The following hero chart is intended to provide an opportunity to learn about men and women who have impacted American history in the past 1000 years. Sudying their biographies will reveal information about their characteristics, life experiences, values and heroic actions necessary to complete the student tasks. Each category represents types of activities that are linked to the California History Social Science Standards and are ways in which individuals have demonstrated leadership and excellence. It is recommended that groups of students choose a category and try to find common characteristics among the individuals in that group. In writing individual biographies you will want to do a search using metasearch engines such as Metacrawler or Dogpile. Use boolean searching techniques (name + biography) on Alta Vista in order to gather sufficient information. It is advisable to check at least two other sources and to carefully examine the authorship of each site to determine whether the facts listed are accurate. Don't forget to include a bibliography listing the web site name, web address, authors and page references if you are using internet sources. Refer to the example below for additional information. Source: May, 1998, From Now On, Jamie McKenzie,              "The New Plagiarism: Seven Antidotes to Prevent Highway Robbery in an Electronic Age."                http://fno.org/may98/cov98may.html Heroes Chart Presidents and First Ladies Political Figures and Leaders Inventors, Artists, and Authors Scientists, Doctors, and Nurses Explorers and Pioneers Athletes and Adventurers Thomas Jefferson Ben Franklin John Steinbeck George Washington Carver Juan Cabrillo Jackie Robinson Andrew Jackson Susan B. Anthony Dorothea Lange Marie Curie John C. Fremont Jesse Owens Abraham Lincoln Indira Gandhi Ansel Adams Louis Pasteur Jedediah Smith Amelia Earhart George Washington Mother Teresa Walt Disney Albert Einstein John Sutter Nellie Bly John Adams Martin Luther King, Jr. Thomas Edison Jonas Salk Junipero Serra Sacajawea Eleanor Roosevelt Frederick Douglass Maria Tallchief Sir Issac Newton Biddy Mason Jim Thorpe Franklin  Roosevelt Harriet Tubman Laura Ingalls Wilder Clara Barton John Smith Helen Keller Theodore Roosevelt Chief Tecumseh Wright Brothers Benjamin Banneker Molly Pitcher Christopher Columbus John F. Kennedy Chief Logan Samuel Clemens Leonardo DaVinci William Penn Jaques - Yves Cousteau Abagail Adams Chief John Ross Norman Rockwell Sally Ride William Bradford Henry Ford Dolly Madison John Marshall William Shakespeare Ellen Ochoa Daniel Boone Babe Ruth Dwight Eisenhower Sequoyah Diego Rivera Emmy Noether Lewis & Clark Joe Di Maggio

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