Please Note: This assignment is for Period 4 only - each class will have a different topic to research. So if you're in my Period 1 or 3 English class - go back to the home page now and look for the assignment that pertains to YOUR class. Listen James, just focus on your class - if you want extra credit, do this on loose-leaf and hand it to me when we come back next week. Thanks.
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 19 kids in the class, by the end of this we'll have hopefully have 38 "notes" on our subject. It's important to read what has previously been posted as to not have any repetition.
Assignment: Please research Mya Angelou (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!!
1.Born on April 4th, 1928, in St. Louis, Missouri, Dr. Angelou was raised in St. Louis and Stamps, Arkansas.(mayaangelou.com)
ReplyDelete2.She is an author, poet, historian, songwriter, playwright, dancer, stage and screen producer, director, performer, singer, and civil rights activist.(poets.org)
3.She is best known for her autobiographical books: All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes (1986), The Heart of a Woman (1981), Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas (1976), Gather Together in My Name (1974), and I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969).(poets.org)
-Bianca Arellano=)
period 4
4.As a teenager, Dr. Angelou’s love for the arts won her a scholarship to study dance and drama at San Francisco’s Labor School.
ReplyDelete5.She had dropped out at 14 to become a San Francisco’s first African-American female cable car conductor.
6.In 1960 she went to Cairo, Egypt to serve as editor of the English Language weekly The Arab Observer.
Gino Gutierrez Period 4
7.Mya Angelou was a member of the Harlem Writers Guild in the late 1950s.
ReplyDelete8.Mya Angelou was active in the Civil Rights movement.
9.Mya Angelou served as Northern Coordinator of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
Timothy Huynh
period 4
9. Mya Angelou is best known for her six autobiographical which focus her life
ReplyDelete10.Mya Angelou served as Martin Luther King Jr. northern coodinator
11.She is highly respected to be spokesmen for black men and women
12. At age eight, she was raped by her mother's boyfriend, who was subsequently killed by her uncles.
ReplyDelete13. At 16 she gave birth to a son, Guy, after which she toured Europe and Africa in the musical Porgy and Bess.
14. Dr. Angelou is a celebrated poet, memoirist, novelist, educator, dramatist, producer, actress, historian, filmmaker, and civil rights activist.
~morelia huaman~
period 4
15.She is an author, poet, historian, songwriter, playwright, dancer, stage and screen producer, director, performer, singer, and civil rights activist.
ReplyDelete16.At age eight, she was raped by her mother's boyfriend, who was subsequently killed by her uncles.
17.Mya Angelou is best known for her six autobiographical which focus her life.
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ReplyDelete18. Maya Angelou parents were divorce when she was 3 yrs old in St.Louis in 1931.
ReplyDelete19. In 1973 Angelou had gotten married to Paul de Feu, a writer and a cartoonist.
20. Angelou has 4 plays, a cookbook,six autobiographies and etc.
21. Whem she heard that her uncle had killed her mothers boyfriend she felt that her words had killed him instead of her uncle.
ReplyDelete22.She fell into silence and did not speak for 5 years.
23.She attended Mission High School and won a scholarship to study dance and drama at San Francisco's Labor School.
Jewels Cherry
Period 4
21.Maya Angelou was a famous American poet and author in 1932.(Womenshistory.com)
ReplyDelete22.At age 16 she gave birth to a son.(biagraphy.com)
Dezere Watkins
Period 4
23: Maya Angelou was born in Marguerite Johnson on April 4, 1928 in St. Louis, Missouri.
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Josteen Gonzales
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25.Maya Angelou script, the first by an African American woman ever to be filmed, was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize.
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26. Maya Angelou has received over 30 honorary degrees and is Reynolds Professor of American Studies at Wake Forest University.
(mayaangelou.com/bio/)
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Maya Angelou recieved over 30 honorary degress.
ReplyDeleteMaya Angelou was born on april 4th,1923, in St. Louis Missouri.
Maya Angelou wa an African-American Activist.
30. Dr. Maya Angelou, one of Glamour Magazine´s 2009 Women of the Year, is celebrating the holiday season with her new inspiring film "The Black Candle: A Kwanzaa Celebration." (http://mayaangelou.com/news/9/)
ReplyDelete31. Her parents divorced when she was only three and was sent with her brother Bailey to live with their grandmother in the small town of Stamps, Arkansas where she got to expirence racism.
www.achievement.org
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