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Lesson plan: Biography and autobiography information exercise
From the Nelson Mandela online resource
Resources:
You will need:
Introduction and whole-class activity:
Show the selection of biographies and autobiographies to the class.
Ask the pupils questions such as:
1. What kind of books are these?
2. Which books are written in the first person, which are written
in the third person?
3. What do they tell us?
4. Why would a person choose to write about another person?
5. Would it be an easy task? Why?
6. Pick out the books written about Nelson Mandela. Who is Nelson
Mandela? Why would a person choose to write about him?
Read the first text by Mary Benson, A Desire to Serve the People,
telling of Nelson's life as a young boy. Show the pupils an enlarged
copy of the Nelson
Mandela Information worksheet.
Go through the text again slowly with the pupils and ask them to
decide which information should go into which box on the worksheet.
Make notes in the appropriate box as suggested by the pupils. Model
the way in which notes can be made from the text without writing
whole sentences.
Group activity:
Give out the Nelson Mandela Information worksheets to the pupils.
Give out the photocopied texts on Nelson Mandela cut randomly into
paragraphs. Ask the pupils, in pairs, to find out as much information
as they can to write up on their worksheets. Some of the information
may have already been shared. Can the pupils find out anything new?
Plenary:
Bring the class back together again with their worksheets. Can the
pupils add any additional information to what has already been recorded?
Was there any contradictory information? Have the pupils remembered
the difference between biography and autobiography? Which is written
in the first and which in the third person?
From the Nelson Mandela online resource
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