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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.

 

NoodleTools

Use this to cite your sources.  Use MLA Starter

Biography in Context

Kids InfoBits

This is a database.

SIRS Discoverer


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Elementary Research Guide

Click on the the link below.  Scroll down to search for Elementary Student Research Database.

Primary Search

Click on the link below.  Scroll down to search for the Primary Search database.

Make sure to cliick on Full-Text

Famous People

Musicians

Elvis Presley

Ella Fitzgerald

Nat King Cole

Ray Charles

Scientists

Isaac Newton

Ben Franklin

Louis Pasteur

James Watt

Marie Curie

Plato

Galileo

DaVinci

Enrico Fermi   

Jonas Salk

Rachel Carson

Grace Hopper

Nikola Tesla

Athletes

Jim Thorpe

Babe Didrikson Zaharias

Jesse Owens

Arthur Ashe

Billie Jean King

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

Anne Frank

Malala Yousafazai

Elon Musk

Audrey Hepburn

Florence Nightingale

Jane Goodall

Famous Americans

George Washington Carver

Helen Keller

Coretta Scott King