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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: Born: Major Works: Fun Fact: 1842-1884
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: Born: Major Works: Fun Fact: 1900-1949
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 Years Lived: Born: Major Works: Fun Fact: 1917-1967
Columbus, Georgia
Major Works:
Members of the Wedding and The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
Fun Fact:
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 Years Lived: Born: Major Works: Fun Fact: 1925-1964
Savannah, Georgia
Major Works:
Short stories; “A Good Man is Hard to Find”
Fun Fact:
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 Years Lived: Born: Major Works: Fun Fact: 1924 -
Plains, Georgia
Major Works:
Political books, inspirational books, and memoirs; Our Endangered Values: America’s Moral Crisis
Fun Fact:
Carter is the founder of Habitat for Humanity and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002.

9. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Years Lived:
Born:
Atlanta, Georgia
Major Works:
numerous books, letters, sermons, and speeches; “I Have a Dream” speech
Fun Fact:
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 Years Lived: Born: Major Works: Fun Fact: 1930-2004
Albany, Georgia
Major Works:
blues, jazz, and gospel songs and an Autobiography; “Georgia on My Mind”
Fun Fact:
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 Years Lived: Born: Major Works: Fun Fact: 1944 -
Eatonton, Georgia
Major Works:
Various novels, short stories, and poems, focusing on race, place, and relationships; The Color Purple
Fun Fact:
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 Years Lived: Born: Major Works: Fun Fact: 1952 -
Puerto Rico; moved to August, GA at 15
Major Works:
Various poems, novels, and shortstories about the Latin American experience and cultural clashes.
Fun Fact:
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. Literary Elements in Narrative Writing
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?