a non-fiction text written about someone’s life

the effect created by choosing serious, factual language

the 'he/she/it/they' perspective, where we talk about another person

a type of subordinate clause starting with a relative pronoun (such as who, which or whose)

Identifying features of a biography in preparation for writing about Darwin

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Researching Charles Darwin's life

Researching Charles Darwin's theory of evolution

Planning a biography about Charles Darwin's life and theory of evolution

Writing the first half of a biography about Darwin and his theory of evolution

Writing the second half of a biography about Darwin and his theory of evolution

Presenting information about evolution

In this unit, pupils write a biography based on research about a scientific theory of a famous scientist. In 'Climate Emergency: Journalistic Report Writing', pupils will use a scientific, environmental speech to write a journalistic report from.

In 'Harriet Tubman: Biographical Writing', pupils learnt to research an inspirational figure's life to write a celebratory biography. In this unit, pupils will write a biography based on research about a scientific theory of a famous scientist.

In this unit, pupils research Charles Darwin's life and evolution theory in order to write a biography. The biography is written chronologically, from his early life to university, his trip to the Galapagos and his theory of evolution. Finally, pupils present information about evolution to a group.

Charles Darwin: biographical writing

a non-fiction text written about someone's life

a central idea that the writer intends the audience to engage deeply with

a visual representation of a series of events, where pictures represent events

differences between individuals in a particular species

theory that organisms with characteristics beneficial for living in a particular environment will pass on these characteristics to offspring

the process by which living things change and develop over millions of years.

ideas recorded without using complete sentences

vocabulary we use when writing about a particular subject

language structures that develop text cohesion

extra information added into a sentence that can be removed

a feature of an animal or plant that allows it to function well in its normal habitat

a sentence starter that tells the reader the cause and effect of something

when we are saying our work out loud to an audience

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