Brainstorm and plan. 

Structure	Topic	Words and ideas to use
Introduction
Paragraph 2	Early life	May 21, 1799 Lightning Dad Poor - sell stuff
Paragraph 3	Discovering fossils	Curios  Lyme Regis Skull of a crocodile - brother - 12 years old Extinction was a new idea 1812 - ichtyosaur 1824 - plesiosaur Georges Cuvie
Paragraph 4	Later	1847 died of cancer
Conclusion

Mary anning was struck by a

lightning bolt but she still survived it.

Her Dad showed her how to dig up 

fossils and she looked for shawls to.

Her family was poor so she

sells her stuff for her family

to buy bread and food.

She was curious because she

didn't know what fossils were. 

Lyme Regis is a place she

used to find fossils.

She found the skull of a big

crocodile and some people

didn’t believe her.

They thought that she was lying

because other people didn’t know

what fossils were.

Georges Cuvie at the start he didn’t

believe her but at the end he did.

1812 - ichthyosaur 

1824-plesiosaur

After marry passed she became happy

1847 died of cancer