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This is the answer key: Nicole and James

Sub-Topic:Fiction vs. Non-Fiction [] [] **Answer:**
 * Question**: Dr. Seuss is considered one of the greatest children’s book writers of all time. Has he ever written a book that was not geared to children in a fictional sense?
 * Answer**: No. he has only written cartoons…never a book.
 * Question:** What are the 9 steps to write a good fiction novel?
 * 1) Become familiar with the text
 * 2) Explore potential topics
 * 3) Select a topic with a lot of evidence
 * 4) Write out a working thesis
 * 5) Make an extended list of evidence
 * 6) Select your evidence
 * 7) Refine your thesis
 * 8) Organize your evidence
 * 9) Interpret your evidence


 * Question:** What are the steps to writing a great non-fiction book? []
 * Answer:**
 * 1) Have an idea for your book
 * 2) READ. Read books like the one you hope to write.
 * 3) Work out what works and what doesn’t in the books you read.
 * 4) Create a ‘working’ (that means it may change) title and subtitle.
 * 5) Inspired by reading other books ‘like’ yours. Your next step is to brainstorm your idea
 * 6) Choose the ingredients you would like to use in your book – what will its chapters be?
 * 7) Now choose the ingredients for each chapter – can you make the chapters follow the same pattern?
 * 8) Now it’s time to write your Table of Contents.
 * 9) Now, perhaps you would like to write a first draft of chapter one? Write it fast, don’t worry about being perfect, but get it down. Get it written.
 * 10) Get some feedback on that Table of Contents and Chapter One….

Sub-Topic: Authors **Question: ** Harriet Beecher Stowe, an American author who wrote and published more than thirty books, including the anti-slavery novel //Uncle Tom’s Cabin// believed that her actions and her words could do what? [] **// Answer: //** Harriet Beecher Stowe believed her actions could make a positive difference. Her words changed the world. ** Question: ** Mark Twain is considered to be the best American author of all times for such books as //Tom Sawyer// and //Huckleberry Finn//, however Mark Twain. What was Mark Twain’s real name? [] **// Answer //**** : ** Samuel Langhorne Clemens ** Question: ** What was it that the Famous Poet Edgar Allen Poe did the year after his wife Virginia died? [] **// Answer //**** : ** The following year he went to Providence, Rhode Island, to woo Sarah Helen Whitman, a poet. ** Question: ** What famous words did the author Oscar Wilde write, about the injustice of the hanging of Charles Thomas Wooldridge in his //Ballad of Reading Gaol//? [] **// Answer //**** : ** “Yet each man kills the thing he loves by each let this be heard, some do it with a bitter look, some with a flattering word, the coward does it with a kiss, the brave man with a sword!”