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.
Henry Lawson. 1867 - 1922. Australian writer. Henry Lawson is remembered today as Australia's poet of the people. His difficulties in life shaped his writings and are what makes them an inspiration to many Australians.Henry Lawson was born on 17 June 1867, on a goldfield in rural Grenfell, New South Wales.His father, Peter Lawson (born Niels Hertzberg Larsen) was a Norwegian sailor who settled in Australia. Henry's mother was Louisa Albury Lawson, who was a writer herself.Read her poetry.enry Lawson was born on 17 June 1867, on a goldfield in rural Grenfell, New South Wales.