Author+Outlines

=Standards= Language Arts 5.1a: Use card catalogs and computer databases to locate sources for research topics. Language Arts 5.2a: Record, organize, and display relevant information from multiple sources in systematic ways (outlines) =Outlines= Using an outline can help you organize your material and can also help you discover connections between pieces of information that you weren't aware of when you first conceived the plan of your paper. It can also make you aware of material that is not really relevant to the purposes of your paper or material that you have covered before and should therefore be removed.

Outlines can be organized according to your purposes. Are you attempting to show the chronology of some historical development, the cause-and-effect relationship between one phenomenon and another, the process by which something is accomplished, or the logic of some position? Are you defining or analyzing something? Comparing or contrasting one thing to another? Presenting an argument (one side or both)?

In any case, try to bring related material together under general headings and arrange sections so they relate logically to each other. An effective introduction will map out the journey your reader is about to take, and a satisfactory conclusion will wrap up the sequence of ideas in a nice package. (from [], accessed 27 October 2009)

=Your Assignment= 6th Grade: Lucy Maud Montgomery 7th Grade: S.E. Hinton 8th Grade: Jack London

Save this Word document to the student drive using the name convention firstname.lastname.3rdhour in the folder Mrs. Hill outlines. For instance I would be elizabeth.maxwell.3rd if I were in 3rd hour.

You will be using the Biography Resource Center to research your author and create an outline about his/her life. Please answer the following questions in your outline: =Outline Samples= You may use the following samples to guide you in building an outline. (from [] accessed 27 October 2009).
 * 1) What are some important details about this writer's early life (childhood through young adulthood)?
 * 2) Where does this writer live (if still alive) or where did this writer live (if not alive today) ?
 * 3) At what point in life did this writer become interested in writing as a career? Why?
 * 4) Did this person have a career before he/she became a professional writer? If so, give the details of that career.
 * 5) What circumstances inspired this writer to write the novel you will read as a class assignment?

=Biography Resource Center= Biography Resource Center user name: start password: library