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Learning with Biographies. Objectives, Opportunities and Limitations of Educational Work with Life Stories and Biographical Fragments about Former Victims of Nazi Persecution

Ingolf Seidel is Project Manager and Editor of the online magazine "Learning from History".

By Ingolf Seidel 

Learning with biographies is essentially about using life stories to approach the events of a specific historical epoch from a subjective perspective. In the context of National Socialism, it is usually understood to mean learning based on individual histories of persecution suffered by survivors of the German policy of extermination. The focus is on the testimony of survivors of National Socialism - “contemporary witnesses” is the vague term often used to describe them today. Biographical learning in connection with perpetrators, bystanders, or people who have been incriminated by others etc. plays at best a marginal role in this canon. 

Contemporary witnesses and historical learning 

As the concept of contemporary witnesses is closely connected with question

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Autobiography vs. Biography vs. Memoir

The three primary formats of a memory book, used to tell a life story, are a biography, an autobiography, and a memoir. Distinguishing between the three can feel a bit confusing since they all share several similarities. But there are some distinct differences.

Simply put, a biography is the life history of an individual, written by someone else. An autobiography is the story of a person’s life, written by that person. And a memoir is a collection of memories written by the person themselves.

 

What is a Biography?

A biography, also called a bio, is a non-fiction piece of work giving an objective account of a person’s life. The main difference between a biography vs. an autobiography is that the author of a biography is not the subject. A biography could be someone still living today, or it could be the subject of a person who lived years ago.

Biographies include details of key events that shaped the subject’s life, and information about their birthplace, education, work, and relationships. Biographers u

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Biography Presentation Lesson Plan: Objectives

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This lesson plan provides instructions for students to create a biography presentation using PowerPoint. Students will research a famous person and create a 4-5 slide presentation with information about their subject's early life, important accomplishments, and interesting facts. The presentation should include images and details answered from provided questions. Classmates will then watch and evaluate each presentation using an evaluation grid to rate fluency, grammar, pronunciation, information, and PowerPoint layout.

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This lesson plan provides instructions for students to create a biography presentation using PowerPoint. Students will research a famous person and create a 4-5 slide presentation with information about their subject's early life, important accomplishments, and interesting facts. The

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