- Three of the students who
introduced me at the start of each presentation...Thank you!
Hello, Grades 7!
I spent a December day with
you speaking to you about one of my favorite topics:
research!
I began by talking about
how I grew up to be a writer and the types of books I chose to write.
Then I introduced you to my rules of research. I talked about some of
the interesting (and occasionally strange) adventures I've had. I told
you the story about the woman who went into the church at midnight and
how I did my own research for that story (retrieving the key after
driving down the lane and stopping at the second house on the
right).
I told you about my
experience with Senbi the Scribe, the Egyptian mummy at the Cleveland
Museum of Natural History. You can see Senbi right here.
l told you about (and
showed you a few photos from) my new book that will be published next
fall, Faces from the Past: Forgotten People
of North America.
I
answered your questions after each presentation.
At lunch I was
really glad to have time to meet with a small group of students over
pizza to talk in more detail about writing and research.
