1. From Long Walk to Freedom
by NELSON MANDELA

2. What is Nonfiction? Writing about real people, places, and events
Biography
Autobiography
Essay
Informative Article
Interview

3. Autobiography The story of a person’s life Told by that person
First-person point of view
Normally book length to cover whole life
Shorter versions:
Journals, diaries, letters, and memoirs

4. Biography The story of a person’s life Told by someone else
Contains same elements as fiction
Plot, character, and setting

5. Main Idea and Supporting Details
Most nonfiction focuses on a main idea.
Main idea is the most important point or message that the writer wants to communicate.
Supporting Details give more information about the main idea.

6. resiliency
Noun
The ability to recover quickly from illness; change or misfortune

7. incomprehensible
Adj
Not understandable (hard to understand)

8. transitory
Adj
Lasting only a short time; temporary

9. curtailed (curtail)
Adj (verb)
Cut short

10. indivisible
Adj
Incapable of being divided