Video: To plan a biography

﻿Hi, it's Miss Van Vliet here. I hope that you are well. So today, we are doing our six lesson in this unit on biography writing. And today's lesson is all about planning. So last lesson, you wouldn't research and get information on Harriet Tubman. And today we're going to put all of that information into a plan so that we're ready to write in the next lesson. So let's get started A learning objective for today's to plan a biography. Our agenda is as follows. We're going to do a writing warmup. Then we're going to plan the introduction in the plan, the body of the biography. And then we're going to plan the conclusion. So in this lesson, you will need your exercise book or paper or pen and pencil, and you'll also need your notes from the research lesson. So make sure you have those notes from last lesson, but we researched. And when he gathered information, Harriet Tubman, if you need to go and get those things, now do that and pause the video. Okay. So you should also be in a nice quiet space that you can concentrate and focus and have all of those items, right with you. Okay. For the writing warmup today, I'd like you to write a sentence using a who, which relative calls for Harriet Tubman. And the first lesson in this unit, we looked at a biography on Maya Angelou, and I have a sentence as an example. So Maya Angelou, who was a writer was also a civil rights activist. So my, who was a writer is that relative clues with that relative pronoun who, because it's Maya and Maya, is a person and I've added in some extra information in my main clues. Remember I have separated them by two commas. So who is for people and which is for places and things. So pause the video now and write a sentence with a relative clause for Harriet Tubman. Okay. Here is the example that I came up with Harry Tubman, who lived this life on a cotton plantation, slept in a one room cabin with 13 other family members. Do you see how I've added in some extra information to my race with clues into my sentence, sorry, with my relative clues who lived as a slave on a cotton plantation that is added in extra information. So just check your sentence and see that you've got what I have here, that you have your, of course, separated by two commas and that you are who, if you're talking about Harriet Tubman. So Harriet Tubman who, of if you are talking about a thing about how he Tubman, then it can be which just check yours, you can give yourself a tick. Well then. Okay. So what is an introduction? Well, in an introduction, we include general information and we do not go into specific detail yet. We need an introductory sentence, two or three general facts, and then a linking sentence. So we have like an overarching intro to the topics. We don't want to put too much at specific facts yet, because otherwise you're not going to have anything to write about in your biography. So we want to go general and then we want to go into more specific. So the introduction is really general. You want to just talk about Harriet, who she was, don't want to say too much, because if you give too much detail, then you're going to be stuck and you're going to be repeating your same information in your body of your biography. So keep it really general. So what I'd like you to do now is to get your paper laid out in the way like I did. So have your piece of paper write an introduction. Underline it just so you know, and remember, that's my planning for my introduction. Just intro sentence. So you can put, enter S I don't mind, and those have some space, but some bullet points leave some space and then have a linking sentence, and then some space to pause the video and do that now. Okay. So your page, looks like this now, we can fill it in. So you want to think about your introductory sentence. So some ideas I had was that you might want to start with an adverb like fascinatingly, Harriet Tubman devoted her life to, and then those bullet points are those general facts. So have a look in your research paper and the notes that you took in the last lesson, and think about some general facts that you could add in here. So you to maybe two or three general facts, you don't need much more, and don't go into anything too specific at this point, because otherwise it'll be stuck in your main body and you wonder to want to write. And then as a linking sentence, well, I wrote a linking sentence because what you really want is for your, the last sentence in your paragraph to link to the next sentence in the next paragraph. So that when you read the whole biography, there's a really nice flow to your writing. So I'm going to help you a bit with that, cause it's quite tricky. So for an introduction, a linking sentence, a really good one is just to have read on, to find out more about it. Remember to keep it ambitious. So don't just say, read on to find out more about Harriet's. You could say the remarkable woman, this inspirational figure, this inspirational civil rights activists, think about those word choices. So what I'd like you to do now is to pause the video and complete your introductory plan. So make sure that you have an intro sentence. What's your first sentence going to be? You don't need to write the whole sentence, but just have a think about it. Maybe put a sentence starter in then think of two or three facts, general facts that you could write to introduce people to Harriet Tubman. You've got to imagine that whoever's reading. This might not know anything about it. So you might want to say something about her being a civil rights activist and that she campaigned for that for a whole life. Something like that. Look at over those research notes from last lesson. And then just come up with your linking sentence. If you write that now, then you're right. When you start to write, your biography becomes much easier. So pause the video and do that. Well done. I hope people, I hope you have that completed. Let's look at planning the body of a biography. So I don't mean the actual body. I mean the body of our writing. So what is the main body? And the main body is split into different paragraphs. And we use subheadings to group our facts. Each paragraph needs an introductory sentence, key facts, and then a linking sentence. So like our introduction, we want to start the paragraph off with a bit of an introductory sentence. So that's that kind of links back to the previous paragraph. And then we want some key facts. And of course we want to use our sentence starters and our conjunctions to make our writing interesting. And then we want a linking sentence. So that is the ending sentence, but then links it to the next paragraph so that all our writing will flow. And so when you read it, it reads with a bit of flow. That's not very easy. So we'll work together on that. So what we're going to do for our planning lesson today is that we are going to go through and plan this fo each of our paragraphs. So you're going to have early life and we're going to do the intro sentence, some key facts and some linking sentence. We're also going to think of some sentence starters that we might use in those key facts, paragraph and those key facts, bullet points. So we've got early life, we've got leading others to freedom, and then of course the civil war. So those were our three subheadings that we used for our note taking research lesson. And we're going to use those three subheadings as the subheadings for our biography. So what I'd like you to do now is to get your page ready like this. So like you did for your introduction, get early life written down, underline it, then do intro sentence and then leave some space. Then have some bullet points with space and then a linking sentence. Okay. You need to leave space to fill it in, pause the video and do that now. So you should have had a go at a pause in the video. Now what I'd like you to do is to fill this in. Now, this is a bit tricky. So let me give you some ideas to start off with so early, life's an interest sentence that you might use with some ideas was to start you off with was Harriet Tubman was born on a slave plantation. how could you finish that sentence? Because it's our early life. We started with the very first thing, and that was when she was born. So I'd like you to add that to your plan. Now, pause the video and add in your intro sentence. Okay. So you should have your intro sentence written now. The next thing is, what I want you to think about is some of those key facts that you're going to write about in early life. So it should already be on your research paper and your research plan. What I'd like you to do now is to look at those facts. Don't just recopy them out. Cause that will be a waste of your time. You don't just need to sit and re-copy, but what I want you to think about some sentence starters and maybe some conjunctions that you could add in that you think all these might work in my writing when we get to writing. So here are some examples that I came up with. So you could do something like sadly coma by the age of six coma during this time coma and just have a thing, look at your research paper and then add in anything else that you think that might need link some ideas that you might have. Pause the video, do that now. Okay. So you should have completed your intro sentence. You should have some sentence starters and maybe some conjunctions in your three bullet points, but remember, you've got your actual information in your research plan. And now I want you to think about that linking sentence. That's probably the most tricky part of this is thinking how you're going to link it to the next paragraph. So the next prior graph that we're going to write about is leading others to freedoms. We want the sentence at the end of this paragraph that leads on to that. So here's my suggestion. So you could do something like she was tragically hurt in accident which led to her seeking a new life. And that idea of her seeking a new life would lead on to our paragraph where we, where she is looking in, searching for freedom. So you might want to use mine and that's absolutely fine. You can use that or you might have a better idea. That's also great. Just complete that linking sentence, but remember you need a sentence that ends that paragraph, but then also kind of brings you up for it to that next idea. So make sure you've got that completed. Okay. So that is our early life paragraph planned. So now let's look at leading others to freedom. So like for the other one, I'd like you to set your page up and this time have your subheading leading others to freedom, underline that had your interest sentence and bullet points and linking sentence and leave some space. Can you pause the video and get that ready now? Okay. So you should have this in front of you like this. Now I want you to think about your intro sentence for this paragraph. So what are you introducing? What is happening? Have a look at your research paper and your research that we did that we came across from last lesson. So I have got in 1849 Tubman fled to freedom. So that might be a good way to start that paragraph because now we're using a date and we're saying that she fled to freedom. That's leading us onto the information that we're going to use in this paragraph. Then for the three bullet points, have a little, think about some sentence starters that you could use. I came up with two years later at night as such bravely, cause these might be useful in our writing about her leading others to freedom and about the time of the underground railroad. So just make sure you've gotten both of those completed on your plan now. So your intro sentence and those bullet points with key information, but remember you don't need to copy out those the research, again, you just need to put those sentence starters in those bullet points just to remind you, cause then what you do in your writing, you'll have your plan. So the one that we're doing right now, you'll have your research notes next to you, and then you can write, so make sure you've got those two completed. And then let's think about the linking sentence again, that sentence that links us on to that next paragraph that's coming. And I came up with, she risked her life many times in guided hundreds of flips slaves to freedom. So she risked her life because then the next paragraph is about the civil war and she risks her life again. So I thought this would link that idea and it would make our writing flow. So you might want to use mine and that's absolutely fine. Or you might want to just tweak it or change it. Just make sure that you pause the video and that you have this section of your plan complete. There we go. Okay. So we have candidly life, we've planned leading others to freedom. So when our, we need to look at the civil war, so like the other two, can you lead us out and pause the video and get everything ready. So this time I subheading is the civil war. So we need the civil war and then we have the intro sentence. There's three bullet points might be more, might be less, but we can always adjust. And then the linking sentence, but space to writing. So do that now, please. Okay. So you should have this lay down. So thinking about intro sentence. So we finished our last paragraph saying that she risked her life. So what could our intro sentence be for this paragraph to introduce that we're going to talk about the civil war. This is what I came up with in 1861, the American Civil War broke out. We can use that idea to then continue writing about it and how she, the work that she did during the civil war. So pause the video and complete your intro sentence. Use mine if you're not sure, absolutely find that's why it's there. okay. Once you've done that. And you've got that, let's have a look at those three bullet points. So again, you don't need to just copy over your information from your research. Just let's think about some sentence starters that we can use. So despite having and there's a line there, because remember, I need to add information. I can't just, despite having coma I need to say something instead of the other thing. So despite having, in addition to, and then we could finish it off during, although what are those all examples of they're all examples of, or despite in addition, and although they're examples of. Tell me formal conjunctions. Absolutely. And that was one of the features of a biography. So already we're thinking about adding in those features in our writing. So can you make sure that you have that in your plan now? And now the last thing I want to you to do is to think about linking sentence for this. So I have got Harriet continued campaigning for the equality and justice of an African American and Women. So kind of just a wrapping up sentence, it's quite our conclusion, but it does wrap up the civil war section of our writing. So think of a linking sentence or a final sentence there for this paragraph, make sure you pause the video and you complete this part of your plan. Okay. So now you have planned early life. You've planned leading others to freedom. Have you found the civil war to fantastic job that was not easy? Well done. Okay. So now we need to plan the conclusion. What is a conclusion? Well, in a conclusion, we bring everything together. It summarises everything in the text, does not include any new facts, conclusion summarises. So what we do is we bring it all together and just finish off the writing. And that just means that the, our whole writing. So we have our introduction, our three paragraphs of our main body, and then our conclusion that all works together as one whole, we can use concluding conjunctions to start our conclusion, concluding conjunctions. Some examples of these are in summary to summarise, in conclusion to conclude, and we can use those and add those to our, to start our conclusion. So I'd like you just to put conclusion and then just to choose one or two of these conjunctions, concluding, sorry, conjunctions, that you like, and just put those onto your piece of papers that you have them ready when you write in the next lesson, Pause the video and do that now. Okay. So let's have a look at our agenda. You did a rising, warm up. You planned introduction the kind of the body of the bio biography and you've planned the conclusion. That was a huge lesson. So well done on finishing today's lesson. Congratulations, good job. And of course, make sure you talk to a parent carer at home to tell them what you did today. And I look forward to seeing you the next lesson, where we will write our actual biography, so well done, and hopefully see you soon bye.

Completed: To plan a biography

In this lesson, we will plan our biography on Harriet Tubman, who led hundreds of enslaved people to freedom. We will use our previous notes from Lesson 4 and collate them into a plan ready to write.

English

Y5 English

Key Stage 2

Year 5

To plan a biography

Inspirational figures - Biographical writing

Writing

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UNIT

To identify features of a biography

To investigate unstressed vowels in polysyllabic words

To revise the past, present and future progressive tense

To gather information on an inspirational figure

To develop a rich understanding of words associated with with being hard -working

To practise and apply knowledge of unstressed vowels in polysyllabic words, including test

To write a biography (Part 1)

To write a biography (Part 2)

To edit a biography

To plan a biography

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