Autobiographical Text
English Language: KS3, topic 5.1.4
Autobiographical Text
An autobiography is a text written in the first person about a person’s life.
Autobiography
- Autobiographical texts often span decades.
- Autobiographical texts describe the most important events in the person’s life.
- Autobiography also includes a person's thoughts and feelings.
Autobiographies & biographies
- Autobiographies and biographies have some similarities as well as differences.
- Autobiographies and biographies are about one person’s life and describe key events of this person’s life in the past tense.
- A biography is written about someone else’s life.
- An autobiography is about the writer’s life.
Famous autobiographies
- Many famous people have written and published autobiographies, including actors, politicians and musicians.
- Sometimes autobiographies are also called ‘memoirs’.
- Memoirs are often written to inspire and motivate the reader.
- Memoirs also provide factual information about a person’s life.
'Becoming’ by Michelle Obama
- One famous autobiography is called ‘Becoming’ by Michelle Obama.
- Michelle Obama was the previous First Lady when her husband Barack Obama was President.
Michelle Obama's autobiography
- Michelle Obama's autobiography gives details about her and her family’s time in the White House during his presidency.
- Michelle Obama's autobiography also describes her life before this during her childhood.
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