​Relationships the biography subject has:
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We can better understand what the subject of a biography is like by paying attention to the relationships the subject has with the people around him/her.
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Both good and bad relationships with others can impact the subject’s life. The reader’s job is to figure out how these relationships affect the subject.
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Think about the relationships that the subject of your biography has..
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Are they positive or negative relationships?
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How do the people in those relationships influence the subject?
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Do they help, bother, motivate, or hold back the subject?
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Complete the GoogleDoc about relationships that the subject of your biography has an analyze the cause and effect aspects of those relationships!
Lesson 4: How can we analyze your biography subject's decisions, challenges, relationships, and actions?
Decisions that the biography subject makes:
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Subjects in biographies have to make some extraordinary decisions, otherwise, no one would have written a book about them!
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The decisions that a subject makes tell us a lot about who they are on the inside.
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These decisions can be positive or negative, but regardless they show us who the subject is as a person.​
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In addition, all decisions are not easy ones to make, some decisions are complex/difficult.
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Readers must pay attention to those choices to understand the subject.
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Think about the decisions that the subject of your biography has made..
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Are they positive or negative decisions?
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What did you learn about the subject based on this decision?
- Did the decision impact their future or someone in their life?
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Complete the GoogleDoc about decisions that the subject of your biography has made and then analyze what that decision told you about your subject as a person!
Struggles that the biography subject faces:
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Just like in fiction stories about characters who have to face problems and hardships, the subject of a biography has to face struggles and hardships too!
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When we read a biography, we ask the subject, "What did you want" and "Why was it hard to get?"
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Think about the decisions that the subject of your biography has made..
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Are they positive or negative decisions?
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What did you learn about the subject based on this decision?
- Did the decision impact their future or someone in their life?
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Complete the GoogleDoc about struggles that the subject of your biography faces and analyze what the subject wanted/why it was hard to get!
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