Name: ______

Date: ______Period: ______

Language Arts English 10

Latin and Central American Author Research

Nobel Prize Winner for Literature

As we approach the end of the quarter we will break into research groups based on your table groups. We will be researching the following authors, all Nobel Prize Winners for Literature:

·  Gabriela Mistral from Chile (1945)

·  Miguel Angel Asturias from Guatemala (1967)

·  Pablo Neruda from Chile (1971)

·  Gabriel Garcia Marquez from Colombia (1982)

·  Octavio Paz from Mexico (1990)

·  Derek Walcott from Saint Lucia (1992)

·  V.S. Naipaul from Trinidad (2001)

·  Mario Vargas Llosa from Peru (2010)

The Nobel Prize for Literature comes with great honor and accolades.

Background info: http://www.princeton.edu/~achaney/tmve/wiki100k/docs/Nobel_Prize_in_Literature.html

Use this link to the RRHS Library Research Databases for your research:

http://www.nthurston.k12.wa.us/Page/508

Within your research group decide with of the following research will you specialize in. Use the following pages of this document as a graphic organizer while completing your research. Save this document in your Student Drive (Common Homes). You will use this graphic organizer to prepare your presentations complete with a bibliography, using EasyBib.com.

The following specific roles are you options:

·  Page 2: Author’s Biographical Information (World Book)

·  Page 3: Author’s Contributions and Position to his/ her Country/Homeland (ProQuest Learning Literature)

·  Page 4: Author’s Literary Contributions (ProQuest Learning Literature)

·  Page 5: An Analysis of Author’s Nobel Prize Speech (see below)

Links to speeches: http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/

We will complete some our research in the library. Other research will be done on your own.

Additionally, all students will read and annotate a piece of literature by their author as well as complete an analysis of the text.

Finally, as part of your mid-term final, groups will present their information to the class the week of:_____October______.


Student Name:

Latin American author project: Author ______

Biographical Information: youth, family, personal history including education and awards

Sources insert additional boxes for each of your sources. / notes
Family
Youth and growing up
Education/awards

Summary:

What is the most interesting thing you learned about this person?

What work is the author most known for and why?


Student Name:

Latin American author project: Author ______

Authors’ contribution to and position in home country

Sources insert additional boxes for each of your sources. / notes
Role in home country
Contributions/influence in home country

Summary:

What is the most interesting thing you learned about this person?

What work is the author most known for and why?


Student Name:

Latin American author project: Author ______

Analysis of Nobel Prize (or other important) speech

Sources insert additional boxes for each of your sources. / notes
Topic
Audience
Purpose
Your favorite part of speech and why?
3 Key points in speech
1
2
3

Summary:

What is the most interesting thing you learned about this person?

What work is the author most known for and why?


Student Name:

Latin American author project: Author ______

The Author’s Literary Contributions

Sources insert additional boxes for each of your sources. / notes
Authors influence in genre
…form
…topic
Applicability/influence today in literature
Connections to other authors

Summary:

What is the most interesting thing you learned about this person?

What work is the author most known for and why?

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