my thoughts about this genre or this project:Nonfiction is cool because it really happened or exists or existed contrary to fiction, in which everything's just a figment of the writer's imagination.
my questions about this genre or this project:When will it be due?
my to-do list for tomorrow:research
When was the first biography created? Couldn't find it.
Does a biography always go in chronological order?
How many types of biographies are there?
A. popular biographies
B. historical biographies
C. literary biographies
D. reference biographies
E. fictional biographies
Why are biographies an important look into the past?
What kind of biographies could I benefit from educationally to read?
What kind of people would have biographies?
Are there movies about biographies?
Schindler's List
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1993 movies based on a true story and very moving. 18 points - added 6 months ago by BrendaKaye - [add comment]
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The Pianist
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2002 movie based on a true story. 12 points - added 6 months ago by BrendaKaye - [add comment]
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Goodfellas
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1990 classic biography style movie. 9 points - added 6 months ago by BrendaKaye - [add comment]
Effectively banned in Germany - the rights are currently claimed by the Freestate of Bavaria and the state tries to prevent any re-printing but there is no law against owning or trading the original. Banned in some European nations and the Russian Federation as extremist.
In my oppinion, biographies may help to teach people about important things in the past. It's a gateway to the knowladge in many ways needed to keep us from repeating the mistakes made in the past.
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At the most basic level, biographies satisfy an adolescent’s need to know and a desire to find out more about a person, event, or topic. But there is more than that. According to Hurst (2001), biographies personalize history by focusing on the motivations and driving forces behind personal actions. Through biographies, adolescents can see that, while social constructs can be harmful to some individuals and helpful to others, these constructs can be challenged and changed (Taylor, 1996). By seeing the choices that others have made and how those choices determined the course of an individual’s life, adolescents can begin to realize that they too can make choices and that their decisions will influence their future. As Akmal and Ayre-Svingen (2002) note, if adolescents are to realize that history is more than the study of dead people, educators must use the connection between inquiry and biography to help young adults see the relationship between past events and the realities of the present.
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A. popular biographies
B. historical biographies
C. literary biographies
D. reference biographies
E. fictional biographies
Schindler's List
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In my oppinion, biographies may help to teach people about important things in the past. It's a gateway to the knowladge in many ways needed to keep us from repeating the mistakes made in the past.
Reasons for Using and Teaching Biographies
by K. Bucher|M. Lee ManningSource: Pearson Allyn Bacon Prentice Hall
Topics: Teen Years (13-19), Recommended Topic-Based Books, Preteen and Teen Reading
At the most basic level, biographies satisfy an adolescent’s need to know and a desire to find out more about a person, event, or topic. But there is more than that. According to Hurst (2001), biographies personalize history by focusing on the motivations and driving forces behind personal actions. Through biographies, adolescents can see that, while social constructs can be harmful to some individuals and helpful to others, these constructs can be challenged and changed (Taylor, 1996). By seeing the choices that others have made and how those choices determined the course of an individual’s life, adolescents can begin to realize that they too can make choices and that their decisions will influence their future. As Akmal and Ayre-Svingen (2002) note, if adolescents are to realize that history is more than the study of dead people, educators must use the connection between inquiry and biography to help young adults see the relationship between past events and the realities of the present.