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MATERI PEMBELAJARAN

BIOGRAPHY

A life story written by

someone
BiographY Biography is an account of
someone’s life written by
someone else. The word
biography comes from
Medieval Greek, from
A short biography focuses only Bios=life and
on highlights of a person’s life fraphia=writing=bigraphy.

Biography can few words

long or they can fill an
A long biograhy talks about life entire book or two.
and times of someone in a lot
more detail.
Biography analyze and
interpret the events in a
person’s life. They try to
find connections and
  explain the meaning of
unexpected actions or
mysteries.

The Structure of the text

1.       The opening paragraph gives the reader the background information as to why this
person is important and should have a biography written about them. The opening
paragraph should briefly answer the questions: who, what, where, when and how.
2.     The recount then unfolds in paragraphs that retell a series of events, usually told in
chronological order.

3.       The final paragraph is a conclusion with a comment on the contribution this person has
made or a summary and evaluation of the person's achievements.

The Language Features of a Biographical Recount

1.       Use of names of specific people.

2.       Mainly written in simple past tense (the final paragraph could also include the present
tense).

3.   Use of connectives to do with time (last year, then, at the same time, next, on Tuesday 24
May, later, before, meanwhile).

4.     Use of action verbs (painted, wrote, invented, discovered).

Mark Zuckerberg

Born on May 14, 1984, in White Plains, New York, Mark Zuckerberg co-founded the social-networking website
Facebook out of his college dorm room. He left Harvard after his sophomore year to concentrate on the site, the
user base of which has grown to more than 2 billion people, making Zuckerberg a billionaire. 

Zuckerberg developed an interest in computers at an early age; when he was about 12, he used Atari BASIC to
create a messaging program he named "Zucknet." After graduating from Exeter in 2002, Zuckerberg enrolled at
Harvard University. By his sophomore year at the ivy league institution, he had developed a reputation as the
go-to software developer on campus. It was at that time that he built a program called Course Match, which
helped students choose their classes based on the course selections of other users. He also invented Face mash,
which compared the pictures of two students on campus and allowed users to vote on which one was more
attractive. 

Zuckerberg and his friends created a site that allowed users to create their own profiles, upload photos, and
communicate with other users. The group ran the site—first called The Facebook—out of a dorm room at
Harvard until June 2004. After his sophomore year, Zuckerberg dropped out of college to devote himself to
Facebook full time, moving the company to Palo Alto, California. By the end of 2004, Facebook had 1 million
users. 

Zuckerberg made two major life changes in May 2012. Facebook had its initial public offering, which raised
$16 billion, making it the biggest internet IPO in history. After enduring criticism for the proliferation of fake
news posts on his site leading up to the 2016 U.S. presidential election, Zuckerberg in early 2018 announced his
personal challenge to develop improved methods for defending Facebook users from abuse and interference by
nation-states. 

However, Zuckerberg came under fire again a few months later when it was revealed that Cambridge Analytica,
a data firm with ties to President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign, had used private information from
approximately 87 million Facebook profiles without the social network alerting its owners. The resulting outcry
seemed to shake investors' confidence in Facebook, its shares dropping by 15 percent after the news became
public. 
Following a few days' silence, Zuckerberg surfaced on various outlets to explain how the company was taking
steps to limit third-party developers' access to user information, and said he would be happy to testify before
Congress. On Sunday, March 25, Facebook took out full-page ads in seven British and three American
newpapers, penned in the form of a personal apology from Zuckerberg.
(Adapted from https://www.biography.com/people/mark-zuckerberg-507402)