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Jacqueline Woodson Research

Filed Under (Uncategorized) by nlrt on 12-12-2007

Tomorrow you will start reading Miracle’s Boys by Jacqueline Woodson.  Today we are going to do some background research on the author.

1.  Please go to http://www.jacquelinewoodson.com/index.shtml and find the “My Biography” link.  Read about Jacqueline Woodson’s life.  Then use the Venn diagram to compare and contrast your life and Woodson’s. 

2.  Now please go to http://summerreading.nypl.org/read2003/chats/woodson.cfm to read an interview of Woodson.  After you read the interview, post a comment with three questions you would like to ask the author.  Make sure they aren’t already asked in the interview or answered in the biography you read.  Leave your answer as a comment. 

3.  Find a description of at least 5 other books Woodson has written.  Choose one that you think you might like to read, and explain why you might like it.  Leave the name of the book and why you might want to read it in a comment. 

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torring@epals.com on 12 December, 2007 at 12:42 pm #
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1.HOW MANY BOOKS HAVE YOU WRITTEN?
2.WHEN DID YOU START WRITEING BOOKS?
3.DO YOU HAVE ANY KIDS OR PETS?


torring@epals.com on 12 December, 2007 at 12:48 pm #
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THE BOOK I WOULD WANT TO READ IS FEATHERS BECAUSE IT TAKES LACE IN THE 1970′S AND I WAS NOT BORN THEN SO I WOULD LIKE TO LEARN ABOUT IT.


angelica r on 12 December, 2007 at 12:52 pm #
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how many hours a day do you write?
have you ever writen a bookthat involved you in a phisicol fighting?
have you ever had a feeling when you didn’t want to write any more?


brionna on 12 December, 2007 at 12:54 pm #
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Jacquel Woodson is a good writer because she wrote great books likethe book our class is reading Mircale Boyz.So really I think she is a great book writer and I jope she write more great books and I also want to say that she a amsome person who love to write and also who loves to read I like that to about her even though I dont like to read that much,But Jacquel Woodson is a great well not great amsome book writer and a amsome reader.


mh on 12 December, 2007 at 12:54 pm #
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What was the name of your school?
Does anyone else in your family love to write book ?
who many book do you plan on writting


brionna on 12 December, 2007 at 12:56 pm #
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I also like to say I would like to read any of her books some day.
And I would keep reading all the books she wrote or made, all the novels.


brionna on 12 December, 2007 at 1:12 pm #
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she haved wrote alot of books and i like that alot and i think she see that maybe should write poems.


angelica r on 12 December, 2007 at 1:57 pm #
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The bok I want to read is mirical’s brothers
beacouse I like the cover of the book and I read the back cover and it sounds very cool.I also like it beacouse the cover had a type of nice picture that was light and one thats dark.


ninoushkam on 12 December, 2007 at 2:06 pm #
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do you think you could live with out writing?

how many books do you think you will write?

is writing really important to you more than anything?


yahairaf on 12 December, 2007 at 2:07 pm #
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what was your longest book you have written?
what was the first book you wrote?
how long have you been writen books?
have you ever thought about stop writting books?


francisco on 12 December, 2007 at 2:13 pm #
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coul they have writen more.


Keyla M on 12 December, 2007 at 2:13 pm #
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What was the first book you wrote and why did you want to write it?
IN any of the books were you in them like your own charcter?
Does your daughter like write as much as you do?
2.The dear one
3.hush
4.lena
5. the house you passed on the way
6.Mircale’s Boys
I would like to read 2 books If you come softly and the dear one because I read about it and sounds so sad and it’s not good to separate love from a black and a whit if they love each ther let them be


yahairaf on 12 December, 2007 at 2:15 pm #
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The Dear One
The House You Pass On The Way
Lena
From The Notebooks Of Melenin Sun
Miricle’s Boys
If You Come Softly
Behind You
Hush


wildaly v on 12 December, 2007 at 2:16 pm #
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1.when did you finish writing the book Miracle’s Boy.
2.what book did you like the most?
3. when did you begin writing books?


raul on 12 December, 2007 at 2:17 pm #
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why did you first start writing?
how long have you been writing?
who insired you to write?


nathanw on 12 December, 2007 at 2:18 pm #
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1.what was the most popular book
2.what book was the most that you got another
3.how long have she been writing


francisco on 12 December, 2007 at 2:18 pm #
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do you think they could have live with out writing.


raul on 12 December, 2007 at 2:19 pm #
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why did you first start writing?
how long have you been writing?
how many hours do you write in one day?


yahairaf on 12 December, 2007 at 2:20 pm #
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I would like to read miricle boys


aaron Martineau on 12 December, 2007 at 2:21 pm #
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Is mircale boys one of your favorite books?
How old were you when you published a book?
how many books did you publish?


raul on 12 December, 2007 at 2:22 pm #
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The Dear One because it is about a pregnant teenager


nathanw on 12 December, 2007 at 2:27 pm #
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the book that i really want to read is miricale boys.i want to read it because it looks really good and almost like what happened to me


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