News from Room 107

It’s Research Paper Time – (insert groan here).  We are spending the week in the media center researching an author, creating an outline, and writing a paper with citations.  At this point in the process, you should have completed and turned in your notes and three sources, as well as typed a title page, and started your outline.  Today, we will finish outlines.  Tomorrow and Friday, you will work on writing and typing your paper, and creating your works cited page.  All papers are due Tuesday, but can be turned in before that date. 

Don’t forget to continue reading To Kill a Mockingbird.  We left off on Chapter 19 in class last Thursday.  You are to read chapters 20-23 by Monday, April 16th.  We’ll  pick up with the book next week in class, followed by the movie.

 

Charge…

Alas (big sigh) – spring break is almost over.  Let’s charge into the last 7 1/2 weeks of school with gusto!  English Classes will be finishing To Kill a Mockingbird over the next few weeks, as well as starting work on our research projects.  Projects will be on an author – Below is a list of authors from which to choose – within each class, you may not repeat an author.  First come, first serve – there are a variety of modern, young adult, children’s, and classic authors from which to choose.  You will be researching the person’s life, the influences on that person, their writing, historical influences, etc.  I will distribute a packet this week, and you will go to the media center for a total of 7 days.  All work can be completed within this time if you use it wisely.  The deadline for this project will be April 18th.  I will provide a rubric – each step in the process will be worth a certain number of points.  This is an opportunity to improve your grade…if you complete the project!!

Julia Alvarez, Maya Angelou, Ace Atkins, Jane Austen, Ray Bradbury, Charlotte & Emily Bronte, Truman Capote, Sandra Cisneros, Suzanne Collins, Pat Conroy, Robert Cormier, Roald Dahl, Sarah Dessen, Kate DiCamillo, Charles Dickens, Sharon Draper, Emily Dickinson, Jeanne DuPrau, Ralph Ellison, William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Robert Frost, Ernest Gaines, Nikki Giovanni, John Grisham, Ernest Hemingway, Carl Hiaasen, S.E. Hinton, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, T. D. Jakes, Stephen King, Rudyard Kipling, Madeline L’Engle, Harper Lee, C.S. Lewis, Stephanie Meyer, Arthur Miller, Margaret Mitchell, Walter Dean Myers, Edgar Allan Poe, O’Henry, Jody Picoult, James Patterson, Gary Paulson, Tyler Perry, Rick Riordan, J.K. Rowling, Louis Sachar, Theodore Seisel, Mary Shelley, William Shakespeare, Nicolas Sparks, Jerry Spinelli, John Steinbeck, R.L. Stine, J.R.R. Tolkien, Jules Verne, Alice Walker, Eudora Welty, Scott Westerfield, Walt Whitman, Tennessee Williams, Laura Ingalls Wilder. Richard Wright, Paul Zindel