Objective. This lesson is designed to introduce primary students to finding the main idea as a reading-comprehension strategy. The lesson uses the book Chrysanthemum, by Ken Henkes, and has students choose the main idea for sections of the story from a few possible choices.
Lawson is the transferred use of an English patronymic surname meaning âson of Laurence/Lawrenceâ from âLawâ which was a medieval pet form of Laurence.
Biography of Henry Lawson. Henry Lawson was an Australian writer and poet. Along with his contemporary Banjo Paterson, Lawson is among the best-known Australian poets and fiction writers of the colonial period and is often called Australia's greatest writer.He was the son of the poet, publisher and feminist Louisa Lawson.Early Life.Henry Lawson was born in a town on the Grenfell goldfields of New South Wales. His father was Niels Herzberg Larsen, a Norwegian-born miner who went to sea at 21, arrived in Melbourne in 1855 to join the gold rush.enry Lawson was an Australian writer and poet. Along with his contemporary Banjo Paterson, Lawson is among the best-known Australian poets and fiction writers of the colonial period and is often called Australia's greatest writer. He was the son of the poet, publisher and feminist Louisa Lawson. Early Life.