Friday, March 19, 2010

Richard Peck Author Study


Our next author study is Richard Peck. We will be reading one of his books in class, but you will need to choose a different one to read at home. We will be reading A Long Way From Chicago in class. We have several of his books in class that you may borrow. You can also find all of those titles at the Springfield Public Library.


You will then need to do some kind of project to share with the class about your book. We have discussed some ideas in class, and those include writing a song about the book and performing it for the class, write a newsletter with articles related to the book, dress up as your main character to tell us about your book, act out your favorite part of the book, or just about anything else you can think of that will be a way of sharing your book with the class. Keep in mind, all of this project will be completed at home, but you can bring your book to school to read during free choice reading time. Please choose a different type of project than what you have done for past author studies.

Follow these links for even more ideas:

Teachnet.com
List of 200 ideas

Your assignment:

I need you to post a comment telling me which book you are going to read and what your project will be. You don't have to include the details, but I would like for you to have a general idea of what you would like to do.

The actual projects are due April 23rd. We will all share our projects with our classmates that day. I can't wait to see what creative ways you decide to share your reading with our class!

- Mrs. Garrett

13 comments:

  1. I will be writing a newsletter and I am reading Fair Weather.

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  2. I have not decided what I am making but I will read "Ghosts I Have Been".
    Gabbe

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  3. I am not sure what I'm going to do my project on, but my book is "The Ghost Belonged to Me".

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  4. Iam reading On the Wings of Heroes and I think that i will wright a song

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  5. I think i will make a diorama of a scene in the book. I am reading A Year Down Yonder.

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  6. I am reading "A Teacher's Grave", and I am doing a diorama.

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  7. I am reading The Dreadful Future of Blossom Culp, which is on the sam series that Harry's reading, and I am going to make a dashboard.

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  8. I'm reading Lost In Cyberspace, and I'm still thinking about what I should do. Josh

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  9. I am reading, The Teachers Funeral and probably be a report and I might do a poem about the book.

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  10. I am reading A Year Down Yonder and i dont know what i am doing formy book project.
    claire w.

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  11. I'm reading "A Year down Yonder" and i'm doing 4 models of things in my book and writing a short paragraph about each

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  12. here lies the librain \



    luke

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  13. I am reading The Teachers Funeral by richard peck. I am going to make a bill board of scenes in the book.

    Ethan C.

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