Stage 5 - T1W7L4 - Autobiography

• ​Review the features of biography on the quiz

• ​Introduce the success criteria

• ​Discuss the meaning of autobiography

• ​Study the features of autobiography

• ​Work on the quiz

• ​Read an autobiography of Rosa Parks

• ​Homework

• ​Self - Assessment

• ​I can Identify the features of autobiography.

• I can name the features of autobiography.

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​What does AUTO mean?

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An autobiography is the true story of your own life.

The purpose of autobiography is to tell the story of one's own life. ​

​What do you think about the features of AUTOBIOGRAPHY?

• ​Tense - Written in the Past tense.

• ​Events are written in chronological order.

• ​Written in the first person - I, we, me, my , our etc.,

• ​Dates linked to specific events.

• ​Events are anecdotal in style (rather than list of facts) and engage the reader.

  ​Include feelings.

• ​Use adverbs and adverbial phrases – when, where or how the action   takes place

• Use time connectives to link sentences and paragraphs – then, after that, firstly, before that, etc.

​How it all started

​One evening in early December 1955 I was sitting in the front seat of the colored section of a bus in Montgomery, Alabama. The white people were sitting in the white section. More white people got on, and they filled up all the seats in the white section. When that happened, we black people were supposed to give up our seats to the whites. But I didn't move.

​ The white driver said, "Let me have those front seats." I didn't get up. I was tired of giving in to white people.

​"I'm going to have you arrested," the driver said.

​"You may do that," I answered.

​Two white policemen came. I asked one of them, "Why do you all push us around?"

​He answered, " I don't know, but the law is the law and you're under arrest."

​Rosa Parks

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1. ​Write 3 sentences that used past tense.

2. ​Write 3 sentences that used first person.

3. ​Find at least 3 adverbial phrase.

4. ​Find at least 3 connectives

​Write your answer in your notebook and upload in our Google classroom.