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3 minutes. Universal Screener. Take a look at the words below. What do they have in common? Can you describe their similarities? Differences? Can you sort them into categories?. Sidney Lanier. Years Lived: 1842-1884 Born: Macon , Georgia Major Works:

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Universal Screener

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  1. 3 minutes Universal Screener

  2. Take a look at the words below. What do they have in common? Can you describe their similarities? Differences? Can you sort them into categories?

  3. Sidney Lanier • Years Lived: • 1842-1884 • Born: • Macon, Georgia • Major Works: • Poetry and songs; Poem, “The Marshes of Glynn” • Fun Fact: • Lanier County (Lakeland, GA) is named for Sidney Lanier. Also, Lake Lanier, which supplies much of Atlanta’s drinking water is named for him.

  4. Joel Chandler Harris • Years Lived: • 1845-1908 • Born: • Eatonton, Georgia • Major Works: • Uncle Remus stories • Fun Fact: • Harris’ father abandoned the family after his mother ran away to be with him. Harris had red hair and freckles.

  5. Margaret Mitchell • Years Lived: • 1900-1949 • Born: • Atlanta, Georgia • Major Works: • Gone With the Wind • Fun Fact: • Her middle name was Munnerlyn, but her nickname was Peggy. She died when she was hit by a taxi cab crossing Peachtree Street. GWTW was her only novel.

  6. Carson McCullers • YearsLived: • 1917-1967 • Born: • Columbus, Georgia • MajorWorks: • Members of the Wedding and The Heart is a Lonely Hunter • FunFact: • She attended the Jullard School in New York City for piano. Her husband committed suicide and tried to convince her to do the same.

  7. Flannery O’Connor • YearsLived: • 1925-1964 • Born: • Savannah, Georgia • MajorWorks: • Short stories; “A Good Man is Hard to Find” • FunFact: • She is quoted saying that she liked to write stories about “freaks.” She died at the age of 39 from Lupus, a disease in which the body’s immune system attacks itself.

  8. Jimmy Carter • YearsLived: • 1924 - • Born: • Plains, Georgia • MajorWorks: • Political books, inspirational books, and memoirs; Our Endangered Values: America’s Moral Crisis • FunFact: • Carter is the founder of Habitat for Humanity and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002.

  9. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. • YearsLived: • 1929-1968 • Born: • Atlanta, Georgia • MajorWorks: • numerous books, letters, sermons, and speeches; “I Have a Dream” speech • FunFact: • King barely survived an early assassination attempt. In September 1958, a mentally-ill black woman, Isola Ware Curry, stabbed King in the chest at a book signing in New York.

  10. Ray Charles • YearsLived: • 1930-2004 • Born: • Albany, Georgia • MajorWorks: • blues, jazz, and gospel songs and an Autobiography; “Georgia on My Mind” • FunFact: • Nicknamed “The Genius”; He was traumatized by the death of his baby brother who drowned at the age of 4 in a bathtub.

  11. Alice Walker • YearsLived: • 1944 - • Born: • Eatonton, Georgia • MajorWorks: • Various novels, short stories, and poems, focusing on race, place, and relationships; The Color Purple • FunFact: • At the age of eight, her brother scarred and blinded her right eye with a BB gun in a game of cowboys and Indians.

  12. Judith Ortiz Cofer • YearsLived: • 1952 - • Born: • Puerto Rico; moved to August, GA at 15 • MajorWorks: • Various poems, novels, and shortstories about the Latin American experience and cultural clashes. • FunFact: • She is a professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Georgia.

  13. Summarizing Activity:Look closely! • Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. • Ray Charles • Alice Walker • Jimmy Carter Quad Cluster Directions List the four words in the cluster at the top of your journal page. Circle the one that is different from the other three. Write two to three sentences explaining how the circled word is different. Write two to three more sentences explaining how the other three words are alike. Lesson EQ: What do I notice about Georgia authors and the texts they create? ELACC8W7: The student will conduct short research projects to answer a question.

  14. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6I24S72Jps • Step 1: Folder your paper in half. • Be sure that you see the first 2 columns, Vocabulary Word and I think this means… • Step 2: Take a few minutes to record what you THINK the words mean. • Don’t cheat and look at the answers!  • Step 3: Create an illustration or example to represent each of the vocabulary words (Column 4). What’s Next? Literary Elements in Narrative Writing

  15. Last but not least… • Journal Time!!! • Which has a greater impact on the reader’s engagement, point of view or setting?

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