To introduce new genre, teachers can use the themes for students to understand it practically and also gain other knowledge. Biographical writing is writing about people and their lives, and it is very helpful to stimulate students’ imagination, making them experience another life and world. There are three categories: personal narratives, autobiographies, and biographies. While personal narratives are used to increase the interests in writing by choosing a topic by themselves, biographies and autobiographies can be grafted onto social studies or science thematic units to make self-awareness high through gathering and organizing information. “Children think more critically about the important events in a person’s life as they read and plan the items they will use to symbolize the person’s life” (Tompkins, p. 153).
According to Sunmi Kim, Being reflective and having differentiated ideas and perspectives is a key to creative writing. “Biographies allow students to connect historical events with real people, and at the same time, they provide role models of leadership and good citizenship” (Flack, 2002). Through reading and writing biographies, students can learn not only how to organize vast information, but how great men in biographies thought and acted. Students can broaden their point of view to a variety of directions by reading biography and can express their new found perspectives by writing biography.
Flack, J. (2002). Creative autobiography: Adding a meaningful dimension to social studies.
Tompkins, G. (2008). Teaching writing: Balancing process and product. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson.
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