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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   5 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  August 11
   Alex Haley, author of Roots, was born in 1921.
   Students explore their own roots by interviewing family members and use their family history to write a fictional account of their roots.
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   7 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  August 22
   Science-fiction author Ray Bradbury was born in 1920.
   Students do a Bradbury author study and then create flyers to advertise their favorite story using the ReadWriteThink Printing Press.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  August 12
   Walter Dean Myers, author of the Printz Award-winning novel Monster, was born in 1937.
   Students discuss how the form of a film script affects the story, why the author may have selected this writing style, and write a story using a similar format.