My Hero My Hero

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Mrs Bonney’s ClassMrs Bonney’s Class

Lynnwood ElementaryLynnwood Elementary

Spring 2008Spring 2008

Part 3Part 3

George Washington Carver by Kyle

• George Washington Carver is a scientist.

• He loved to study plants and insects outdoors.

•George Washington Carver was a hero because he taught people how to be better farmers.

•He started as a slave and got free in 1865. People called him the plant doctor and later became a “plant teacher”. He was the first African American teacher at the Iowa Agricultural college,

Sacagawea by Katie Swan

•Sacagawea is a hero because she helped Lewis and Clark with the expedition to find their way in a new land.

•She had to take care of a baby as well as helping out with the expedition. I chose Sacagawea as my hero because she helped Lewis and Clark make the expedition successful and have good relations with the Indians.

Sacagawea By Katie S.

Sacagawea Time Line

Sacagaweas possible date

she was born.

Hidatsa captured

Sacagawea and was

traded to a man from Canada.

Lewis and Clark found Sacagawea in

Idaho. The Sacagawea

United State coin came

out with her on it

Sacagawea possible

death date.Sacagawea

son was born they named him Pomp.

Sacagawea returns to

Fort Mandan.Sacagawea got

married to Charponneaw.

1789or

1790

1800

1804

1805

1806

1804

1812

2000

Sacagawea is a hero beacause she helped Lewis and Clark with the expedition to find things in a new land.

Time line by Katie

Source: http://www.crystalinks.com/shoshone.html

Sacagawea by Adria

• Sacagawea is my hero because she is the great American Pathfinder

•She was able to be calm and help the expedition to reach its goals. I chose her because she could speak a different language like me. Also because I thinks she was very brave.

•Source http://www.pbs.org/lewisandclark/inside/saca.html

Lewis and Clark by Justin M.

1770 William Clark born in Alberle

Country,Virginia.

William Clark`s Time line

By Justin Malig

1782William Clark

becomes a young explorer.

1789Joins Militia.

1803Lewis and Clark are to find out what the louisiana looks like.

1803Starts the epidition.

1806Expidition heads

home.

1813Becomes teritoriial

govener.

1803Discovers the

louisiana purchase.

1820William Clarks

wife died.

1838William Clarks

second wife dies.

1838William Clark

dies in st. louis.

Lewis and Clark are heroes to me because they discovered the Louisiana purchase.

Meriwether Lewis by Aaron S.

• Meriwether Lewis is an explorer hero

•Meriwether Lewis became a famous explorer when he travelled west from Missouri to the Pacific Ocean and back with his good friend William Clark. They had a woman named Sacagawea on the expedition with them.

•I chose Meriwether Lewis as my hero because he is a traveller like me and he inspires me to be like him when I grow up.

Mother Theresa by Jonathan …

• Mother Theresa is a hero because devoted her life to care for the poorest sick and hungry people and she never asked for anything back.

•Mother Teresa won the Nobel Peace Prize. She opened an adoption house for homeless kids and gave out free medicine for those in need.

•Mother Theresa was a hero because she helped lots of people and tried to make their life happier.

Mother Theresa by Jonathan

Mother Teresa

a life of kindness

She was born in Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu. Her birthday is August-26-

1910.

Agnes learned to be kind and be helpful so she went to church every day. She

also gave food to the poor.

When she was 18 she left home to be a nun at calcutta

india. She opened a orphanage for kids that were

abandond.

She won the nobel peace prize for her effort

and hard work to help the sick

She helped people get a good education

She delighted thousands of

people before they died.

She really enjoyed helping kids and

adults

She died visiting the pope John Paul #2 while having

a heart attack

Mother Teresea was a hero to me because she helped lots of people and made them happy before they

died.

Picture from Google

Picture from Google

Picture from Google

Picture from google

Picture from google

Harriet Tubman by Dolores

•Harriet Tubman is my hero because she was first a slave and wanted to helped other people after she got her own freedom. She is a woman of great courage. She started the underground railroad that allowed many slaves to gain their freedom and that is just amazing to me

HARRIET TUBMAN

Harriett Tubman

Harriet Tubman was

born in dorchester

county.

Harriet Tubmanwas hit on the head with a heavy metal

weight while helping a slave

esape.

Harriet married John tubman a freeman they coud'nt get

married legally so they jumped

the broom.Harriet Tubman ran

away from the brodess

plantation which was a

free state.

IN 2003 NEW YORK goevenor George E. Pataki sined into a law

bill that established

march 10 as a day of

commemoration to honor a true

american heroine/ Harriet Tubman

Harriet Tubman died of

pneumonia on march 10 in

auburn, NEW YORK.

GEORGE E PATAKI

HARRIET TUBMAN

Patricia Polacco by Sasha

• Patricia Polacco is a writer hero

•Patricia Ann Barber. Her married name is Polacco

•She learned to read, write and do math despite her dyslexia and now she is writing books for children

• I chose Patricia Polacco as my hero because she taught me to be strong no matter what

Abe Lincoln By David H.

Amberham Lincoln

Abe Lincoln was born in

kentucky 1809.

birth

By David H.

childhood teenager

He moved to Washington

Young Adultmiddle

age

Death

When he was a kid his mom

died

ABE Lincoln was working

in a farm

In 1836 ABE

Lincoln became a loyoer

He got shot in Aprll 15

Abe Lincoln by Riwaaz

aberham lincoln time line

birth

1809 near Hodgenville, Kentucky.

child hood

was 8 years old. He helped his father build a log cabin which was ready to live in during the winter of 1817.

teenager

Abraham loved to read, but books were scarce on

the Indiana frontier. Abraham would walk several miles just to

borrow a book.

In 1818 aberham lincoln mother died when he

was 9 years old he was very lonely until his dad got maried again in 1819

Lincoln grew to be a tall and strong teenager. In 1828, at 19, he helped

take a flatboat down the Ohio River to New

Orleans

In 1836, Lincoln became a lawyer. He first practiced law in Springfield,

Illinois.

Lincoln met Mary Todd, a lively girl from

Kentucky. They were married in November of 1842 when Lincoln was

33 years old

aberham lincoln had four sons there names

where Robert, Edward, William, and

Thomas

death

April 15.

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young adult\ middle age