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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sure.  There's an author project, where you choose an author and read three books (not part of a series) that the author wrote, plus one book-length biography of the author.  The level of author is middle school/young adult.

Then you do 7 or 8 things related to the author -- you can pick from a longer list for some of them.  Some are more artistic (create a poster etc.) and some are more academic (identifying thematic elements).   You write a couple of essays that are several pages long, and make a presentation about your author.  The project goes on for a couple of months, with due dates for draft and final items scattered throughout.

It's a fantastic, in-depth project!  A lot of it is done in class during specific working times, but there is work done at home too.  And while none of the individual elements is difficult, the hard part is managing your schedule and not leaving everything until the last minute.

There are similar projects where you imagine yourself as a kid in the country of your ancestors and write/illustrate book about it, do an in-depth and multi-step project on a state you choose, and do a project on a native American tribe.

While this is going on, there are regular assignments in reading, math, science, etc.[/quote]

Is this 4th or 5th grade? What kind of projects they do in science and social studie?[/quote]

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