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Lesson plan: Biographies of Nelson Mandela
From the Nelson Mandela online resource
Resources:
You will need:
Introduction and whole-class activity:
Ask the pupils questions about biographies and autobiographies,
for example:
1. Who can write them?
2. Why would a person choose to write a biography or autobiography?
3. What makes the lives of certain people so interesting?
4. What can you learn about a person by reading about their life?
5. What can you learn about yourself?
6. What makes a best seller?
Read the extract from Ben Pogrund's biography of Nelson Mandela.
Add any additional notes to the original
Nelson Mandela Information worksheet. Referring to the
biographies and autobiographies, how would the pupils choose which
one to read? How does the writer make the reader stay interested,
without exaggerating?
Model the opening of a biography of Nelson Mandela with the class.
Consider the choice of vocabulary, the style, and ways in which
to engage the reader.
Group activity:
Ask the pupils to begin their own biographies of Nelson Mandela,
using the information from the previous lessons. Additional time
will be needed to complete these biographies.
Plenary:
The pupils share their favourite sentences or phrases that they
have used to grip the reader.
From the Nelson Mandela online resource
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