Difference between biography and autobiography with example

Watch this video in which teacher Mr McPartlin explains the differences. Listen carefully and join in with the activities. What are the differences between biographies and autobiographies? Watch this Teacher Talk to find out. The first clip is written as a biography of activist Rosa Parks and the second clip is written as if it were an autobiography.

Examples of biography and autobiography

Can you spot the differences? We use buses every day to go to school or into town. It's not unusual, but this story is about a bus journey that changed millions of lives. There, when a woman called Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat, a bus journey became very important. Rosa's refusal was a protest about racism against black people.

This meant people of different skin colours had different schools, restaurants, even toilets. One day, Rosa was in a seat for black people, but white people's seats were full. The bus driver wanted Rosa to give her seat to a white person, but Rosa said no! Rosa was a member of a civil rights group which fought for black and white people to be treated the same.

Rosa didn't fight alone, people organised a bus boycott, which meant they stopped using buses for a year. They walked instead. This bus company lost a lot of money.