Author+Study

Ms. Kieran's 8th Grade Author Study

 To create a lifelong love of reading, Ms. Kieran's 8th Grade Language Arts classes were asked to immerse themselves in the reading of one author throught the school year . Throughout the year, students returned various parts of the assignment, but the last portion was to review the books and share their opinion of the authors for students who would later participate in this project.

 In collaboration with Ms. Keller, the librarian, students learned some of the basics of CyberSafety and then posted their reviews onto our library wiki.

||=  ||=   || [|English Language Arts Standards] E1a, E1b, E2b, E3a, E3b, E4a, E4b, E5a, E5b
 * = Sample Author ||= Todd Strasser
 * = Meg Cabot ||= Sarah Dessen ||= Sharon M. Draper ||= Virginia Hamilton ||
 * = Margaret Peterson Haddix ||= S.E Hinton ||= Will Hobbs ||= Richard Peck ||
 * = Alex Flinn ||= Jacqueline Woodson ||= Jerry Spinelli ||= Judy Blume ||
 * = Gail Giles ||= Anthony Horowitz ||= Sonya Sones ||= Gail Giles 2 ||
 * = Joan Lowery Nixon ||= Vivian Vande Velde ||=  ||= Scott Westerfeld ||

[|Common Core Standards]: __Reading Standards for Information Texts__ 2. Determine central ideas or themes of a text and analyze their development; summarize the key supporting details and ideas. 9. Analyze how two or more texts address similar themes or topics in order to build knowledge or to compare the approaches the authors take. 10. Read and comprehend complex literary and informational texts independently and proficiently. __Writing Standards:__ 1. Write arguments to support claims in an analysis of substantive topics or texts, using valid reasoning and relevant and sufficient evidence.
 * Grade 8: Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text, including its relationship to the characters, setting, and plot; provide an objective summary of the text.
 * Grade 8: Analyze how a modern work of fiction draws on themes, patterns of events, or character types from myths, traditional stories, or religious works such as the Bible, including describing how the material is rendered new.
 * Grade 8: By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems, at the high end of grades 6–8 text complexity band independently and proficiently.