PRMS 6 Author Investigation: Project

Presentations

 Driving Question: 

What is the journey an author takes from idea to final publishing?

Purpose: To promote your author and have your audience want to read her/his books.

1. If possible, dress as a character from your author's books. Speak from the perspective of who created you.

2. Introduce Yourself

 

3. Introduce your author

4. Know what you’re going to say-may need notecards

 

5. Start at the beginning - don’t jump around your author’s life

 

6. Have a conclusion (no “so yeah...” endings)

7. Dress business professional if you don't dress as a character from your book. 

 

Webpage Creators

 

Step by Step Instructions for Graffiti Maker

 

 Graffiti Maker

Step by Step Instructions for Graffiti Maker

Publicity Kit: Steps of your Project

Now that you have researched your author, you will create a publicity piece for your author. This piece should creatively promote your author.  Include interesting information about your author. Your goal is to promote your author so effectively that other students want to read his or her books.

Purpose:

To see how the information you found in your research can be shared creatively and in a fun way. 

 

To show that text in the modern world doesn’t always have to be formal or written text. 

Now that you've finished your research: 

 

1. Explore project choices on the Pleasant Ridge Middle School Library Page,  (Projects-->6th Grade-->Author Investigation-->Step 2).
2. Choose a project to complete and fill in the Author Publicity Project Google Form (Links to an external site).
3. Begin designing your project.  Remember that the goal is to "sell" your author to a 5th grade audience.  You will use images and minimal (but impactful) text to inform your audience about your author.
4. In this project, you must include information you researched from Author Influences, Author Ideas, and Author Quotes. Pick and choose information carefully.
5. Practice project presentation.
6. Top projects zoom to 5th graders.

Presentation Editing and Sentence Starter Sheets

 

Project Editing Sheet

Presentation Sentence Starter Sheet

  

Possible Ideas (Choose one):

 

• App on Chromebook--Promotional

• Video-ad on YouTube (Adobe Spark or Powtoon)

• Instagram post template

• Snapchat ad - multiscreen (use templates/slides)

• Webpage

• Build scenes from the author's life. Welcome people into the world of the author’s mind-Include scenes from their life that influenced their writing. You can also add snapshots of their books as part of their town, but most work should focus on the author's life.

• Quilt/Scrapbook pages about the author and scenes from their book

• Bus cover (skim) or mural

• Cartoon animation (Powtoon)-should be funny

• Board game with typed directions and cards, as well as all tokens, playing pieces, dice, etc.

• Author’s dinner table-Menu (about the author) and Table setting with more author information )-Can bring safe serve candy. Dress as a waiter, etc.

• Treasure chest of author's life

• RSA whiteboard animation or other animation

• Song or rap about the author

• Popup book or alphabet book about the author's life

• Poetry

• “Other” option that a student can create (must be teacher approved)-option must be creative-can be a google slide powerpoint report-ex: poetry series, video game

Design Considerations:

 

• You may also include things like: editorial reviews, testimonials, links to relevant media content like audio and video, any awards the author has won, etc.

Publicity Pieces: Actual Examples