The Dreaded Book Report

The Dreaded Book Report...

So book reports are often heard to be true pains in the rear... but there are some interesting figures that can be done for Biographies and Autobiographies, and if you've not introduced the idea of what each is now is a great time! A great way to do it is to connect the dates to the birthdays of the person being read about. So here are some June Birthdays and some even have titles for the individuals celebrating on that day.

June 1 - America's favorite country bumpkin, Andy Griffith (grades 5-6)
June 3 - Josephine Baker (grades 6-8)
June 5 - Adam Smith (grades 6-8)
June 5 - John Maynard Keynes (grades 6-8)
June 6 - Cynthia Rylant (grades 4-6)
June 6 - Diego Velázquez (grades 4-6)
June 8 - Frank Lloyd Wright (grades 5-7)
June 9 - Dickie V, Dick Vitale (grades 5-8)
June 10 - Judy Garland (grades 5-6)
June 10 - Hattie McDaniel (grades 7-8)
June 11 - Robert Munsch (grades 4-6)
June 13 - Luis Walter Alvarez (grades 5-7)
June 14 - Harriet Beecher Stowe (grades 4-5)
June 15 - Edvard Grieg (grades 4-6)
June 15 - Erik Erikson (grades 5-7)
June 17 - Taking the World by Storm, Venus Williams (grades 6-7)
June 18 - Chris Van Allsburg (grades 5-7)
June 19 - Moe Howard (grades 4-6)
June 26 - Babe Didrikson Zaharias (grades 5-7)
June 28 - Esther Forbes: Love of the Past (grades 5-6)
June 29 - Slim Pickens (grades 6-7)
June 30 - Ed Yost, Father of Modern Hot Air Ballooning (grades 5-6)

Your students should find someone from this list easily... Have fun!