Authors
Project
In the
course of this year, we have studied works by various
authors. We have read books and poems by both male and
female writers from the United States and Britain.
Because we have learned about so many different people,
it may be easy to get them mixed up. This assignment
will
help you to sort
them all out. When you finish, the authors should be
clear in your mind. Our Authors Project is divided into
three segments, the Data Search, the
Photo-Match, and the Biography. Use
the yellow worksheet and this web page to complete this
assignment.
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PART 1:
Use these links to begin your search for
the information you will need to
fill in the boxes on the
first chart on the yellow worksheet
entitled "Authors
Project."
Do
not stop at the first page that
comes up when you click on a link.
Keep looking and clicking on other links.
You may do searches of your own
if you cannot find all of the needed
information on the pages I suggest.
These are
STARTING
POINTS.
PART 2:
Who is
Who?
Use the list of authors above
to match these pictures to the names.
Use the information on your
chart to
help you make your
choices.
Write the names of the authors
in the corresponding squares
on the back of the Authors
Project worksheet.
PART 3:
Finally, choose
one
of the authors we have stuied and use information from
at least
three Internet sources to
write a 200-300
word biography of that person.
Be sure to include all of the information you collected for your
chart, and add many more facts so that your reader knows
who
your author is,
what
he wrote,
when he lived,
how
his writing affected other
people, and
why
he is an important person to study.
Please type your paper. Check and
double check your grammar, spelling, capitalization, and punctuation,
and be sure to use a variety of sentence structures. At the bottom of
your paper, make a list of the
URLs
for the sities you used as sources.
Do not
get all of your information
from one site. Instead, take notes from each site and use the data
from each to write your paper.
Miss Cothran's Personal
Page: http://buddies.org/ucsd/a_cothran
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Standards Alignment:
8th Grade Language Standards
* Conduct multiple step
information searches on the internet
* Organize and display
information on a chart
* Write a short biography
of your favorite author
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