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To write a biography
(part 2)

You are going to complete your biography on Harriet Tubman today by writing the ‘Civil War’ and concluding paragraphs.

These are the things I am looking for in your writing:
• Introductory and linking sentences
• A range of relevant facts
• A range of sentence starters
• Who/which relative clauses
• A range of formal ‘and’ / ‘but’ conjunctions
• A concluding conjunction in your final paragraph

Once again, follow the examples on the video, but remember to make the writing your own. Keep checking back at your notes, plan and the success criteria to help you.

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To write a biography
(part 1)
You are going to start writing your biography today, make sure you have your notes and plan from the last couple of lessons nearby to help you.

These are the things I am looking for in your writing:
• Introductory and linking sentences
• A range of relevant facts
• A range of sentence starters
• Who/which relative clauses
• A range of formal ‘and’ / ‘but’ conjunctions

You will write the introduction, ‘Early Life’ and ‘Leading Others to Freedom’ paragraphs today. Follow the examples on the video, but remember to make the writing your own. Keep checking back at your notes, plan and the success criteria to help you.

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To plan a biography

For this lesson you will need the work you did in yesterday’s lesson where you gathered all the information about Harriet Tubman.

Use the layout shown in the video and your notes from last lesson to plan out what you will include in each paragraph

EG:

Subheading

Intro sentence: ________

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Linking sentence: ______

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Here are some more websites you could explore if you want to find out more to add to your plan:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/class-clips-video/true-stories-harriet-tubman/zbh8mfr

https://www.ducksters.com/biography/women_leaders/harriet_tubman.php

https://planbee.com/blogs/news/harriet-tubman-facts-for-kids

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To gather information on an inspirational figure

This is an important lesson as you will be getting all the information you need to write your biography.
The inspirational figure you will be writing about is Harriet Tubman, who was known for fighting to get slavery abolished.

Have a look at the examples of how you want to organise your information, maybe you want to use a mind map, or just split your page up into subheadings.

The three areas you will gather information on are:

Harriet Tubman’s early life

How she led others to freedom

Her part in the Civil War

Remember to only use keywords and phrases as today’s lesson is like a plan. It might also be useful to think about the key vocabulary you would want to include to stay factual.

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To identify features of a biography

For this short block you are going to study some biographical writing. This means that you are going to be writing about the life of someone else.
It is important to listen carefully and maybe list some of the key features so you can go back to them when you come to write the biography. It might be useful to write some examples of what those features look are.

For your main task, use the extracts of text about Maya Angelou shown in the video and find examples of the features given. You should present your work by listing the feature and putting an example that you found in the text next to it. You could do something like this:

Title = ________________
Subheading = ____________
Dates = _________ etc…

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