Write The Biography Of A Friend Or Relative (9-13 years)

Distinguish a closed interview question from an open one and write six questions of their own

Record an interview's content under set headings rather than as continuous notes

Write a biography in the third person and past tense, as non-fiction rather than as a story

The unit runs in a fixed order - questions, chart, draft, then a worked example - so the example on page 6 arrives after students have already tried the chart for themselves, which suits a review rather than a model

The sample questions assume the interviewee is an adult with a work history, so a student choosing a friend rather than a relative will need to rewrite several of them

The planning chart and the family-history chart differ by one row: the second replaces Quotes from the interview with a Died field, which is worth flagging before a student uses it for a living relative

Question design - students see closed and open questions separated and explained, then write six of their own with the question mark already printed at the end of each line.

Structured note-taking - the eight-row chart forces an interview into fixed fields rather than a running record, including a row reserved for direct quotations.

Biographical writing conventions - the style panel specifies non-fiction register, third person and past tense, and offers reported and direct speech with a worked sentence of each.