Please Note: This assignment is for Period 3 only - each class will have a different topic to research. So if your in my Period 1 or 4 English class - go back to the home page and look for your class. Listen, read this carefully, stop rushing ahead....go back to the home page and find YOUR class. I'm waiting. Still waiting...thank you.
I did an assignment similar to this with the 8th graders, so if you're confused you can look at the 8th Grade Assignment and view how this should look - of course, you'll have to wait until at least 2 students complete their post (you'll see what I mean). Basically, I want you to brush up on your researching skills and work together as a class to create a fact based document about someone. I want each student to "piggy-back" the student who posted before you and "add" to the list of details/facts. We have 23 kids in the class, by the end of this we'll have hopefully have 46 "notes" on our subject. It's important to read what has previously been posted as to not have any repetition.
Assignment: Please research Toni Morrison (writer, poet) and post two interesting facts/details about her. You must use at two different sources (doesn't have to be online - feel free to use a book, encyclopedia, magazine, etc.) and include your source in parenthesis. You are not permitted to use "Wikipedia" or any on it's off-shoots. Remember to read your classmates comments before posting, we do not want any repeats! Good luck and look for a new assignment on Wednesday!!
For example: Topic: W. Axl Rose (Singer - Guns N Roses)
Lets say Emily posts the following three facts:
1. Axl sang in his church choir as a boy. (Watch You Bleed by Stephen Davis)
2. He wrote the lyrics to "Sweet Child O' Mine" about his girlfriend, Erin Everly. (Rolling Stone.com)
3. Axl and guitarist Izzy Stradlin performed "Salt of the Earth" with the Rolling Stones in Atlantic City December 19, 1989. (Watch You Bleed by Stephen Davis)
The next person to post might be Tyler. His post would look like this:
4. Axl walked off-stage in St. Louis in 1990 instigating a riot that injured hundreds of people (VH1.com).
5. He and guitaritst Traci Guns formed the band LA Guns in 1984 (The Most Dangerous Band in the World by Mick Wall
6. Axl challenged Motley Crue singer, Vince Neil to a fight during an interview with MTV's Kurt Loder in 1989 (Vh1.com)
....and the next student would start with # 7. Got it? Good.....enjoy!!
Toni Morrison was born Chole Antony Wofford.
ReplyDeleteShe became a wirter in 1970
Mya Washington
Period 3
Did I do this right Mr.Vergara?
Mya...your post should look like this:
ReplyDelete1. Toni Morrison's real name is Chloe Anthony Wofford.(write where you found this info)
2. She began writing is 1970 (write where you found this info)
sould i rewrite it?
ReplyDelete3.Toni Morrison was the second child out of four childrend.(nobelprize.org)
ReplyDelete4.She was the first black woman to receive the Nobel Prize in literature in 1993.(distinguishedwomen.com)
5.Toni Morrison taught at the University of Yale in 1976-1997.(Womenshistory.about.com)
~lisset fuerte~
period 3
6.Toni Morrison taught at Yale in 1976 and 1977 while working on her next novel, "Song of Solomon", published in 1977.(Womenshistory.about.com)
ReplyDelete7. Toni Morrison book,"Paradise" was published in 1998 and "Love" in 2003.(Womenshistory.about.com)
8. After 1999, Toni Morrison also published a number of children's books with her son, Slade Morrison .(Womenshistory.about.com)
-Lala, English 7
1) Born Chloe Anthony Wofford, in 1931 in Lorain (Ohio), the second of four children in a black working-class family.
ReplyDelete2) Studied humanities at Howard and Cornell Universities, followed by an academic career at Texas Southern University, Howard University, Yale, and since 1989, a chair at Princeton University.
3) A member since 1981 of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, she has been awarded a number of literary distinctions, among them the Pulitzer Prize in 1988.
Thalia Huaman
period 3
p.s preciosa
12)Tony Morrison connected to her studiies and read great pieces of literature as a teen.(Biography.com)
ReplyDelete13)Toni morrison or in other words Chloe Anthony Wofford was in first grade nobody thought she was intelligent even though she was the only child in her class who could read.(Biography.com)
14)In 1957 Morrison went back to Howard Unniversity to teach english.(biography.com
Taylor Harris
period3
15.During 1955-57 Morrison was an instructor in English at Texas Southern University, at Houston, and taught in the English department at Howard.{http://kirjasto.sci.fi/tmorris.htm}
ReplyDelete16.While teaching at Howard University and caring for her two children, Morrison wrote her first novel, THE BLUEST EYE in 1970. {http://kirjasto.sci.fi/tmorris.htm}
17.Toni Morrison revealed her identity that she is Chloe Anthony Wofford in her novel,THE BLUEST EYE and then she rejected it in 1992.{http://kirjasto.sci.fi/tmorris.htm}
18) Tony morrison taught at the university of yale.
ReplyDelete19 She was the first black woman to recive the nobel prize.
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20) Toni morrison worked as an editor for random house
ReplyDelete21) she made her debut as an novelist in 1970
22) she was a membr of the american academy of arts and letters since 1981
-iyanna (lilred)
And I found it at toni morrison biography
ReplyDeleteToni Morrison has written seven books.(googlebooks)
ReplyDeleteShe was married in 1958 then later divorced in 1964.(womenshistory.about.com)
-Joi Tynes English 3
25)During 1955-57 Morrison was an instructor in English at Texas Southern University, at Houston, and taught in the English department at Howard.
ReplyDelete(http://kirjasto.sci.fi/tmorris.htm)
26)While she teached at Howard University and caring for her two children, Morrison wrote her first novel, THE BLUEST EYE (1970).
(http://kirjasto.sci.fi/tmorris.htm)
27) Morrison also established her new identity, which she later in 1992: "I am really Chloe Anthony Wofford. That's who I am. I have been writing under this other person's name. I write some things now as Chloe Wofford, private things. I regret having called myself Toni Morrison when I published my first novel. (http://kirjasto.sci.fi/tmorris.htm)
28. The story ,THE BLUEST EYE, was written for a writers group in 1966, which she was joined with the six years of merriage with the jamaican archetect Harold Morrison.
ReplyDelete29.She wrote the book Sula in 1973, which won the National book critics award.
30. In 1977 she write SONG OF SOLOMON, Morrison gained the main selection of the Book of The Month club and the first novel by a black writer to be chosen. (kirjasto.sci.fi/tmorris.htm)
Jhoy Saca Period 3
31.One of Toni Morrison quotes is ''At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough.''
ReplyDeleteRead more: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/t/toni_morrison.html#ixzz1F76NH5i6
32.Another quote is ''Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form.
Read more: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/t/toni_morrison.html#ixzz1F76dMGsy
33.one last quote is ''Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.''
Read more: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/t/toni_morrison.html#ixzz1F76xhLJF
these are actual quotes from Tori Morrison isn't it interesting
Emily Santos
period 3
hi
Morrison did not become fully aware of racial divisions until she was in her teens.
ReplyDeleteWhen Toni was in first grade nobody thought Morrison was below them. Morrison was the only black in the class and the only child who could read!!
Beloved was published in (1987) it involved love and the supernatural.
http://www.biography.com/articles/Toni-Morrison
35. Tonni Morrison was born Chloe Anthony Wofford in Lorain (Ohio). ( Tonni Morrison Biography )
ReplyDelete36. Tonni won the Noble Peace Prize in 1993. ( Tonni Morrison )
Moriah just posted they messed up my screen name.
ReplyDelete38. In 1964, Toni Morrison got a job at Random House in Syracuse, NY. She was hoping to be transferred to NYC. (distinguishedwomen.com)
ReplyDelete39. Toni Morrison had her first novel The Bluest Eye (1970) published. It received mixed reviews, did not sell well and was out of print by 1974. (academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/english/melani/cs6/morrison.html)
40.Toni Morrison, the first black woman to receive Nobel Prize in Literature
ReplyDelete41.Toni Morrison was born Chloe Anthony Wofford on February 18, 1931 in Lorain, Ohio