Sharon McKay is a script editor and an award winning author of 14 non-fiction books. Charlie Wilcox was her first novel for young adults. Charlie Wilcox has already been sought out to be a television show and/or a movie.
When Sharon McKay was younger she failed grade three. Her family moved around a lot so she was not in any one school for very long. McKay is originally from Newfoundland, but she now lives in Ontario in a log house made of red cedar. She is married and has two sons, two dogs and a cat.
Questions:
1. Why do you think Sharon McKay would chose to write a story like this?
2. It is often said that it is easier to write what you know. Do you think that McKay’s life events could have shaped her writing? If so, in what ways?
3. If you were to write a book based on your life experiences so far, what might it be called? Why?
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1.I think Sharon McKay would chose to have wrote a story like this because she wanted to show people what it was like to go to war.
2. I think that her life events could have chose her to write a story like this.
3. If i were to write about my life so far it would be called... school. I would call it school cause thats where I am the most wether i want to me or not.
1. I think she wrote a book like this to show what it was like in 1915.
2. They could have a bit to do with her life maybe from when she was younger, maybe when she was younger she had to get sent away from her family, or maybe she was a really nice & caring child like Charlie was.
3. I think my book would be called; “hectic teenage years” .
1. I think that Sharon McKay would choose to write a story like this because it was excitng.
2. I don't think that her life events shaped her writing, she probably did research on this topic.
3. I think that my book would be called "The Life Of An Islander".
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