Author Cards

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Author Cards
Batter Up!
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Introduction
Have you noticed that there are lots of baseball
card clones available now? Baseball cards have
led to NASCAR cards, football cards, basketball
cards, and even rock star cards. What if the
library had author cards to look at?
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Task

• You will create an author card about Lois Lowry,
  Gary Paulsen, Caroline B. Cooney, Avi, Louis
  Sachar, Paul Zindel, Sid Fleischman, or Joan
  Lowry Nixon that contains the following
• a picture of the author
• biographical information (Name, Date of Birth,
  Hometown, Family)
• list of books that the author wrote

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Resources

• Internet Resources
• Author Sites
• Lois Lowry
• http//falcon.jmu.edu/ramseyil/lowry.htm
• http//ils.unc.edu/award/19--/n1990a.html
• Gary Paulsen
• http//www.randomhouse.com/features/garypaulsen/ab
  out.html
• http//scils.rutgers.edu/kvander/paulsen.html
• Caroline B. Cooney
• http//www.teenreads.com/authors/au-cooney-carolin
  e.asp
• http//www.kidsreads.com/authors/au-cooney-carolin
  e.asp
• Joan Lowry Nixon
• http//teacher.scholastic.com/writewit/mystery/bio
  .htm
• http//www.randomhouse.com/teachers/authors/nixo.h
  tml
• Avi
• http//www.avi-writer.com/
• http//www.carolhurst.com/authors/avi.html

Click on the button to return to the Research
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Resources Continued
Louis Sachar http//www.cbcbooks.org/html/louissac
har.html http//www.readin.org/authors/author_page
s/Sachar/sachar.htm Sid Fleischman http//www2.sch
olastic.com/teachers/authorsandbooks/authorstudies
/authorhome.jhtml?authorID34collateralID5158di
splayNameBiography http//www.carr.lib.md.us/auth
co/fleischman.htm Paul Zindel http//www.randomhou
se.com/teachers/authors/zind.html http//www2.scho
lastic.com/teachers/authorsandbooks/authorstudies/
authorhome.jhtml?authorID217collateralID5312di
splayNameBiography General Search Engines Ask
Jeeves for Kids http//www.ajkids.com/ Kids
Click! Web Search http//sunsite.berkeley.edu/Ki
dsClick!/ Yahooligans http//www.yahooligans.com/

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Process

• Step 1
• Create a Card
• Includes
• a picture on the front
• biographical information on the back
• Step 2
• Research the Author.
• You will need the following information
• a picture of the author
• biographical information (Name, Date of birth,
  Hometown, and Family)
• list of books that the author wrote

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Step I

• Open Word
• Save the document
• File/Save As
• select Student on Server/Teacher/Period
• change the File Name to your last name and author
  card
• Set up the Page
• click on File/Page Setup
• select the Margins tab and change the Top, Left,
  and Right margins to .5
• change the Bottom margin to 4.0
• change the view to Landscape
• click on OK
• select Format/Columns
• select Two columns and check Line Between
• Select OK
• hit the Enter key until the line appears
• put the cursor back at the beginning of the first
  column
• The first column will be the front of your card
  and the second column will be the back.

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Step 2 Picture

• Research the Author
• Picture of Author
• find a picture of the author and copy/paste it in
  a Word document
• the picture should be in the first column
• right click on the picture and select Format
  Picture
• Click on the Size tab and change the width and
  height to 2.0
• cite the source of the picture by copying and
  pasting the web address under the picture
• after pasting in the source, make sure the cursor
  is at the end of the address and then press ENTER
  until the cursor goes to the next column
• you may need to reposition the picture once the
  line appears between the column
• save the document
• Click here to see an example

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Step 2 Research

• Research the Author
• Go to the Resources page and find the following
  information.
• Name
• Date of Birth
• Hometown
• Family
• List of books written by author
• Enter the information in the second column of the
  Author Card
• Click here to see the example.
• Make sure to cite your sources
• Once the information is typed on the document,
  SAVE

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• Check your card for errors.
• Is everything spelled correctly?
• Is the information lined up in the correct
  column?
• Is there a picture?
• Have you cited the source of the picture?
• Did you include the authors name?
• Date of birth?
• Hometown?
• Family?
• Do you include a list of books written by the
  author?
• Do you list the sources for your biographical
  research?
• If you answered YES to all of these questions,
  then you may go to the next step.

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Next Step!

• Create a text box and type in your heading.
• Click on the text box icon
• (See the bottom of your screen.)
• Click and drag open the box in the upper right
  corner
• Enter your name, date, and period

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Finishing the Card

• fold the card and cut off the bottom section
• fold the card so that the picture is on the front
  and the information is on the back
• glue the page together

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It's time to print!

• select Format/Columns and take out the check for
  Line Between
• select File/Print Preview.
• make sure everything is just perfect.
• select Print when you are ready.

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Evaluation

• Your card will be evaluated with the following
  criteria
• Picture
• Source of picture
• Name of Author
• Date of Birth
• Hometown
• Family
• Books written by Author
• Source(s) of research
• Text Box with Heading