Georgia Authors

1. Georgia Authors Expository Writing

2. ELA8R4 a. Identifies a variety of Georgia authors both male and female.

3. EQ • Who are some famous Georgia Authors.

4. Instructions: • As you view this presentation, use the information presented to answer questions about famous writers from Georgia. • Answer the questions on your own paper (answers only). • When you are done, read an AR Book.

5. What Standard are you working on? • Create and I can statement for this standard. • What is the Essential question? • Where was Sidney Lanier Born (City, State)? • Which author wrote a poem titled “Corn” in the year 1875? • Where was Margaret Mitchell Born (City, State) • What is Margaret Mitchell’s most famous novel? • Who is the main character in the novel mentioned in question 3? • What two colleges did Alice Walker Attend? • Which Novel by Alice walker won a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction? • When and where was Conrad Aiken born. • List 3 Awards that Conrad Aiken has won? • What book did Conrad Aiken write that told about his turbulent year as an elementary school teacher of poor black children in a throwback rural, racist school system on isolated Daufuskie Island, S.C? • Joel Chandler Harris is famous for creating the character Uncle______ • When did Harris die?

6. Sidney Lanier

7. LANIER, Sidney • (1842-81), American poet, born in Macon, Ga., and educated at Oglethorpe College. He served in the Confederate army during the American Civil War. In 1873 he became a flutist in the Peabody Symphony Orchestra of Baltimore, Md., and in 1879 he was appointed lecturer in English at Johns Hopkins University. He died of tuberculosis.

8. Lanier is the outstanding southern poet of the last four decades of the 19th century. His poetry is noted for its musical quality, its religious and ethical feeling, and its indictment of the social and economic evils resulting from commercialism. His best-known poems include "Corn" (1875), "The Symphony" (1875), "Song of the Chattahoochee" (1877), "The Revenge of Hamish" (1878), "The Marshes of Glynn" (1879), and "A Ballad of Trees and the Master" (1880). His prose works include Science of English Verse (1880), a study of the relationship between poetry and music.

9. Margaret Mitchell

10. Margaret Mitchell • American author of the enormously popular novel GONE WITH WIND (1936), story about the Civil War and Reconstruction as seen from the Southern point of view. The book was adapted into a highly popular film in 1939, starring Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh. At the novel's opening in 1861, Scarlett O'Hara is a young girl. During the story she experiences Secession, the Civil War, Reconstruction, as well as three marriages and motherhood.

11. "Scarlett O'Hara was not beautiful, but men seldom realized it when caught by her charm as the Tarleton twins were. In her face were too sharply blended the delicate features of her mother, a Coast aristocrat of French descent, and the heavy ones of her florid Irish father. But it was an arresting face, pointed of chin, square of jaw. Her eyes were pale green without a touch of hazel, starred with bristly black lashes and slightly tilted at the ends. Above them, her thick black brows slanted upward, cutting a startling oblique line in her magnolia-white skin - that skin so prized by Southern women and so carefully guarded with bonnets, veils and mittens against hot Georgia sun." (from Gone with the Wind)

12. Margaret Mitchell was born in Atlanta. Her mother was a suffragist and father a prominent lawyer and president of the Atlanta Historical Society. Mitchell grew up listening to stories about old Atlanta and the battles the Confederate Army had fought there during the American Civil War. At the age of fifteen she wrote in her journal: "If I were a boy, I would try for West Point, if I could make it, or well I'd be a prize fighter - anything for the thrills." Mitchell graduated from the local Washington Seminary and started in 1918 to study medicine at Smith College.

13. Alice Walker

14. Alice Walker • Novelist, poet, feminist. Born Alice Malsenior Walker on February 9, 1944, in Eatonton, Georgia. Alice Walker is one of the most admired African American writers working today. She studied at Spelman College, Atlanta, and Sarah Lawrence College, New York, then worked as a social worker, teacher, and lecturer. She took a brief sabbatical from her writing in the 1960s to live in Mississippi and work in the civil rights movement, returning to New York to write for Ms. magazine. • An accomplished poet, Alice Walker is best known for her novels, most notably 1982's The Color Purple for which she won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. The book was later made into a successful film, which tells the story of two black sisters in the segregated world of the Deep South. Later novels include The Temple of My Familiar, Possessing the Secretof Joy, and By the Light of My Father's Smile. She has also written volumes of short stories and essays, including You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down and In Search of My Mother's Garden.

15. Conrad Aiken

16. Click on the Following link to answer questions about Conrad Aiken • http://www.libs.uga.edu/gawriters/aiken.html • Once You have answered the questions exit out of the internet and return to the PowerPoint

17. Pat Conroy

18. Click on the Following link to answer questions about Pat Conroy • http://www.libs.uga.edu/gawriters/conroy.html • Once You have answered the questions exit out of the internet and return to the PowerPoint

19. Joel Chandler Harris

20. Click on the Following link to answer questions about Joel Chandler Harris • http://www.libs.uga.edu/gawriters/harris.html • Once You have answered the questions exit out of the internet and return to the PowerPoint

21. Done? • Read your AR Book. • Or follow this link and complete a lesson on • Prepositions • Adverbs • http://ellerbruch.nmu.edu/CS255/cusher/English.html