American Heroes

During the 2nd nine weeks, our reading will focus on nine great Americans. Each week we will pick one American to study. We will read and discuss the lives of Americans who expanded people's rights and freedoms in a democracy. We will also study their character traits. The nine Americans are: Paul Revere (independence), Frederick Douglass (civil rights), Susan B. Anthony (women's rights), Mary McLeod Bethune (education), Franklin D. Roosemelt (New Deal and WW II), Eleanor Roosevelt (United Nations and human rights), Thurgood Marshall (civil rights), Lyndon B. Johnson (Great Society and voting rights), and Cesar Chavez (worker's rights). We will also look at the social barriers, restrictions, and obstacles that these historical figures had to overcome and describe how they overcame them. We will begin this series with Eleanor Roosevelt.