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You will be doing research and writing about important people in history whose names are not as familiar to most people.
What will people want to know about these people or groups?
What will people want to know about these people or groups?
What makes this person or these people special or interesting?
What kind of effect did this person or these people have on the world? other people?
What are the adjectives you would most use to describe this person or these people?
What examples from this person's life illustrate those qualities?
What events shaped or changed this person's life?
Did this person overcome any obstacles? Take risks? Get lucky?
Would the world be better or worse if this person or these people hadn't lived? How and why?
Source: https://www.infoplease.com/homework-help/homework-center-how-write-biography
Select one of the following people or groups to research:
Select one of the following people or groups to research:
Rudolf Anderson (U2 pilot from Greenville, SC shot down during the Cuban Missile Crisis)
John D. Bulkeley (received the Medal of Honor for helping evacuate General Douglas MacArthur and Philippine President Quezon from Manila Bay to the southern Philippines)
Grace Hopper (female computer programmer, coined term debugging)
Maurice Ralph Hilleman (microbiologist who developed over 40 vaccines)
Malala (Pakistani girl who was shot while speaking out in favor of educating girls)
Tony Mendez (CIA agent who went on a secret mission to rescue employees of the embassy in Iran who were in hiding)
Navajo Code Talkers (bilingual Native Americans who communicated battle plans during World War II)
Alice Paul (woman who worked to win women the right to vote)
Rick Rescorla (ordered the evacuation of the South Tower of the World Trade Center on September 11)
Joseph John Rochefort (an intelligence analyst who helped decode Japanese military and diplomatic messages during World War II)
Tuskegee Airmen (America’s first black military pilots)
Dr. Mary Walker (the first woman awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for her work as a surgeon during the Civil War)
Women Airforce Service Pilots (women who delivered airplanes, towed gunnery targets, transported people and equipment, and tested airplanes that had been repaired during World War II)
Women's Army Auxiliary Corps /Women's Army Corps (U.S. Army unit created during World War II that permitted women to serve in noncombat positions)
Eleanor Roosevelt
Women of NASA (Mary Jackson, Katherine Globe,...)
John R. Fox (AA Soldier of WW2, Sacrificed Unit)
Radia Perlman (Mother of the internet)
Charles Richard Drew (AA Physicians Developed Blood Bank)
Women’s Land Army
Julian Snipe (AA Soldier from WW2)
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