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- Grade Range
- 6th - 8th
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Students design, write, and publish an original magazine featuring a researched author. They read a novel from the same author. Students determine the organizational structures and patterns in various pieces of literature. They describe the author's style. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 3rd - 5th
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Students research an author by reading what the author has written, interviewing the author, analyzing story elements, and presenting book talks for books they have read by the author. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 3rd - 5th
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Students are required to research the life of one students's author. They read at least two books by that author. Students create a PowerPoint using their research of the author's childhood, education, goals, awards, and current information. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- Kindergarten - 2nd
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Students recognize authority figures in home, school, and community. They explain how authority figures enforce the rules for their protection. They list authority figures and explain how they enforce the rules. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 1st
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Students read a number of books by a specified author identifying and comparing story elements. They complete activities associated with a different author's books each week. They follow recipes, make slideshows, make graphs, and study the authors using bookmarked Internet sites. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 6th - 8th
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Students read two chapter books by the same author and research the author. They compare and contrast the characters, setting, genre, and themes of the two books using graphic organizers, and create a computer slideshow presentation or brochure about the author and the two books. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- Kindergarten - 2nd
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Students read and compare and contrast a variety of books by their favorite authors. They sort books from various authors and identify themes and patterns in writing and drawings. They also create their own book in the style of their favorite author. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 7th
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Students conduct research about their favorite authors in order to help put together a class bulletin board to display the work. The teacher serves as resource to help students pick the right resources and organize the work for final drafts for assessment. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 2nd
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Students in a 2nd grade classroom review "self control" and begin a lesson on "accepting authority." They discuss people who have authority over them and review what they should do in a variety of scenarios where they will be required to accept the authority of others. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 10th - 11th
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Students obtain information about Alabama authors from This Goodly Land. They summarize events that happened in an author's life and organize them to display on a timeline. In addition, they write a report about the author. Full Review »

