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Class 3L
Spring
Book Report Directions
The Biography Book
Report
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Choose a Book – A Biography
Date
By Friday, April 4, 2008
Choose a
chapter book that tells a story of a person who really lived. It needs to be a
chapter book. It can be a biography (written by someone else) or it can be an
autobiography (written by the person himself of herself.) These are found in
the non-fiction section of libraries. There are many biographies and
autobiographies at your reading level in our classroom, as well.
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Read Dates: all of
April, unless you have already begun. All of Spring Break and during ITBS
Testing Week, also.
Read this
book whenever you can. Read it at home and at school. Try to keep it in your
backpack when you aren’t reading it so you can always find it at home and at
school. Finish reading soon enough to give you at least one week to complete
your reporting on the book.
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Write a Written Book Review:
Due Date: Friday, May 2
Use the
attached guide to help you write about this book. This review needs to be
written at least once in your own handwriting. If you would like to type a final
copy, or have someone type it for you, then attach the rough copy in your own
handwriting. The rough copy should show editing symbols ( like ¶ for “new
paragraph” or crossing out words that should be left out. or
Ú
when you want to
insert a new word.)
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Tell us about the Author
Due Date: Friday, May 2,
2008
Use the
attached form to tell us what you noticed and enjoyed about the writing of this
author. Look hard at the author’s style – find something special! This time you
will choose one of the 6 Traits of Good Writing that your writer used.
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Plan and Complete a Project
Due Date:
May 2, 2008
Create
one of the following about the person you have read about:
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A puppet of
this person (use a wooden spoon, a ruler, a paper bag, a sock, and your
imagination!)
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A model of a
place this person lived or experienced (build with Legos, toothpicks, popsicle
sticks, cardboard, boxes, clay, papier mache.....)
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A board game
that teaches us about this person’s life (a card game, a matching game, a memory
game, a trivia game, a board game....)
Biographies to check out from 3L
(sign
these out from Mrs. Larsen.)
Our school library has an extensive
collection of biographies, also.
3rd Grade
Reading Level:
Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom
The Adventures of George Washington
George Washington’s Breakfast
(might need to do extra
research)
George Washington Wasn’t Always Old
Abraham Lincoln: For the People
Patrick Henry: voice of the American Revolution
Jim Thorpe: Young Athlete
Young Albert Einstein
Davy Crockett: Young Pioneer
Thomas Jeffereson: A Picture Book Biography (challenging
enough)
26 Fairmount Avenue by Tomie DePaola (an autobiography)
The Wizard of Menlo Park: The Story of Thomas Alva Edison, Inventor
Tad Lincoln
Lou Gehrig: Iron Man of Baseball
Meet John F. Kennedy
The Story of Saint Andrew
Saint Francis of Assissi
and Francis: The
Knight of
Assisi
(need
to read both)
Higher Reading Level:
Betsy Ross: Designer of Our Flag
The Great Little Madison
The Story of Amelia Earhart: Lost Star
Jim Abbott: Against All Odds
Thomas A. Edison: Young Inventor
Can’t You Make Them Behave, King Georg?
Bill Clinton: Our 42nd President
Bully for You, Teddy Roosevelt!
What Was It Like? Paul Revere
The Story of Benjamin Franklin, Amazing American
Will You Sign Here, John Hancock?
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Here are are websites which offer rock and mineral field guides, photographs,
illustrations, and identification tips. These can be found on our
classroom web page so that you can just click on the sites you wish to explore
(with parent permission, of course!)
http://www.rocksforkids.com/RFK/TableofContents.html
http://www.rocksforkids.com/RFK/Rocks&Minerals.html
http://www.fossweb.com/modules3-6/EarthMaterials/index.html
http://www.fi.edu/fellows/fellow1/oct98/create/index.html
http://www.fi.edu/fellows/fellow1/oct98/expert/index.html
http://www.fi.edu/fellows/fellow1/oct98/safety/index.html
http://alex.edfac.usyd.edu.au/BLP/websites/Hibba/
http://www.sciencenetlinks.com/ebook/rocks2/rock_index.html
http://volcano.und.nodak.edu/vwdocs/vwlessons/lessons/Slideshow/Slideindex.html
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