I AM...American History: 100 Mini Posters of Famous People in American History! - Softcover

Sunflower Education

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1937166090 ISBN 13: 9781937166090

Publisher: Sunflower Education, 2011

Synopsis

This unique collection of mini posters humanizes historical figures. Accompanying text is in the first person, quotations capture the essence of each individual's accomplishment, and each includes a section "Here's something you may not have known about me..." followed by a fun, down-to-earth fact, like that Abraham Lincoln was a wrestler, or that Eli Whitney started his own business at 14. Includes excellent ideas for a variety of interesting bulletin-board displays and classroom activities to maximize the pedagogical impact of these delightful posters. Posters of: Abigail Adams • John Adams • John Quincy Adams • Susan B Anthony • Neil A Armstrong • Clara Barton • Alexander Graham Bell • William Bradford • John Brown • William Jennings Bryan • John C Calhoun • Andrew Carnegie • Cesar Chavez • Henry Clay • Bill Clinton • Calvin Coolidge • James Fenimore Cooper • Francisco Vasquez de Coronado • Father Charles Coughlin • George Custer • Jefferson Davis • Jack Dempsey • Dorothea Dix • Frederick Douglass • WEB Du Bois • Amelia Earhart • Thomas Edison • Albert Einstein • Dwight D Eisenhower • Ralph Waldo Emerson • Enrico Fermi • F Scott Fitzgerald • Stephen Foster • Benjamin Franklin • Betty Friedan • William Lloyd Garrison • Ulysses S Grant • Alexander Hamilton • Ernest Hemingway • Herbert Hoover • Andrew Jackson • Thomas Jefferson • John Paul Jones • Helen Keller • Florence Kelley • John F Kennedy • Martin Luther King, Jr • General Robert E Lee • Meriwether Lewis • Sinclair Lewis • Abraham Lincoln • Charles Lindbergh • Benjamin Lundy • James Madison • Horace Mann • John Marshall • Thurgood Marshall • Cyrus McCormick • James Monroe • J P Morgan • Samuel F B Morse • Annie Oakley • Barack Obama • Sandra Day O'Connor • Thomas Paine • Rosa Parks • Frances Perkins • Ronald Reagan • Sally Ride • Jackie Robinson • John D Rockefeller • Eleanor Roosevelt • Franklin D Roosevelt • Sacajawea • Dred Scott • Upton Sinclair • Sitting Bull (Tatanka Yotanka) • Captain John Smith • Squanto • Elizabeth Cady Stanton • Harriet Beecher Stow • William Graham Sumner • William Howard Taft • Ida Tarbell • General Zachary Taylor • Henry David Thoreau • Bill Tilden • Harry S Truman • Frederick Jackson Turner • Mark Twain • Cornelius Vanderbilt • Amerigo Vespucci • George Washington • Booker T Washington • Eli Whitney • Walt Whitman • Orville Wright • Wilbur Wright • Woodrow Wilson • Brigham Young

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Review

"I Am...American History" is a great resource for all grade levels. The pictures are authentic and bring meaning to the person being studied....this is an easy-to-use book for teachers."
--Sharon M.

"The book of posters is good for almost any grade level. I used it when I taught second grade, I just had a sixth grade teacher that borrowed it and gave it back yesterday. She said it worked great!
--Dee A.

"I Am...American History and Who Am I?...seamlessly blend learning interesting facts about famous Americans with various guessing games that keep students engaged...."
--Melissa A.

"So many posters to choose from! And I love that they all have quotes and facts to go along with them."
--Marcie S.

"Interesting and my daughter reads one page a day. Nice, short and informative!"
--Barbara D.

Edition details

• Publisher: Sunflower Education
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1937166090
• ISBN 13: 9781937166090
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 208