Michelangelo for Kids: His Life and Ideas

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Michelangelo for Kids: His Life and Ideas — page 1 — Note to Readers W hat if someone wanted to write a biography about you without ever talk ing to you Maybe they have some of your e-mails have seen you a few times and can read what you post on social media They might even be able talk to someone who knows you Do you think their biography will be accurate It might come very close to the truth but it will always be incomplete Writing a biography with insufficient information represents a great challenge for an author This is always the case in varying degrees when authors write about someone who is now dead especially if this person lived many cen turies ago Authors read letters written by or to the person direct correspondence or about the person indirect correspondence and look for any other documents they can ﬁnd birth marriage and death certiﬁcates wills bank statements and even shopping lists They also read about the times and loca tions in which their subject lived and study biographies of other people who lived in simi lar historical and socioeconomic conditions Then they try to put all the pieces of the puzzle together Of course authors base much of their work on the writings of other biographers especially those who lived at the same time or just after their subject They look at how other biogra phers interpreted the same information and compare their conclusions keeping in mind that biographies become less reliable as we go back in time because fairness and accuracy have not always been as important as they are today The same challenges face those who want to study Michelangelo’s life His early life was not well documented even though two of his biographies were written while he was still alive something extremely unusual at that time One of these biographies was authored vi

Michelangelo for Kids: His Life and Ideas

Michelangelo for Kids: His Life and Ideas

Michelangelo for Kids offers an in-depth look at his life, ideas, and accomplishments

About This Book

By: Simonetta Carr

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Published by: Chicago Review Press with IPG

9-12Age Range

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138Pages

PeopleSubject

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2-3 hoursReading Time

-Guided Reading

-Fountas & Pinnell

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