Content Pathfinder #2
Authors Are People, Too
GENERAL INFORMATION
Name:Roberta G. Ludt
School:
Workshop Location:
Kent State-Main Campus
Title of Companion
Action Plan:Authors Biographies
Grade Levels: 9-11
Curriculum/Subject Area:
English/Language Arts, Reading
Specific Topic:
Biography information of young adult authors and analysis of their products
including reviews and editorials.
CONTENT INFORMATION
Brief Summary of the
Topic/Pathfinder: Students will create a brief catalog type product using
Microsoft Publisher discussing the life of an author they choose from the list
created. Students will have 5-8 school periods to complete the final product.
They may work on their own computer if the technology is available at their home
or at the area public library. The main focus is to learn about an author that
may interest the individual and to see what other readers may think of this
author’s work.
CONTENT CATEGORIES
Reference Books
African American
Women Writers by Brenda Wilkinson NY: John Wiley & Sons, 2000.
Black American Women
Fiction Writers Harold Bloom, ed. NY:
Famous Modern
American Women Writers by Jane Muir SI:Dodd, 1959.
Writers on Writing:
Collected Essays from NY Times NY:Times
Books, 2001.
Black Writers by
Linda
American Horror
Writers by
Women Who Write
Volume II by Lucinda Irwin Smith NY:Julian Messner, 1994.
Great Women Writers
Frank N. McGill,ed. NY:Henry Holt & Co.,1994.
Contemporary Authors,
permanent series: a bio-bibliographical guide to current authors & their
works Claire D. Kinsman,ed.
Hispanic Writers: a
selection of sketches from Contemporary Authors Bryan Ryan,ed.
Cyclopedia of World
Authors Frank N. McGill,ed.
Famous American
Authors by Sarah K. Bolton SI:Crowell & Co., 1978.
Famous Authors for
Young People by Ramon P. Coffman SI:Dodd, 1943.
Websites
http://www.lesley.edu/library/guides/research/literature_children.html
http://www.writingconference.com/authorsonline.htm
http://dir.yahoo.com/Arts/Humanities/Literature/Authors/Children_s/
http://www.lee-county.com/library/readfest/2004/2004_Authors_YA.htm
http://www.chambersburg.k12.pa.us/curric/lib/library/web%20resources/yalit.htm
http://www.bookbrowse.com/index.cfm?page=browse&browseBy=category&categoryID=40
http://www.yabookscentral.com/cfusion/index.cfm?fuseAction=authors.bios
http://lehs.lapeer.org/library/booklovers.html
http://www.infopeople.org/bpl/kids/cdsklit.html
http://www.catharton.com/authorsindex.htm
http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/authors.html
Periodicals
Horn Book
Library Media
Collection
School Library
Journal
Voice of Youth
Advocate
Media
Audiobook
Stephen King-On
Writing—He is reading his autobiograhy.
VHS
Great Writers: Jack
London, 2001.
Michael Crichton
Collection, 1997.
Profile of a
Writer:Toni Morrison, 1987.
Spirit to
Spirit:Nikki Giovanni, 1987.
Voices&
Visions:Langston Hughes, 1999.
Authors Are People Too! Project
Directions: Use the internet and/or print
materials in the library to find the following information.
You
are creating a booklet using Microsoft Publisher consisting of 8 total pages.
1. Page 1 or cover. Pick an author from the list, whose birthday
is the same month as yours.
2. Page 2 & 3. Write a one-page biography on the author you
chose. True Type Font 12-Double spaced
3. Page 4.
Choose a book written by that author.
4.Page 5. Find a summary/description of the
book include all product details(copy cover if possible).
5.Page 6.
Find a reader review of this book and print it.
6.Page 7.
Find a professional or editorial review of the book include who gave
this review and print it.
7.Back cover-Page 8. Include all of your info(
name, birth date, teacher’s name/period, and current date).
You may be as creative with decorating as you
wish.
At the end of each school day you are working on
this project save your work in your folder in the H:/ drive. If you wish to
also save it on a floppy and work on it at home that is permitted but you are
reminded that you MUST use Microsoft Publisher 98 or earlier.
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January |
February |
March |
April |
May |
June |
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Jack London |
Alice Walker |
Dr. Seuss |
Maya Angelou |
Frank L. Baum |
Nikki Giovanni |
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Lewis Carroll |
Toni Morrison |
Patricia MacLachlan |
Gary Soto |
Arthur Conan Doyle |
Harriet Beecher Stowe |
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J. D. Salinger |
Jacqueline Woodson |
Virginia Hamilton |
Paula Fox |
Margaret Wise Brown |
George Orwell |
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Julius Lester |
Langston Hughes |
Lois Lowry |
William Shakespeare |
Rachel Carson |
Helen Keller |
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Francesca Lia Block |
Cynthia Voigt |
Robert Frost |
Lois Duncan |
Walt Whitman |
Anne Frank |
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Dav Pilkey |
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Christopher Paul Curtis |
Cynthia Rylant |
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Angela Johnson |
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July |
August |
September |
October |
November |
December |
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Nathaniel Hawthorne |
James Baldwin |
Richard Wright |
Anne Rice |
Bram Stoker |
Mary Higgins Clark |
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J. K. Rowling |
Walter Dean Myers |
Agatha Christie |
E.E. Cummings |
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. |
Nicholas Sparks |
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Chris Crutcher |
Will |
Roald Dahl |
Arthur Miller |
Carlo Collodi |
Mercer Mayer |
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Pablo Neruda |
Ray Bradbury |
H. G. Wells |
Terry McMillan |
P. D. Eastman |
Avi |
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Aldous Huxley |
Mary W. Shelley |
Stephen King |
Michael Crichton |
Mark Twain |
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T. S. Eliot |
Sylvia Plath |
Crescent Dragonwagon |
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Oscar Wilde |
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