English autobiography project

          Use this My Self in English activity to teach your Year classes the features of an autobiography, and help them write their own!

        1. This half term your child will spend their English homework time working on an.
        2. This Autobiography project worksheet has been designed to help children tell their story, while learning about important writing techniques along the way.
        3. In this unit, students write autobiographies, illustrate them, and set them to music.
        4. This is a 4-page handout that gives students directions for an autobiography writing assignment for a Creative Writing or Language Arts.

          5. This Autobiography project worksheet has been designed to help children tell their story, while learning about important writing techniques along the way.!

          Writing autobiography

          Science fiction author Robert A Heinlein once wrote:

          Autobiography is usually honest but never truthful.

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          Introduction to writing autobiography

          Key learning points

          • What is an autobiography?
          • Where does the word autobiography come from?
          • Understand why autobiographies are written
          • How to structure an autobiography

          Video about writing autobiography

          An autobiography is the story of a person’s life.

          It is different to a diary, which is usually a personal account of events but as they happen. And it’s different to a biography, which is the story of someone’s life, but written by somebody else.

          There are different ways to tell the story of someone’s journey through life.

          Using a traditional story arc, with a clear beginning, middle and ending, can make an autobiography more interesting and engaging.

          You can start at the beginning, your birth, and describe the journey from there.

          Or you can start later in your story, at the point w