Beatrix Potter
Where did a mycologist friend present a scientific paper written by Beatrix Potter because women weren't allowed?
The Linnean Society for natural history and taxonomy
Where did Maya Angelou win a scholarship to study drama and dance?
What did Sandra Cisneros attend after college to improve her fiction writing?
The Iowa Writers Workshop
TWO PART QUESTION:
1). What plants did Beatrix Pottter collect and illustrate in scientific detail?
2). What is a mycologist?
1). Fungi (mushrooms)
2). A scientist that studies fungi
Who said, "Perhaps all memory is a chance at storytelling and every story brings us closer to revealing ourselves to ourselves."
Sandra Cisneros
Where did Beatrix Potter buy her own farm after she got rich writing Peter Rabbit books?
In the Coniston Lake District of England
In what year did Maya Angelou publish I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings?
1969
Where did Sandra Cisneros teach former high school drop outs?
The Latino Alternative High School in Chicago, Illinois
What advice does Sandra Cisneros give to young writers?
Setting the right mood is important
How many Peter Rabbit stories did Beatrix Potter write over 30 years?
22
What did Beatrix Potter do with her land after she died?
She gave it to the National Trust as a wilderness area, preserving it for the animals
1). In what year and where was Maya Angelou born?
2). In what year and where did Maya Angelou die?
1). 1928 in St. Louis, Missouri
2). 2014 in Winston-Salem, North Carolina
What kind of book was The House on Mango Street?
True fiction
What did Beatrix Potter do with her pets when they died?
She boiled the bones and put their skeletons back together to study them
How many Peter Rabbit books did Beatrix Potter self-publish and give away to family and friends?
250
TWO PART QUESTION:
1). Where and in what year was Beatrix Potter born?
2). Where and what year did Beatrix Potter die?
1). 1966 in London, England
2). 1943 (she hit a tree!) and died in Castle Cottage, Near Sawrey England
Why did Vivian Baxter follow the trolley through the streets of San Fancisco in her car, even at 4am?
She was worried about her daughter, Maya Angelou, who was driving the trolly
What book did Sandra Cisneros publish in 1995?
Woman Hollering Creek and other stories
What did Beatrix Potter do in 1939?
Established a wildlife preservation area
Who does Sandra Cisneros say to imagine sitting across from when you edit your writing?
your enemy
What sotry characters INFLUENCED Beatrix Potter when she was young?
Brer Rabbit and Uncle Remus
What did Maya Angelou's Grandmother Henderson do for a career?
She ran her own store
What does Sandra Cisneros consider to be her child?
Her writing
Where and in what year was Sandra Cisneros born?
1954 (she came through the door!) in Chicago, Illinois (where Mrs. Tschanz is from!)
On what did J.K> Rowling use to write her ideas for the names of the Hogwarts houses while she was on an airplane?
A napkin