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Biographies for Eighth Grade History: Twenty Remarkable Men and Women: DISCOUNT BOOK

USD $12.00 USD $7.80

If you love stories and the stories of great men and women and are looking to engage your teenagers with riveting tales of heroes, you need to look no further than this little tome! Twenty remarkable men and women have their life stories told in vivid and lively detail, briefly enough to fit into a main lesson.

Author: Susan Cook

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SKU: AW-BIO-PB-DISC Categories: Imperfect Books, Waldorf Books
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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.

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Weight 0.41 lbs
Dimensions 7 × 5 × 0.5 in

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