A Life Worth Knowing

1. A Life Worth Knowing Research Process

2. Resources • Because the internet offers ample resources at our fingertips, (both good and bad), I have already filtered through some sites to assist you in your research • In addition to the following links, you should also be using the “Biography in Context” Database found on the school’s Library/Media subpage • Biography in Context Database

3. Harper Lee • www.harperlee.com • http://www.biography.com/people/harper-lee-9377021 • http://www.neabigread.org/books/mockingbird/readers-guide/about-the-author/

4. Thanhh Lai • http://www.harpercollins.com/authors/36544/Thanhha_Lai/index.aspx • http://nieonline.com/star_telegram/downloads/minipage/mp35_120901tab_bw.pdf • http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2011/11/29/142905830/book-award-winners-tale-echoes-those-told-by-other-vietnamese-refugees

5. Sojourner Truth • http://www.biography.com/people/sojourner-truth-9511284 • http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/sojourner-truth • http://womenshistory.about.com/od/sojournertruth/a/sojourner_truth_bio.htm

6. Miep Gies • http://www.miepgies.nl/en/ • http://www.biography.com/people/miep-gies-21349765#awesm=~oCPFfq4c3qQ8Tv • http://www.annefrank.org/en/Anne-Frank/All-people/Miep-Gies/

7. Shirley Chisholm • http://www.biography.com/people/shirley-chisholm-9247015 • http://www.nwhm.org/education-resources/biography/biographies/shirley-anita-chisholm/ • http://www.history.com/topics/shirley-chisholm

8. Jane Goodall • http://www.janegoodall.org/ • http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2010/10/jane-goodall/quammen-text • http://www.biography.com/people/jane-goodall-9542363#awesm=~oBvkq7Q5yEEBfO

9. Jacques Cousteau • http://www.cousteau.org/who/the-captain/ • http://www.biography.com/people/jacques-cousteau-9259496#awesm=~oCKH6sZe4gC9c2 • http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/06/100611-jacques-cousteau-100th-anniversary-birthday-legacy-google/

10. Stephen Hawking • http://www.hawking.org.uk/ • http://www.biography.com/people/stephen-hawking-9331710#awesm=~oCKIwTwqw2Qfmm • http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052748704206804575467921609024244

11. Rachel Carson • http://www.rachelcarson.org/ • http://www.biography.com/people/rachel-carson-9239741#awesm=~oCKJP1zoz8yy8k • http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/databank/entries/btcars.html

12. Robert Oppenheimer • http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/bomb/peopleevents/pandeAMEX65.html • http://www.atomicarchive.com/Bios/Oppenheimer.shtml • http://www.biography.com/people/j-robert-oppenheimer-9429168#awesm=~oCKKAODnMy3UVt

13. Isaac Newton • http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/newton_isaac.shtml • http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/biography/Newton.html • http://web.clas.ufl.edu/users/ufhatch/pages/01-courses/current-courses/08sr-newton.htm

14. Pythagoras of Samos • http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/history/Biographies/Pythagoras.html • http://www.mathopenref.com/pythagoras.html • http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/pythagoras/

15. Ulysses S. Grant • http://www.mscomm.com/~ulysses/ • http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/presidents/ulyssessgrant • http://www.biography.com/people/ulysses-s-grant-9318285#awesm=~oCPHGOuur9boN7

16. Clara Barton • http://www.redcross.org/about-us/history/clara-barton • http://www.biography.com/people/clara-barton-9200960#awesm=~oCPIbovQKkQDio • http://www.civilwar.org/education/history/biographies/clara-barton.html

17. Abraham Lincoln • http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/presidents/abrahamlincoln • http://www.biography.com/people/abraham-lincoln-9382540#awesm=~oCPIBVKbPjBgEv • http://www.history.com/topics/us-presidents/abraham-lincoln

18. Upton Sinclair • http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americannovel/timeline/sinclair.html • https://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0920.html • http://www.ssa.gov/history/sinclair.html

19. Ida Tarbell • http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-woman-who-took-on-the-tycoon-651396/?no-ist • http://www.greatwomen.org/women-of-the-hall/search-the-hall-results/details/2/155-Tarbell • http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/biography/rockefellers-tarbell/

20. General John J. Pershing • http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/johnjose.htm • http://www.firstworldwar.com/bio/pershing.htm • http://shs.umsystem.edu/historicmissourians/name/p/pershing/

21. Eleanor Roosevelt • http://www.firstladies.org/biographies/firstladies.aspx?biography=33 • http://www.biography.com/people/eleanor-roosevelt-9463366#awesm=~oCQvM04EQfVJAR • http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/first-ladies/eleanorroosevelt

22. James Meredith • http://www.visionaryproject.org/meredithjames/ • http://www.usmarshals.gov/history/miss/02.htm • http://www.biography.com/people/james-meredith-9406314#awesm=~oCQycVnGPuxU63

23. Langston Hughes • https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/langston-hughes • http://www.biography.com/people/langston-hughes-9346313#awesm=~oCQyGV45Yt3R5d • http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/langston-hughes

24. Louis Armstrong • http://www.redhotjazz.com/louie.html • https://www.louisarmstronghouse.org/ • http://www.biography.com/people/louis-armstrong-9188912#awesm=~oCQCgi3y777mpg

25. Choose your subject! • I will allow a few people to research an important figure of their choice, but it must be preapproved by me ASAP!