Description
Eighth grade is the time of revolutions in the modern world and Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Mohandas Gandhi, Cesar Chavez, and others fill the pages of this valuable resource with the stories that define the individuals who changed our world and our culture. Even if you are not a teacher in need of bold ideas for biographies, you will enjoy this book. It’s inspiring to read of those on whose shoulders we stand in our modern world.
Susan Cook has assembled the stories of twenty remarkable men and women from around the world including:
John Harrison – 18th Century England
Eli Whitney – 18th/19th Century United States
Sequoyah – 19th Century North America
Simon Bolivar – 19th Century South America
Benito Juarez – 19th Century Mexico
Frederick Douglass – 19th Century United States
Harriet Tubman – 19th/20th Century United States
Elizabeth Cady Stanton – 19th Century United States
Clara Barton – 19th/20th Century United States
Marie Curie – 19th/20th Century Poland/France
Janusz Korczak – 19th/20th Century Poland
Mohandas Gandhi – 19th/20th Century India
Hellen Keller – 19th/20th Century United States
Mao Zedong – 20th Century China
Nien Cheng – 20th Century China
Jomo Kenyatta – 20th Century Kenya
Nelson Mandela – 20th Century South Africa
Martin Luther King, Jr. – 20th Century United States
Cesar Chavez – 20th Century United States
Wangari Maathai – 20th/21st Century Kenya
Each chapter has one or more illustrations by students from the San Francisco Waldorf School.
