Please be sure to bring your outside reading book to class on Thursday, December 1. We will begin to prepare for our final outside-reading project, a letter to the author.
You should have finished reading your outside reading book by Thursday, December 15. Your letter to the author of your book is due that same day. (I will provide directions and a rubric on Thursday of this week.)
On the day the letter is due, please have the following things assembled:
1. Your signed, word-processed letter placed in a stamped, addressed envelope. Address your envelope as follows:
Your author's first and last name
The name of your author's publishing house
The address of the publishing house
Frequently, you can find the address of an author's publishing house on the copyright page of a book. If it is not there, do an internet search using the name of the publisher. Once you locate the publisher--for example, Random House--go to the "contact" link. More often than not, you will find an address there.
Be sure to include your return address in the upper left corner!
2. A second copy of your letter, also word-processed and signed. This copy should have the rubric stapled to the top and the handout "Outside Reading Book Overview" stapled to the back.
