biography writing term 3 week 9

WALT communicate and inform the reader effectively

Purpose: to inform

Text type: Biography

Success Criteria (based on Kidspeak progressions)

• I use a plan to organise my writing (structure)
• I use specific words about the topic (vocabulary)
• I write a variety of sentence lengths (sentence formation)
• I support the main ideas with detail (content and ideas)
• I attempt words I don’t know by using my sound/letter knowledge (spelling)
• I use capital letters, full stops, question marks, exclamation marks, commas for lists correctly. (punctuation)

Person’s Name

Parris Goebel.

Information about this person’s childhood:

She was born in Auckland, New Zealand.  She is known as a Dancer and a Choreographer.

When she was 12, she discovered a love for hip hop music, and she made a name called polyswagg to express her style and dancing.   When she was 15 she was OFFERED, a spot in another dance crew but she DECLINED, the offer to MAKE HER OWN dance crew with help from her dad.

In 2007 Parris she got sent a lead request to the second position at the (SDNZ) which is short for the Street Dance New Zealand Nationals.  Which was also the qualifying competition for the hip hop international, world championships.

In 2008 She was a cast member in monsters of hip hop, she was also a member of the facility teachers ALL through the U.S.A.

2009 Request, debuted  their performance at the world hiphop dance  championships competition. She had won first place in the Varsity Crews division in Las Vegas.

2009 Parris Goebel placed first at the world supremacy battleground in the varsity division in Australia.

2010  She competed at the world hiphop dance championships in the ADULTS crews division and she WON.

2011 She had another request, and it was the second one outside the crews division in America. She competed on MTV’s America's best dance crews  2011 – ReQuest was the second crew outside America to compete on MTV’s America's Best Dance Crew in Season 6,  and the first crew outside North America. The crew were eliminated in Week 4 of the competition.

2011 Parris Goebel competed at the hiphop world championships as defending champion. Request placed second behind UK group plague.  Parris Goebels royal family had won 4 medals in total for NZ  with BUBBLEGUM winning GOLD in the junior crews division, Sorority winning gold in the varsity crews division, and royal family winning gold in the mega crews division.

2012 Parris was hired by Jennifer Lopez to choreograph her dance for  the world tour and also performed with Lopez on the season 11 final American idol. Parris Goebel featured in Lopez music video called Goin in, and also performed in season 15 of U.S dancing with the stars.

She owns the Palace studios which is one of the top studios in the world

2014 She won best female choreographer at the World Dance Industry awards in L.A.

 

Information about this person’s accomplishments:

She has won 4 gold medals in total for NZ with bubblegum,  she was hired by Jennifer Lopez to choreograph her.

Why is this person important:

Parris is important because she won 4 gold medals and she made a name for hip hop called polyswagg.

Here is an image of Parris Goebel, she is so cool.