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READING BIOGRAPHY

READING BIOGRAPHY . DEFINITION. A biography is the story of a person’s life. A biography is written by another writer, called the biographer. The person being written about is the subject.

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READING BIOGRAPHY

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  1. READING BIOGRAPHY

  2. DEFINITION • A biography is the story of a person’s life. • A biography is written by another writer, called the biographer. • The person being written about is the subject. • Biographies can be written about anyone, but most are written about people who are famous or historically or culturally important.

  3. AUTHOR’S PURPOSE • Most biographers have two goals in mind: • To tell an interesting story about the events in a person’s life • To create a portrait or impression of that person so that the reader can understand what they were really like

  4. AS YOU READ • Consider what you already know about the person, if anything. What questions do you have?

  5. Consider cause and effect in the person’s life. • What events were important in the person’s life? • How did these events shape the person’s life? • How would you, the reader, describe this person? • How do you the reader feel about the person?

  6. DETAILS • Focus on details about the time in which the subject lived. • Focus on details about the places in which they lived. • Look for key events and their relationship to each other. • Look for details about the person, and what they were like, how they looked and behaved, how other people responded to them and how you feel about them.

  7. Biographers nearly always have a bias in their writing. They want to create a strong impression for their reader, whether positive or not. They want you to share their opinion of the subject.

  8. Consider how the writer describes the person. • The writer’s tone will reveal his feelings about the person and will probably affect yours. • INDIRECT CHARACTERIZATION means that the writer shows you what the subject was like, while DIRECT CHARACTERIZATION means that the author directly tells you something about the subject.

  9. RESEARCH • Biographers depend on PRIMARY SOURCES like journals, letters, birth records, or other government documents. • Other sources (SECONDARY SOURCES) might be a book written about the person, or another document in which they are referred to. • Good, thorough research means that a writer can write a more interesting and accurate portrayal of his subject.

  10. Biographies are written in chronological order, and trace key events in the subject’s life from birth throughout adult life.

  11. STRATEGIES FOR READING • Time lines • Cause and Effect organizers • Outlines

  12. OUTLINE SUBJECT • MAIN IDEA A. Detail B. Detail II. MAIN IDEA A. Detail B. Detail

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