2. Objectives You will be able to: 1. Read for comprehension. 2. Identify and define biography and autobiography. 3. Identify the form and characteristics of biography and autobiography.

3. Take Out Binder with Paper Remember Cornell Note-taking method.

4. Biography The story of a person’s life written by another person

5. Biography/Autobiography In Greek, the word bios means “life” and graphia means “writing.” A biography is a “written life.” “Auto” means self in Greek. An autobiography is the written story of the writer’s own life.

6. Biography We look for factual accuracy and objectivity. Biographies are based on study and research. Writing objectively requires an unbiased account of the subject.

7. Biography What is unbiased? http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/unbiased?q src=2888 http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/unbiased?q src=2888

8. So, Was “Eleanor Roosevelt” a biography or autobiography? How do you know?

9. Autobiography The story of a person’s life written by that person. We look for subjectivity. We look for the author to get personal.

10. Nonfiction Subjective details can be verified only by reference to the reader's state of mind (feelings, opinions) Objective details can be verified. They are factual.

11. Personal Essay A short work of nonfiction that expresses the writer’s thoughts and feelings on a subject.

12. Personal Narrative An account of an incident from a writer’s life.

13. Anecdote Brief (short) stories of real life events

14. Chronological Order A way of organizing information by presenting events in the order they happened.

15. melancholy adj. sad; gloomy; depressed. ~ In the Middle Ages, people thought sadness resulted from a body fluid called bile, and they used the Greek words for black bile to label this mood. Rainy days make me melancholy, although I know there is no reason to feel sad.

16. Textbook Page 780 – Read independently for 9 minutes. When you finish, try to answer the questions 1-6 on page 787 in your head. Read along with audio - Audio Unit 07-04

18. Closing