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Biography is history seen through the prism of a person – Louis Fischer
Why teach biography?
This writing project will show children how they can document the lives of people in their communities.
They will discover how the lives of ordinary people they know can be sources of great historical, social and personal interest – not only to themselves as the writer but to others too. All people’s lives are interesting, but we don’t always realise it ourselves.
Talk for writing symbolsEveryone in our society has a story to tell, and by asking the right questions and sharing these stories publicly, children learn that they can give a voice to those people who would never otherwise have had an audience.
Biography writing has strong elements of memoir, although it will be about other people that the writer knows personally or has heard of through family members, friends or the community.
At their very best, biographies can carry within them great opportunities for poetic description and rich anecdote. On
