A person’s family says a lot about who they are and why they have accomplished what they have. Their family life is often dependent on where they live or when they grew up. For this activity, students will create a storyboard about their person’s family, both past and present. The finished product can be used as the base for a larger biography project, and makes a great tool to organize information as they're researching!
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Objective: Create a 2-4 cell storyboard detailing information about the person’s family life, past and present if applicable.
Student Instructions:
Lead a discussion with students about time and how things happen in a certain order. When discussing family life in a biography, putting information in chronological order makes the most sense.
To help students more fully grasp the concepts, use their own life to help them understand time. Discuss their own birth, the birth of siblings, and other major life events to explain chronology.
Create headings to mark important events and moments in a biography and add a short summary to show further understanding of the event.
The role of family is extremely important to how someone grows up and will shape what happens to them for the rest of their lives. Their upbringing includes the people and places where they spent their early years, and family has a huge influence on people and the future decisions they make.
A biography is a true story about a person, so there would definitely be true stories in a biography about a person's family and the way they interact together.