fiction?

What is the point of view in a biography?

• 3rd person

• 1st person

• 4th person

• 2nd person

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CCSS.RL.5.6

Which of the following is an example of "major achievement" in a biography?

• Studied at an university

• date of birth

• lived in a big city

• published a famous storybook.

A biography is written in _____ tense

• simple past

• simple present

• present

• future

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CCSS.L.5.1C

When a biography uses what the person said, it is called __________.

• indirect speech

• opinion

• direct speech

• caption