1. Nonfiction
What’s your story?

2. Composition Assignment
How have you changed over the past two years? How would your friends or family members say you are different today than you were two years ago?

3. What is nonfiction?
Nonfiction is prose writing that presents and explains ideas or tells about real people.

4. Forms of Nonfiction Essays Newspapers (Informational text)
Magazine Articles (Informational text)
Journals
Travelogues
Biographies
Autobiographies

5. Autobiography vs. Biography
Autobiography is a form of nonfiction in which a person relates his or her own life story.
You write your autobiography.
I Account
Biography is a form of nonfiction in which a writer tells the life story of another person.
You write the biography of someone else.
He or she account of a person’s life

6. Essay
An essay is a short nonfiction work about a particular subject. It presents a main idea and supports it with examples, facts, statistics or anecdotes.
Narrative Essay- Tells a true story
Expository Essay- Gives information, discusses ideas, or explains a process
Persuasive Essay- tries to convince readers to do or accept a point of view
Reflective Essay- Includes the writer’s reflections or thoughts on a topic of personal importance

7. Informational Text
Informational text is writing that provides the knowledge to guide and educate you.

8. Quiz
1. What is the title of this Power Point?
2. _______________ is prose writing that presents and explains ideas or tells about real people.
3. Essays, biographies, magazines and travelogues are forms of ____________.
4. What is the difference between a biography and an autobiography?
5. List two types of essays.
6. What is informational text?