Investigate a famous person's life

Classroom scenario: Investigate a famous person’s life.

Task : Report your findings on a handout.

Follow the steps:

Step 1: Choose a celebrity:

            1. Calamity Jane  

        or

            2. Roald Dahl

Step 2: Find information.

           Click on the links below:

1. Calamity Jane

http://www.calamity-jane.com/anglais/intro.htm

http://www.biography.com/people/calamity-jane-9234950

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/WWcalamity.htm

access this link from your PC at home:

http://videos.arte.tv/fr/videos/la_petite_histoire_de_calamity_jane-3572942.html

2. Roald Dahl

http://www.roalddahl.com/

(Biography: childhood, school, children’s author, passions...)

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001094/bio

http://www.biography.com/people/roald-dahl-9264648

Step 3: Use a search engine like "google" or "yahoo" to find other websites and other sources of information.

Step 4 (optional): If necessary, make a draft (brouillon) taking some notes in your copy book.

Step 5: Take the handout given by your professor. Write your full name, class and today’s date on it (in English please).

            Complete the clouds (nuages) with your findings (=data).

Step 6: Make a timeline (=chronology) with facts and dates.

Useful vocabulary

(s)he was born

(s)he grew up

(s)he went to school

(s)he got a job

(s)he married

(s)he died

Online dictionaries
Bilingue:
http://www.wordreference.com

Unilingue:
http://www.merriam-webster.com

Learn about Robert Louis Stevenson's life

Instructions:

- First, read the short biography of R. L. Stevenson, "The Life and Work of Robert Louis Stevenson".

- Then copy the questions below in your copy book.

- For each question, choose the correct answer - A, B, or C. 
- Finally, write the correct answer in your copy book.

1. The first idea for Treasure Island came from:
      a. a story about pirates.
      b. a map which Stevenson drew.
      c. Fanny's son, Lloyd.

2. Stevenson left Scotland forever because:
      a. the climate was bad for his illness.
      b. he wanted to defend the people of Samoa.
      c. his family hated Scotland.

3. Which is the best description of R.L. Stevenson?
      a. a writer for children who died before he finished his last book.
      b. a Scottish writer who married an American and wrote about his life.
      c. a great story teller famous for writting Treasure Island.

- Write a summary about R.L. Stevenson's life. (écris un résumé de la vie de R.L.  Stevenson).