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Author Research Assignment

Author Research Assignment. Grade 5 - Language Arts Sept. 25, 2001. Sample - J.K. Rowling. World renowned author of the “Harry Potter” series of books. Single mother of one child - her daughter. Sample - J.K. Rowling.

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Author Research Assignment

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  1. Author Research Assignment Grade 5 - Language Arts Sept. 25, 2001

  2. Sample - J.K. Rowling • World renowned author of the “Harry Potter” series of books. • Single mother of one child - her daughter.

  3. Sample - J.K. Rowling • July 1965 Joanne Kathleen Rowling is born at Chipping Sodbury General Hospital in Gloucestershire. • 1971 Rowling, age six, writes first story, about a rabbit who gets the measles. The family moves from Yate to Winterbourne, near Bristol, where Rowling, nine, and her younger sister, Di, play with a gang of children in their street, including a brother and sister named POTTER.

  4. Sample - J.K. Rowling • 1983 Goes to University of Exeter to study French and classics. Starts collecting odd names in earnest. • 1990 On a delayed train journey from Manchester to KING'S CROSS in London, Harry Potter the character strides "fully formed" into her head, and she starts to create the whole world of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry around him. Unfortunately, she has no pen or paper, so she commits it all to memory.

  5. Sample - J.K. Rowling • 1993 Gives birth to daughter, Jessica, named after Rowling's idol, author and activist Jessica Mitford. Christmas 1993: Divorces; returns to Britain with baby Jessica; heads for Edinburgh, Scotland, where sister Di lives, carrying half a suitcase of Harry Potter stories. • 1995 Finishes writing book and types manuscript on old #40 ($63) typewriter. Can't afford to photocopy the manuscript, so types it out all over again. Goes to library and looks up the names of agents and publishers. Sends manuscript to two agents and one publisher.

  6. Sample - J.K. Rowling • June 1997 Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone is published in Britain.

  7. Bibliography • http://www.kidsreads.com/HarryPotter/jkrowling.html • http://www.bookmagazine.com/may2000/timeline.html

  8. Assignment Outline • You are required to choose an author that you enjoy reading. • Then check the library to see what else that author has written. • Look to see if you can find any biographical information about the author on the back covers of any of the novels. • Use classroom resources to create a short presentation about your author for the class.

  9. Assignment Outline • Presentations could take the form of: • Informative Poster. • Oral re-telling of the information found. • PowerPoint Presentation. • Brochure about the author.

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