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Landisville Intermediate Center: Uptown Writing Project

Famous Person Research

 After reading informational text about ___________________, write an essay that describes three specific character traits displayed through your person’s actions.  Cite evidence to support each character trait.

 

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NoodleTools

Use this to cite your sources.  Use MLA Starter

Kids InfoBits

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SIRS Discoverer

Click on the first letter of your person's last name.  


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Grolier

Click on the elementary tab.  Search by your person's name.

Famous People

Musicians

Elvis Presley

Ella Fitzgerald

Nat King Cole

Ray Charles

Scientists

Thomas Edison

Isaac Newton

Ben Franklin

Louis Pasteur

James Watt

Albert Einstein

Marie Curie

Plato

Galileo

DaVinci

Enrico Fermi   

Jonas Salk

Athletes

Jackie Robinson

Jim Thorpe

Babe Didrikson Zaharias

Jesse Owens

Arthur Ashe

Authors

Louisa May Alcott

Roald Dahl

A.A. Milne

J.R.R. Tolkien

E.B. White

Famous Foreign People

Winston Churchill

Mother Teresa

Gandhi

Nelson Mandela

Margaret Thatcher

Simon Bolivar