How They Croaked



Bragg, G.  (2011).  How they creaked:  the awful ends of the awfully famously.  New York, NY:  Walker & Company.

Bragg discusses the lives and gory of very famous people, such as George Washington and Cleopatra.  She gives us the gory details of how they really died with a bit of humor.  After the death description of each person, the author gives a facts and statistics relevant to that person's death.

Since this book is has very strange deaths for these famous people, I think that the students would have fun researching the some of the famous people mentioned int he book and try to prove the book right.  They would need to write an comparative essay with their findings and follow the writing process.

7th Grade Writing TEKS - Reporting Category 1 - 17 A RS -write a multi-paragraph essay to convey information about a topic that (i) presents effective introductions and concluding paragraphs; (ii) contains a clearly stated purpose or controlling idea; (iii) is logically organized with appropriate facts and details and includes no extraneous information or inconsistencies; (iv) accurately synthesizes ideas from several sources; and (v) uses a variety of sentence structures, rhetorical devices, and transitions to link paragraphs.