ELA-Author-Imag-IT

Author's Craft - Imagery - Print - Information Texts
Enjoy learning about nature from photographs and informational text by this author.
 * 3-5**
 * Books by the author Seymour Simon []

Enjoy Nic Bishop's informational books filled with wonderful photographs along with entriguing text that will appeal to the reader.
 * Books by the author Nic Bishop []

New York Times journalist, Joseph B. Treaster, gives an eyewitness account of the devastation of Hurricane Katrina. Also, read to learn about past hurricanes and ways to be prepared for future hurricanes.
 * //Hurricane Force: In the Path of America's Deadliest Storms// by Joseph B. Treaster, ISBN


 * //Sandlapper// magazines (The Magazine of South Carolina) found at []


 * //Sports Articles from The State Newspaper// []


 * //Editorials from The State Newspaper// []


 * //Weekly Reader// magazines


 * //Time for Kids// magazines-- []


 * //Periscope// issues; Log on to [] to click on resources related to our South Carolina curriculum standards.

6-8
Analyzes excerpts from famous works to explain how to write more descriptive story lines. Includes "think like a writer" excercises for students.
 * //Painting the Picture: Imagery and Description.// Valerie Bodden. Creative Education, 2009. ISBN 978-1-58341-623-5.

E1-E4

 * //Spider Speculations: A Physics and Biophysics of Storytelling// by Jo Carson. ISBN: 9781559362832. The author provides images of her creative process side-by-side when a spider bite alters her life seemingly forever. She ties her story with other examples of oral histories turned into literature.
 * //"I am Here Today"// by George Seldes from The Essential Chaplin: Perspectives on the Life and Art of the Great Comedian edited and with an introduction by Richard Schickel. ISBN: 978156663701 or 1566637015. Form effigy to cinematic immortality, Seldes show us the images of the natural man: taxpayer, citizen and artist who can create images first discovered by children and then taken seriously by dedicated cineastes.
 * Chapters 29 and 30, including //"The Ascent of Vesuvius"// by Mark Twain from The Innocents Abroad or The New Pilgrims' Progress by Mark Twain. ISBN: 0895773392. The images of a hapless traveler discovering people and places while sometimes bringing images of the impractical with the pratical. Judging all the way through about his felllow travelers, images of themsleves and the native peoples, both fair and unfair. The historical setting seems evoke many images in the author's words.
 * "The Last Chapter" from //The World Must Know: The History of the Holocaust As Told in the United States Holocaust Museum// (second edition) by Michael Berenbaum. ISBN: 080188358X. Photographic images and images in text of the "discovery" of the total horror of the Holocaust abound beside quotations from those who were there and those who were not.
 * "Chapter 17: The Flames of Louvain" // from The Guns of August// by Barbara W. Tuchman. ISBN: 03538623X. Images of many nationalities and personalities as they begin the defending of war as a logocal extension of man's ideals. In addition anti-war images proliferate and change.