History Makers (Groups 1 ? 3)
History Makers
Reading Level: 9
Interest Level: 9-12
This sparkling series illuminates several figures who altered the direction of
world events and revolutionized viewpoints and conversations. Their biographies
expand on the key details of their lives and successes by delving into the
personal and world events that shaped them and their philosophies. Readers get
to know the world?s most influential and lasting faces through this educational
and vividly designed series. Each book contains evidence-based critical analysis
of what made the historical figures enduring and revolutionary.
Each
Book Contains:
? Chapters open with direct quotes in the words of these great
figures, their contemporaries, and people who knew them intimately
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Photographs and illustrations contextualizing their life and the time
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Visual and textual primary sources that support the modern portrait
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Evidence-based critical analysis of what made the historical figures enduring
and revolutionary
Curriculum Connections:
? Immediate and long-term causes
and effects of events and opinion in the time period
? Patterns of public and
world thought and behavior
? Political, social, and philosophical themes in
the figure's life and time period
? History unfolding both chronologically and by
correlation
