Composition: Introduction to Autobiography (Tuesday; 26/1) (Friday; 29/1)

January 25, 2021

K: Know the meaning of autobiography.

U: Understand the features of autobiography.

D: Do a Quizziz about autobiography.

Words of the Day

1. Biography

2. Auto

Autobiography

An autobiography is a text written about one's own life. Compared to autobiography, a biography is a text written about someone else's life (usually someone famous).

Here in autobiography, auto means self and bio means life.

Here are some famous autobiographies where the author is writing and describing themselves and their lives.

'I am Malala' is an autobiography told and written by Mala Yousafzai herself.

'Boy: Tales of Childhood' is an autobiography told and written by Roald Dahl himself.

There are 6 features of autobiography:

1. Written in formal language.

2. Written in the past tense and usually written in chronological order (in time order).

3. Text split up into paragraphs (usually each paragraph will detail the events of each part of author's life, for example: one paragraph to explain author's childhood, one to explain author's early adulthood).

4. Dates included so that the reader knows what happened and when.

5. Use first person point of view.

6. Talks about author and based on author's memories.

Task Time

Time to test your knowledge!