By William Joyce

1. "The World of William Joyce Scrapbook" By William Joyce Theme 4: Express Yourself “The World of William Joyce Scrapbook”

2. Summary Slide • Word Relationships • Use Text Structure and Format • Background • Purpose • Word Relationships • Fact and Opinion • Classify/Categorize • Synthesize • About the Author • Websites Theme 4: Express Yourself “The World of William Joyce Scrapbook”

3. Word Relationships • Texts often provide clues to the meaning of unfamiliar words. Specifically, the same sentence or a nearby sentence may provide a synonym or an antonym of the unfamiliar word. • Look how true-to-life this picture is! It’s very realistic. • - “true-to-life”, synonym, lifelike • The lump of clay shrank when I left it in the sun, but it swelled up again when I put it in water. • - “swelled up again”, antonym, got smaller • My artistic talent is small, while hers is gigantic. • - “small”, antonym, mammoth, large Theme 4: Express Yourself “The World of William Joyce Scrapbook”

4. Use Text Structure and Format Good readers use strategies, such as using text structure and format, to help them understand how an author organizes and presents information. Good readers read actively, paying close attention to the words they read, the illustrations, and the way in which the text is organized, so that they can better understand what they read. Theme 4: Express Yourself “The World of William Joyce Scrapbook”

5. Autobiography • An autobiography is a type of nonfiction in which a person tells about his or her own life and experiences. It can be long or short. • An autobiography is usually written from the first-person point of view and often includes pronouns I and me. • An autobiography often reveals something about the author’s personality. Theme 4: Express Yourself “The World of William Joyce Scrapbook”

6. Chronological Order • Chronological order, or time order, is a way of organizing a piece of writing. • Some stories, biographies, and autobiographies are written in this way, moving forward in time from one event to another. Theme 4: Express Yourself “The World of William Joyce Scrapbook”

7. Purpose • Read to find out how William Joyce creates his books. • Read “The World of William Joyce Scrapbook”, pp. 424 – 435. • Checkout this Website to see how authors write and publish their books. • Page by Page Theme 4: Express Yourself “The World of William Joyce Scrapbook”

8. Word Relationships • The miners who found gold in California were free-spending, not miserly. • Thus, San Francisco became a flourishing town, and Sacramento was equally prosperous. • The miner’s dank clothing became dry quickly in the hot California sun. • The gold-seekers all had slogans, but the motto best remembered is that of the Colorado miners: “Pikes Peak or Bust.” • James Marshall was delirious with joy when he discovered gold at Sutter’s Mill, but others who thought it was “fool’s gold” were not nearly so excited. • Colorado was sparsely settled before the discovery of gold in 1858 along Cherry Creek; the area became thickly populated within a year. Theme 4: Express Yourself “The World of William Joyce Scrapbook”

9. Fact and Opinion • Facts give information that can be proved true. • Inferences are conclusions drawn from facts. • Opinions express thoughts or feelings that cannot be proved true or false. • On page 430, when William Joyce says, “It takes a long time,” he is expressing an opinion, because what seems like a long time to him may seem short to someone else. However, the two months he spent on one book and the two years on another are facts that could be proved. Theme 4: Express Yourself “The World of William Joyce Scrapbook”

10. Fact and Opinion Chemistry is one of the most fascinating sciences. Chemists today are developing products that will transform our lives. For example, chemists at the Duncan Labs are working on new fertilizers that may improve crop yields by as much as fifty percent. It was not too many years ago that enterprising and dedicated chemists created the plastics that are now used for just about everything from trash bags to furniture. Students who are trying to find a challenging and rewarding career should consider chemistry. Find the statements of fact. Theme 4: Express Yourself “The World of William Joyce Scrapbook”

11. Classify/Categorize • When you classify, you organize words, objects, or ideas into groups, or classes. • A category is a set of features that the things in a class have in common. Most words, objects, and ideas can fit into several different categories. • William Joyce classifies the art mediums he used: watercolors, pencils, pastels, charcoal, crayons, felt-tipped pens, pen and ink. Theme 4: Express Yourself “The World of William Joyce Scrapbook”

12. Classify/Categorize Geographical features is a category to which all the following words belong. prairie, rivers, streams, glaciers, icebergs, tundra, foothills, plains, mountains, oceans, mesas, lakes Fill in the following charts. prairie, plains, mountains, foothills, mesas, tundra rivers, lakes, oceans, streams, glaciers, icebergs Theme 4: Express Yourself “The World of William Joyce Scrapbook”

13. Classify/Categorize Geographical features is a category to which all the following words belong. prairie, rivers, streams, glaciers, icebergs, tundra, foothills, plains, mountains, oceans, mesas, lakes Fill in the following charts. mountains foothills mesa rivers lakes oceans streams prairie plains tundra glaciers icebergs Theme 4: Express Yourself “The World of William Joyce Scrapbook”

14. Synthesize • Synthesize is to gather information from more than one source and then to combine it in a new way. • William Joyce synthesized memories of his own toys and two popular story characters to create George. • What sources did he use for Dinosaur Bob? (See pp. 432-433.) • Dinosaurs, family pets, King Kong, Paul Bunyan, and Casey at the Bat Theme 4: Express Yourself “The World of William Joyce Scrapbook”

15. About the Author • Born on December 11, 1957 • Lives and works in Louisiana • Wrote stories as a child and drew big, bright pictures for them • Dad says, “He was born with a pencil in his hands.” • About the Author • My Story Theme 4: Express Yourself “The World of William Joyce Scrapbook”

16. Websites • Reading Skills Rocket: Word Relationships • Test Tutor: Word Relationships • Test Tutor: Classify/Categorize • Grammar Park: On the Trail of Adjectives and Adverbs • Grammar Gold: Adjectives and Adverbs Theme 4: Express Yourself “The World of William Joyce Scrapbook”

17. Credits • Harcourt Trophies – Distant Voyages, Chicago: Harcourt, 2003. • MacMillan Connections – Landscapes, New York: Macmillan Publishing Company, 1987. Theme 4: Express Yourself “The World of William Joyce Scrapbook”