Biography Part 2

Name : Hanifah Az Zahra

Class : XII IPS 2

1.       Type of Biography

Short and simple biography

A biography that focuses on the important things in a person's life.

Long biography

A biography talks about a person's life and times in more detail. It is also called an official biography. This is a biography written with the permission, cooperation and sometimes participation of the subject

Autobiography

A biography written by the author himself.

2.       Characteristics of Biography

Biography is not written by subject and always written in the third person

Based on research

Describes the person’s surroundings (where, when and how the person lived)

Use vivid language to narrate events

3.       Generic Structure

Orientation (Introduction) : It is the opening paragraph, gives the readers the background information of the person. Usually contains narrated biodata such as full name, place, date of birth and other general information

Events : In events, should be in chronological order. This stage is part of the events or events experienced by the character. Contains an explanation of a story in the form of problem solving, career processes, and various events that have been experienced by the characters

Re-Orientation (Closing) : It consists of a conclusion or comment or the writer. Tell about the achievement or the contribution of the person.  This section contains the author's view of the characters told. In the reorientation section, the author can give his personal view about the characters being told

4.       Grammar and Language Features

Simple Past Tense : A simple form of an event that happened in the past. Use the second form of the verb (verb 2)

Temporal Sequence (Time Sequenced) and Temporal Conjunction

Focus on Specific Partisipants

Use Action Verb : Explain something that the character is actively doing by using some verbs in V2 or Past Form

Activity 3

1.       Write an INVENTOR BIOGRAPHY, minimal 4 paragraph and attach picture in each paragraph and publish it in your blog

Nikola Tesla

    Nikola Tesla was a Serbian-American who was an inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, and futurist best known for his contributions to the modern design of alternating current (AC) power supply systems. He was born on July 10, 1856 to be precise in Smiljan, Croatia. He is the son of a priest of the Eastern Orthodox Church named Milutin Tesla. Tesla was the fourth of five children.

(Gospic)

    In 1892, Tesla and his family moved to Gospic, where his father worked as a priest, he also completed his primary and secondary education there. In 1870, Tesla moved to Karlovac to attend secondary school at the Higher Real Gymnasium, where he stated that he was attracted by the demonstration of electricity by his physics professor, because of his intelligence, he managed to complete 4 years of study with only 3 years in 1873.

(Mark Twain)

    In 1873, Tesla returned to Smiljan and he contracted cholera. In 1874, Tesla avoided being drafted into the Austro-Hungarian army in Smiljan, by fleeing to Tomingaj. He read many books during his time at Tomingaj, and later said that the books by Mark Twain had helped him miraculously recover from his previous illness.

(Austrian Polytechnic)

    In 1875, Tesla enrolled at the Austrian Polytechnic in Graz, Austria, through a Military Frontier scholarship. During his freshman year, Tesla never missed a class, earned top marks, passed nine exams and earned first place.

(Milutin Tesla)

        In December 1878, Tesla left Graz and cut ties with his family to hide the fact that he had dropped out of school. There he worked as a draftsman and spent his spare time playing cards. In March 1979, Milutin followed his son to Slovakia to ask his son back but was refused by Tesla and Tesla was also experiencing a nervous breakdown. On March 24, 1879, Tesla was repatriated to Gospic for not having a residence permit. On April 17, 1879, his father died of a stroke at the age of 60. And during 1879, Tesla taught at his old school at Gospic.

    After his father's death in 1879, Tesla found a package of letters from the professor to his father, warning that unless he was expelled from school, Tesla would die from overwork. At the end of his sophomore year, Tesla lost his scholarship and became addicted to gambling. During his third year with his tuition and pocket money he managed to recover his family's losses. However, in the United States, he is known to enjoy playing billiards and when the exam arrives he is not ready to face it

(Budapest Telephone Exchange)

        Nikola Tesla graduated from the University of Prague. In 1881, Tesla moved to Budapest to work on the Budapest Telephone Exchange. Tesla was allocated to the main electric position and made many improvements but was not patented.

    In USA, Nikola Tesla worked at a company owned by Thomas Edison. Precisely in 1884, he officially worked in Edison's office engaged in the DC electricity industry. These two scientists immediately went to work developing many innovations. These innovations are mostly Edison's inventions. Unfortunately, their cooperation did not last long. Due to differences of opinion, Nikola Tesla decided to stop working with Edison. The business-focused Edison didn't match Tesla's mindset.

(Tesla Electric Company)

        In late 1886 Tesla met Alfred S. Brown. Based on Tesla's patents and other ideas they agreed to return to him financially and deal with his patents. In April 1887 they formed the Tesla Electric Company with a favorable agreement that the resulting patents would go to 1/3 Tesla, 1/3 to Peck and Brown, and 1/3 to finance development. They set up a laboratory for Tesla at 89 Liberty Street in Manhattan.

        One of the things that Tesla developed in the laboratory in 1887 was the induction motor that was running at this time. This innovative electric motor, patented in May 1888. In 1888, the magazine editor of the Electrical World, Thomas Commerford Martin, wanted Tesla to demonstrate his alternating current system, including his induction motor, at the American Institute of Electrical Engineers (now IEEE).

        Tesla's patents and theoretical work formed the basis of modern alternating current electric power, which he announced in the Second Industrial Revolution. Other patents include remote controls, radios, and high-voltage transformers.

(Tesla's Labolatory)

        Tesla was renowned for his achievements and showmanship, eventually some Americans referred to him as a "mad scientist." The patent rights earned him large sums of money, much of which was used to finance his own projects with varying degrees of success. But he went bankrupt in 1917 after his laboratory caught fire in 1895 which made many records of his inventions burned

        He died on January 7, 1943. His work was forgotten, relatively unknown after his death, but in 1960 the General Conference on Weights and Measures named the SI unit of magnetic flux density tesla was adopted in his honor. Tesla's legacy has seen a resurgence of interest in popular culture since the 1990s.

2.       Record a video you read the paragraph in a good pronunciation creatively and publish in your you tube channel. attach the video in your blog