BIOGRAPHY PART 1,2,3

 

Definition?

Biography text is a detailed description or account of a person’s life and written by someone else, it is non fiction text.

Function?

- To know a person’s story about his/her life outside of any accomplishments this person may be known for.

- To give many information easily and educate the readers.

Types?

- Short biography (focuses only on highlights of a person’s life)

- Long biography (about life and times of someone in a lot more detail)

Generic Structure?

ORIENTATION (INTRODUCTION)

It is the opening paragraph, gives the readers the background information of the person. Usually contains narrated biodata such as full name, place and date of birth.

EVENTS

In events, should be chronological order. This stage is part of the events or events experienced by the character. Contains an explanation of a story in the form of problem solving, career processes, and various events that have been experienced by the character to lead him to a success.

RE-ORIENTATION (CLOSING)

It consist of a conclusion or a comment or the writer. Tell about the achievement or the contribution of the person. In closing, this section contains the author's views on the characters being told. This reorientation is optional, so it may or may not exist.

Characteristics?

- Biography Is not written by subject and always written in third person. In other words, the biographical text is not made by the person whose life history is being told, but is told by someone else in a third person point of view. 

- The text is made based on the facts of a character's life experience containing the story or story of a character in navigating his life, whether it be in the form of strengths, problems or shortcomings written by others so that they should be exemplary. 

- use vivid language to narrate events. 

- Clear language should really be applied in a biographical text in order to avoid mistakes in the information presented.

Example Famous Person Biography

Ibnu Sina

[1] Ibn Sina (980-1037) also known as "Avicenna" in the West was a Persian (now Iran) born philosopher, scientist and doctor. He is also a prolific writer whose work is mostly on philosophy and medicine. To many, he is the "Father of Modern Medicine". His most famous work is al-Qānūn fī aṭ-Ṭibb which is a reference in the field of medicine for centuries.

[2] Ibn Sina's full name was Abū 'Alī al-Husayn bin 'Abdullāh bin Sīnā (Persian ابوعلى سينا ​​Abu Ali Sina, Arabic: لي الحسين الله بن سينا). Ibn Sina was born in 980 in Afsyahnah area near Bukhara, present-day Uzbekistan and died in June 1037 in Hamadan, Persia (Iran).

[3] He is the author of 450 books on several major subjects. Many of them focus on philosophy and medicine. George Sarton called Ibn Sina "the most famous scientist of Islam and one of the most famous in all fields, places and times". His most famous works are the Book of Healing and the Qanun on Medicine (Al-Qanun fi At Tibb).

[4] Ibn Sina was a philosopher, scientist, doctor, and active writer who was born in the golden age of Islamic Civilization. At that time, Muslim scientists translated many scientific texts from Greece, Persia and India. Greek texts from the time of Plato, thereafter until the time of Aristotle were intensively translated and developed more advanced by Islamic scientists. This development was mainly carried out by the college founded by Al-Kindi. The development of science at this time included mathematics, astronomy, algebra, trigonometry, and medicine. At the time of the Samayid dynasty in the eastern Persian region of Khurasan and the Buyid dynasty in the western part of Iran and Persian, it provided a supportive atmosphere for scientific and cultural development. During the Samanid dynasty, Bukhara and Baghdad became the cultural and scientific centers of the Islamic world.

[5] Other sciences such as the study of the Qur'an and Hadith developed with developments in an atmosphere of scientific development. Other sciences such as philosophy, Jurisprudence, Kalam are growing rapidly. At that time Al-Razi and Al-Farabi contributed knowledge in the fields of medicine and philosophy. At that time Ibn Sina had access to study in large libraries in the regions of Balkh, Khwarezmia, Gorgan, City of Ray, City of Isfahan and Hamedan. In addition to large library facilities that have a large collection of books, at that time there were also several Muslim scientists such as Abu Raihan Al-Biruni, a famous astronomer, Aruzi Samarqandi, Abu Nasr Mansur, a famous and very thorough mathematician, Abu al-Khayr Khammar, a physicist and scientist. other famous.

Example Inventor Biography 

Humphry Davy

Sir Humphry Davy was an English chemist.

[1] He was born on December 17, 1778 in Penzance, Cornwall, England, and died in Geneva on May 29, 1829.

[2] It was in 1794 when his father died, as the eldest son he was responsible for his family and apprenticed at a pharmacy in the Penzance area and began preparing for a career in medicine.

[3] His early career began when he was a professor at the Royal Institute in London (one of his most famous students was Faraday), and discovered many chemical elements between 1802-1813. In addition, he also discovered chemical compounds. In 1807, he succeeded in separating the elements potassium from sodium. Continued in the following year, namely 1808, he was able to separate between potassium, strontium, and barium through electrolysis on a mercury electrode.

[4] He was also the one who invented Davy's lamp which was safe for mining. Berzelius called Davy's 1806 Bakerian Lecture On Some Chemical Agencies of Electricity[4] "one of the finest memoirs to have enriched chemical theory."

[5] In 1820, Humphry Davy was appointed president of the Royal Society. Humphry was one of the greatest exponents of the scientific method.

5 Sample question 

1.  What is the content in the biographical text?

A. someone's description

B. characteristics of a person

C. kinds of animals

D. life experience of a character

E. identification of one's life

Kang Chol Hwan was born into a loyal family that had once lived in the large Korean community of Japan. In Kyoto, his grandfather had been supporter of Kim II Sung, North Korean’s Great Leader since 1945. In 1961 the grandfather returned with his family to North Korea and had important government post.

Within months, however, he was complaining to friends that North Korea was not the country he had expected. He was shocked to see so much poverty, which he eventually came to blame on the government’s stifl ing left for work and never returned. One morning in July 1977, when Kang was nine, his grandfather left for work and never returned.

A few weeks later, seven plain clothes security guard stormed into Kang’s house “Your grandfather betrayed the fatherland,” one of them stated” You must be punished.”

Kang’s parents and grandmother sobbed as they forced to pack their belongings into two army trucks. The family was driven off, but Kang’s mother was left behind, “spared” because her own father was regarded as a revolutationary hero. That was the last Kang ever saw her.

2. What was a reason for Kang’s grandfather never returned to Kang’s house?

A. A supporter of Kim II Sung

B. Accused of betraying North Korea

C. Regarded as a hero

D. As an important person in Korea

E. Force Kang’s family to leave their homeland

3. What is mainly discussed in the last paragraph?

A. The last minutes Kang gathered together with his mother

B. The day Kang ever saw his grandma and grandpa

C. The moment Kang’s father was regarded as a hero

D. The last day Kang’s parents and his grandma sobbed

E. The sad moment when Kang’s parents meet grandma

4. Why did Kang’s grandfather disappear?

A. He left for work and went somewhere else

B. He returned to North Korea

C. He was supporter of Kim II Sung

D. He went to the government’s office

E. He was kidnapped and punished by the security guards

5. A few weeks later, seven plain clothes security guards stormed into Kang’s house.

The underlined word has the same meaning as ....

A. Destroyed

B. Attacked

C. Knocked

D. Involved

E. Knotted