Rowling

Here are your readings:

=Term 2=
 * Week || Title || Resource || Follow-up Activity ||
 * 1 || Get Out of my Hair || SJ 4:2 2000 || Choose a follow-up activity from the blooms sheet given ||
 * 2 || Instructional Online Reading ||  ||   ||
 * 3 || Instructional Online Reading ||  ||   ||
 * 4 || Instructional Online Reading ||  ||   ||
 * 5 || Instructional Online Reading ||  ||   ||
 * 6 || Instructional Online Reading ||  ||   ||
 * 7 || Instructional Online Reading ||  ||   ||
 * 8 || Instructional Online Reading ||  ||   ||
 * 9 || Speak Your Mind || Sails Readers || Find any words/ phrases you find interesting to use in your own speech. Work on own speech. ||
 * 10 ||  ||   ||   ||

=Term 1=
 * Week || Title || Resource || Follow-up Activity ||
 * 4 || Is that a soft drink bottle you're wearing? || SJ 4:1 1999 || Choose a follow-up activity from the blooms sheet given ||
 * 5 || Ancient but Earthquake proof || SJ 3:2 2001 || Choose a follow-up activity from the blooms sheet given ||
 * 6 || Camp Diary || Unknown || On a venn diagram, show the similarities and differences between Kate's camp and what you think will happen on our camp. ||
 * 7 || Camp Week || n/a || n/a ||
 * 8 || Reading Assessment || Various || Audio Boo ||
 * 9 || Reading Assessment || Running Records || Complete the reading portfolio sample sheet ||
 * 10 ||  ||   ||   ||

//**Found By Isaac**//
Today she supports many charities and serves as a social and political inspiration for many. She is one of the iconic figures in literature. Readers all around the world, mesmerized by her works, are looking forward for more from this brilliant authoress, J.K. Rowling.
 * Joanne "Jo" Rowling is a British writer who writes under the pen name J.K. Rowling. Besides the Potter novels, she is also famous for her "rags to riches" life story. Interestingly, her first Harry Potter book read her name as Joanne Rowling after which her publisher Bloomsbury requested her to use her initials rather than disclosing her first name. The publisher was afraid that young boys might not buy books written by a female author. She had no middle name and derived the letter 'K' from her paternal grandmother Kathleen. And this was how the name, 'J.K. Rowling' was born.
 * After her first book in the Harry Potter series, 'Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone', Rowling received a grant from the Scottish Arts Council to enable her to continue writing. In 1997, the book won its first award, a Nestle Smarties Book Prize followed by the award for the Children's Book of the Year and then the Children's Book Award. In 1999, the book, 'Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban', won the Smarties Prize. J.K. Rowling was the first one making a hat trick of this award. 'Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire', released in 2000, made a record-breaking sale in UK and US. In the US, three million copies were sold during the first forty-eight hours, breaking all the sale records.

Some more interesting things about this author: __Found by Isaac. __
 * Her birthday is on the 31 of July.
 * She used to be an English teacher.
 * She has 3 children.
 * Harry Potter idea came to her on a train ride to Manchester.
 * She's sold over 1 billion books worldwide.
 * She has a little sister named Di.
 * She based Hermione Granger on herself.
 * She's British.
 * She hand writes her books.
 * She's good at keeping secrets.
 * <span style="background-color: #c0c0c0; color: #001cff; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">She's a great role model.
 * <span style="background-color: #c0c0c0; color: #001cff; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">She wrote her first book when she was six but the book didn't get published.
 * <span style="background-color: #c0c0c0; color: #001cff; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Her first book was about a rabbit called Rabbit.
 * <span style="background-color: #c0c0c0; color: #001cff; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">She is the first author billionaire.
 * <span style="background-color: #c0c0c0; color: #001cff; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">On the first day the last HP book sold over 8 million copies.
 * <span style="background-color: #c0c0c0; color: #001cff; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">She now lives in a castle.
 * <span style="background-color: #c0c0c0; color: #001cff; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">She first wrote "Harry Potter" to pay her gas bills.
 * <span style="background-color: #c0c0c0; color: #001cff; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">She helps run a charity.
 * <span style="background-color: #c0c0c0; color: #001cff; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">She was awarded O.B.E. (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) in 2000.
 * <span style="background-color: #c0c0c0; color: #001cff; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">She writes in a cafe or at home.
 * <span style="background-color: #c0c0c0; color: #001cff; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">She graduated from Exeter University.
 * <span style="background-color: #c0c0c0; color: #001cff; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">The day she signed her contract for the first "Harry Potter" novel, the publishing representative told her she would not make any money selling children's books.
 * <span style="background-color: #c0c0c0; color: #001cff; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Was almost barred from boarding a plane from the U.S. to the U.K. when airport security personnel demanded that her manuscript for her final book be screened or placed in her checked luggage. Rowling refused to give up the manuscript, which was bound with rubber bands.
 * <span style="background-color: #c0c0c0; color: #001cff; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">She finished writing Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows in a hotel room.
 * <span style="background-color: #c0c0c0; color: #001cff; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">She has blonde hair.