Worshipping God and the place of morals in society
Articles
"Moral courage: an inquiry into the hearts of kings" by Andrew Groft
http://newsletter.gw.edu/archive/FeaturedArticle/2
People to study
Joan of Arc
Mother Theresa
Joseph Smith
George Washington
Ghandi
Buddha
Books
"The Hiding Place" by Corrie Ten Boom
"The Boy in the Striped Pajamas" by Boyne
"The Alchemist" by Coehlo
"I am David" by Anne Holm
"Monkey" or "Journey to the West" Yu
"The Scarlett Letter" by Hawthorne
"The Screwtape Letters" by Lewis
"Mere Christianity" by Lewis
"Les Miserables" by Hugo
Showing posts with label biographies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label biographies. Show all posts
Saturday, May 25, 2013
Scientists, Mathematicians and Eureka books
This page is continually being updated. PLEASE add to it, either as an author or in the reply section to benefit other groups.
Books and Websites for finding people to study:
-Mathematicians are People, too Vol. 1 and 2
-The Math Book
-Go Figure!
-Fermat's Enigma
-Engineers: http://heritage.imeche.org/peopleevents
-Dr. Posin's Giants: out of print but amazing.
-"Great Scientists" from the DK Eyewitness Books series: It is more just a quick overview of each scientist with some of their more notable achievements. It only includes 30 scientists from Aristotle to Stephen Hawking and each get a two page spread. So it isn't complete but I thought it would be easy to give a quick overview, take only about 5 minutes to read everything on the two pages. But it would create a common groundwork for everyone to build on. It also has a nice variation of scientists - ie biology, chemistry, physics focuses.
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Mathematicians/Scientists/Concepts by "era"
Ancient World (beginning-300 ad)
Aristotle
Thales
Pythagoras
Archimedes
Hypatia
Hebrew (can be used any time period, obviously :).)
Euclid (330 bc) geometry
Medieval Times (300 ad-1200 ad)
-Omar Khayyam, 11th century Persian mathematician and astronomer: http://www.okonlife.com/poems/page3.htm poet, with several great themes, amongst which, God as the potter, choosing one's path...)
Books and Websites for finding people to study:
-Mathematicians are People, too Vol. 1 and 2
-The Math Book
-Go Figure!
-Fermat's Enigma
-Engineers: http://heritage.imeche.org/peopleevents
-Dr. Posin's Giants: out of print but amazing.
-"Great Scientists" from the DK Eyewitness Books series: It is more just a quick overview of each scientist with some of their more notable achievements. It only includes 30 scientists from Aristotle to Stephen Hawking and each get a two page spread. So it isn't complete but I thought it would be easy to give a quick overview, take only about 5 minutes to read everything on the two pages. But it would create a common groundwork for everyone to build on. It also has a nice variation of scientists - ie biology, chemistry, physics focuses.
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Mathematicians/Scientists/Concepts by "era"
Ancient World (beginning-300 ad)
Aristotle
Thales
Pythagoras
Archimedes
Hypatia
Hebrew (can be used any time period, obviously :).)
Euclid (330 bc) geometry
Medieval Times (300 ad-1200 ad)
-Omar Khayyam, 11th century Persian mathematician and astronomer: http://www.okonlife.com/poems/page3.htm poet, with several great themes, amongst which, God as the potter, choosing one's path...)
(From the Layton Vanguard group)
Watch the following link: Occam's Razor http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XEA3k_QIKo
-Medieval Translators and Measurements:
Boethius http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Biographies/Boethius.html
Adelard of Bath http://www.adelard.com/about/original_adelard.html
Gherard of Cremona http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Gherard.html
Thomas Bradwardine http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Biographies/Bradwardine.html
The Journey of Al & Gebra to the Land of Algebra
Galen and the Gateway to Medicine by Bendick
Fascinating Fibonacci's by Trudi Hammel Garland (Leonard of Pisa or Fibonacci-Italy 1180)
Bhaskara (1114 a.d.) first systematic explanation of arabic figures
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Early Modern Times (1300-1750) Age of Exploration
-Application of the compass in the western world and beginning of study of electromagnetism
-Madhava of Sangmagrama: (1340 India) pi and infinite series; founder of school of astronomy and mathematics
-Newton (1642 England) motion, gravitation, light, color, calculus (an interesting contrasting classic to this might be "Gulliver's Travels," which is something of a satire on Newton's "Principia"
-Napier (1550 Scotland)-trigonometry, logarithms, "mathemagician" magic :)
-Galileo (1564 Italy) astronomer; scientific method
-Pi (The Math Book, pg 110) fun to do in March with Pi Day, 3/14
-Pascal (1623 France) religious, mathematics, physics and science; pascal's triangle
-Euler (1707 Swiss) geometry, analysis (he was blind--amazing mental math!), topology (konigsburg bridge dilemma)
-Gerolamo Cardano (Italian 1501): mathematician, physician, astrologer; negative/imaginary numbers; probability
-René Descartes (1596 France)-mathematical connections, links in nature, geometry
-Fermat- (1601 France) layer, hobby of mathematics, geometry, proof, games, probability "Fermat's Enigma"
-Leeuwenhoek (1632 Dutch) lens maker, made first microscope, discovered microbes, persisted to work on his passion while employed in other occupations (De Kruif's "Microbe Hunters")
-Spallanzani (1729 Italy)-asked lots of questions, examined things, patiently proved that the concept of "spontaneous generation" was false, "Spallanzani was triumphant, but then he did the curious thing that only born scientists ever do--he tried to beat his own idea, his darling theory--by experiments he honestly and shrewdly planned to defeat himself. That is science! That is the strange self-forgetting spirit of a few rare men, those curious men to whom truth is more dear than their own cherished whims and wishes." (ibid, pg 37) Another great quote, "I have proved that there is a law and order int he science of animals, just as there is in the working of the stars." (pg 42) He went on expeditions collecting natural specimen.
-Treviso Arithmetic: European arithmetic text that discusses economics, shows need for a common economic denominator in coinage, currency, interest, and measurements. (The Math Book pg 108)
-Golden Ratio: so cool!
-Copernicus
-1714 Faranheit and the mercury thermometer
-"The Longitude Prize" a book about inventors and sea-navigation/clocks
-Mendeleyev:
Leads
the reader on a delightful and absorbing journey through the ages, on
the trail of the elements of the Periodic Table as we know them today.
He introduces the young reader to people like Von Helmont, Boyle, Stahl,
Priestly, Cavendish, Lavoisier, and many others, all incredibly diverse
in personality and approach, who have laid the groundwork for a search
that is still unfolding to this day. The first part of Wiker's witty and
solidly instructive presentation is most suitable to middle school age,
while the later chapters are designed for ages 12-13 and up, with a
final chapter somewhat more advanced.
1750-1900
-Lagrange (1736-France)
-Maria Agnesi (1718- Italy) abstract mathematics, made calculus textbook, dedicated to service to others--so much that it superceded her love of mathematics, importance of women getting an education,
-Benjamin Banneker (1731 African-American mathematician)-compiled almanacs, did surveying (great one to go with George Washington, also a surveyor)
-Biographies from "Brave Companions" by McCullough
-Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz (May 28, 1807 – December 14, 1873) was a Swiss paleontologist, glaciologist, geologist and a prominent innovator in the study of Earth's natural history. He grew up in Switzerland and became a professor of natural history at University of Neuchâtel. Later, he accepted a professorship at Harvard University in the United States.
-Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt (
listen (help·info); September 14, 1769 – May 6, 1859) was a Prussian geographer, naturalist and explorer, and the younger brother of the Prussian minister, philosopher and linguist Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767–1835). Humboldt's quantitative work on botanical geography laid the foundation for the field of biogeography.
Between 1799 and 1804, Humboldt travelled extensively in Latin America, exploring and describing it for the first time in a manner generally considered to be a modern scientific point of view. His description of the journey was written up and published in an enormous set of volumes over 21 years. He was one of the first to propose that the lands bordering the Atlantic Ocean were once joined (South America and Africa in particular).
-Faraday (1831)
-Kepler (See Whitehead's "Intro to Mathematics" page 28-30)
-Galvani (1780) and Volta (1792) study of electricity
1900-present
Biographies from "Brave Companions" by McCullough:
"Long-Distance Vision" is about the experiences and literary works of several early aviators, including Charles Lindbergh, Antoine de Saint Exupéry, and Beryl Markham.
"Steam Road to El Dorado" is about the construction of the original Panama Railway in the 1850s.
"The Builders" concerns the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge in the 1870s, and particularly the life of engineer John A. Roebling and his son, Washington Roebling.
"The Treasure from the Carpentry Shop" concerns the rediscovery of the original plans for the Brooklyn Bridge in 1969.
"The Lonely War of a Good Angry Man", written in 1969, concerns the destructive environmental impact of strip mining in eastern Kentucky, and profiles Harry M. Caudill, local author and anti-strip mining political activist.
"Miriam Rothschild" is about the English zoologist and entomologist Miriam Rothschild.
BOOKS not mentioned above:
"String, Straight Edge and Shadow"
"Beginner's Guide to Constructing the Universe"
"Go Figure!" (read it all carefully!)
"Mathematicians are People, too" vol. 1 and 2
Free Choice (and any other approved reading—through mentor)
"The Phantom Tollbooth"
"Archimedes Door of Science"
"My Side of the Mountain"
The Warlord series (counts as 1): do the expts.
"Mere Christianity" by C.S. Lewis
"Brave Companions" by McCullough
"Microbe Hunters"
"Life of Fred" (any in series)
"Men and Mathematics" by Bell
"Elegant Universe"-video
"Flatland" "Fermat's Enigma"
"Evolution: is it science or faith?"
"On Numbers" by Asimov
"Carry On, Mr. Bowditch" by Latham
"The Disappearing Spoon"
"Time"
"Introduction to Mathematics" by Whitehead
"Number Devil"
"Cosmos"--video...
"All mimzy were the borrogoves"
"A Swiftly tilting planet"
"Hatchet"
"Scientific Discoveries that Strengthen Faith"
Complete any Saxon Math book
"Donald Duck in Mathematic land"
"E=mc2" video (see Jordan for details)
"The Number Devil"
"The Longitude Prize"
"Microbe Hunter"
"The Mystery of the Periodic Table"
Watch the following link: Occam's Razor http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XEA3k_QIKo
-Medieval Translators and Measurements:
Boethius http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Biographies/Boethius.html
Adelard of Bath http://www.adelard.com/about/original_adelard.html
Gherard of Cremona http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Gherard.html
Thomas Bradwardine http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Biographies/Bradwardine.html
The Journey of Al & Gebra to the Land of Algebra
Galen and the Gateway to Medicine by Bendick
Fascinating Fibonacci's by Trudi Hammel Garland (Leonard of Pisa or Fibonacci-Italy 1180)
Bhaskara (1114 a.d.) first systematic explanation of arabic figures
***********
Early Modern Times (1300-1750) Age of Exploration
-Application of the compass in the western world and beginning of study of electromagnetism
-Madhava of Sangmagrama: (1340 India) pi and infinite series; founder of school of astronomy and mathematics
-Newton (1642 England) motion, gravitation, light, color, calculus (an interesting contrasting classic to this might be "Gulliver's Travels," which is something of a satire on Newton's "Principia"
-Napier (1550 Scotland)-trigonometry, logarithms, "mathemagician" magic :)
-Galileo (1564 Italy) astronomer; scientific method
-Pi (The Math Book, pg 110) fun to do in March with Pi Day, 3/14
-Pascal (1623 France) religious, mathematics, physics and science; pascal's triangle
-Euler (1707 Swiss) geometry, analysis (he was blind--amazing mental math!), topology (konigsburg bridge dilemma)
-Gerolamo Cardano (Italian 1501): mathematician, physician, astrologer; negative/imaginary numbers; probability
-René Descartes (1596 France)-mathematical connections, links in nature, geometry
-Fermat- (1601 France) layer, hobby of mathematics, geometry, proof, games, probability "Fermat's Enigma"
-Leeuwenhoek (1632 Dutch) lens maker, made first microscope, discovered microbes, persisted to work on his passion while employed in other occupations (De Kruif's "Microbe Hunters")
-Spallanzani (1729 Italy)-asked lots of questions, examined things, patiently proved that the concept of "spontaneous generation" was false, "Spallanzani was triumphant, but then he did the curious thing that only born scientists ever do--he tried to beat his own idea, his darling theory--by experiments he honestly and shrewdly planned to defeat himself. That is science! That is the strange self-forgetting spirit of a few rare men, those curious men to whom truth is more dear than their own cherished whims and wishes." (ibid, pg 37) Another great quote, "I have proved that there is a law and order int he science of animals, just as there is in the working of the stars." (pg 42) He went on expeditions collecting natural specimen.
-Treviso Arithmetic: European arithmetic text that discusses economics, shows need for a common economic denominator in coinage, currency, interest, and measurements. (The Math Book pg 108)
-Golden Ratio: so cool!
-Copernicus
-1714 Faranheit and the mercury thermometer
-"The Longitude Prize" a book about inventors and sea-navigation/clocks
-Mendeleyev:
--Mystery of the Periodic Table [Kindle Edition]
Benjamin Wiker (Author), Jeanne Bendick (Illustrator)1750-1900
-Lagrange (1736-France)
-Maria Agnesi (1718- Italy) abstract mathematics, made calculus textbook, dedicated to service to others--so much that it superceded her love of mathematics, importance of women getting an education,
-Benjamin Banneker (1731 African-American mathematician)-compiled almanacs, did surveying (great one to go with George Washington, also a surveyor)
-Biographies from "Brave Companions" by McCullough
-Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz (May 28, 1807 – December 14, 1873) was a Swiss paleontologist, glaciologist, geologist and a prominent innovator in the study of Earth's natural history. He grew up in Switzerland and became a professor of natural history at University of Neuchâtel. Later, he accepted a professorship at Harvard University in the United States.
-Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt (
listen (help·info); September 14, 1769 – May 6, 1859) was a Prussian geographer, naturalist and explorer, and the younger brother of the Prussian minister, philosopher and linguist Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767–1835). Humboldt's quantitative work on botanical geography laid the foundation for the field of biogeography.Between 1799 and 1804, Humboldt travelled extensively in Latin America, exploring and describing it for the first time in a manner generally considered to be a modern scientific point of view. His description of the journey was written up and published in an enormous set of volumes over 21 years. He was one of the first to propose that the lands bordering the Atlantic Ocean were once joined (South America and Africa in particular).
-Faraday (1831)
-Kepler (See Whitehead's "Intro to Mathematics" page 28-30)
-Galvani (1780) and Volta (1792) study of electricity
-Linnaeus-Naturalist $40 to education himself
-Hugh Miller: apprentice to stone mason--great geologist
-George Stevenson: civil engineer: coal miner
-James Watt: Sickly
1900-present
Biographies from "Brave Companions" by McCullough:
"Long-Distance Vision" is about the experiences and literary works of several early aviators, including Charles Lindbergh, Antoine de Saint Exupéry, and Beryl Markham.
"Steam Road to El Dorado" is about the construction of the original Panama Railway in the 1850s.
"The Builders" concerns the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge in the 1870s, and particularly the life of engineer John A. Roebling and his son, Washington Roebling.
"The Treasure from the Carpentry Shop" concerns the rediscovery of the original plans for the Brooklyn Bridge in 1969.
"The Lonely War of a Good Angry Man", written in 1969, concerns the destructive environmental impact of strip mining in eastern Kentucky, and profiles Harry M. Caudill, local author and anti-strip mining political activist.
"Miriam Rothschild" is about the English zoologist and entomologist Miriam Rothschild.
BOOKS not mentioned above:
"String, Straight Edge and Shadow"
"Beginner's Guide to Constructing the Universe"
"Go Figure!" (read it all carefully!)
"Mathematicians are People, too" vol. 1 and 2
Free Choice (and any other approved reading—through mentor)
"The Phantom Tollbooth"
"Archimedes Door of Science"
"My Side of the Mountain"
The Warlord series (counts as 1): do the expts.
"Mere Christianity" by C.S. Lewis
"Brave Companions" by McCullough
"Microbe Hunters"
"Life of Fred" (any in series)
"Men and Mathematics" by Bell
"Elegant Universe"-video
"Flatland" "Fermat's Enigma"
"Evolution: is it science or faith?"
"On Numbers" by Asimov
"Carry On, Mr. Bowditch" by Latham
"The Disappearing Spoon"
"Time"
"Introduction to Mathematics" by Whitehead
"Number Devil"
"Cosmos"--video...
"All mimzy were the borrogoves"
"A Swiftly tilting planet"
"Hatchet"
"Scientific Discoveries that Strengthen Faith"
Complete any Saxon Math book
"Donald Duck in Mathematic land"
"E=mc2" video (see Jordan for details)
"The Number Devil"
"The Longitude Prize"
"Microbe Hunter"
"The Mystery of the Periodic Table"
Friday, May 24, 2013
List of Childhood of Famous Americans and World Citizens
Christopher Columbus: Young Explorer
Christopher Columbus was born in Italy in
1451. His father was a weaver, but like most young men living near a seaport,
Columbus looked to the sea to...
$5.99
Leonardo Da Vinci: Young Artist, Writer, and Inventor
Leonardo Da Vinci is best known as the
Renaissance painter who created the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper. he also made
great contributions as a...
$5.99
Marie Curie: Young Scientist
Marie Curie was a world-renowned scientist who
made many important discoveries, as well as a great teacher and a mother, but
her accomplishments...
$5.99
Gandhi: Young Nation Builder
The man we remember simply as Gandhi was born
Mohandas Gandhi in India in 1869. From an early age he was made keenly aware of
the rigid Hindu caste...
$5.9
Mother Teresa: Friend to the Poor
Born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu in 1910, Mother
Teresa grew up in a small war-torn town in Macedonia. The youngest of three
children, Mother Teresa was...
$5.99
Pope John Paul II: Young Man of the Church
Pope John Paul II was born Karol Wojtyla on
May 18, 1920, in Poland. As a child Karol excelled in school -- especially in
religion and literature. He...
$5.99
Anne Frank: Young Diarist
In 1933, at the age of four, Anne Frank and
her family fled from the Nazis in Germany and sought safe haven in Amsterdam,
the Netherlands. In 1940,...
$5.99
Lady Diana, Princess of Wales: Young Royalty
Diana Spencer grew up to be the princess of
Wales. But when she was a little girl, she did not dream she would become a
princess. When she was still...
Childhood of Famous
Americans
*
Henry Ford: Young Man with Ideas
*
John Jacob Astor
* John Deere
* John Smith
* Patrick Henry
* Meriwether Lewis: Boy Explorer
* Allan Pinkerton: Young Detective
* Harry Houdini: Young Magician
* Eugene Field
* Dan Morgan: Wilderness Boy
* George Gershwin
* Lucretia Mott: Girl of Old Nantucket
* Jed Smith: Young
Western Explorer
* John Alden: Young Puritan
* John Wanamaker: Boy Merchant
* Luther Burbank: Boy Wizard
* The Ringling Brothers: Circus Boys
* Osceola Young Seminole Indian
* Robert Peary: Boy of the North
* Black Hawk, Young Sauk Warrior
* John Hancock New England Boy
* Herbert Hoover Boy Engineer
* Elias Howe Inventive Boy
* Babe Didrikson: Girl
Athlete
* Jeff Davis: Confederate Boy
* Cyrus McCormick Farmer Boy
* Lee DeForest
* Abner Doubleday: Young Baseball Pioneer
* George Westinghouse:
Young Inventor
* Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
* John Burrough: Boy of Field and Stream
* John Fitzgerald Kennedy: America's Youngest
President
* Rachel Jackson: Tennessee Girl
* Tom Edison: Boy Inventor
* Albert Einstein: Young Thinker
* A. P. Giannini: Boy of San Francisco
* Will and Charlie Mayo: Boy Doctors
* Andrew Carnegie: Young Steelmaker
* Elizabeth Blackwell: Girl Doctor
* George Eastman: Young Photographer
* Robert Fulton: Boy Craftsman
* Alec Hamilton: The Little Lion
* Juliette Low: Girl Scout
* Noah Webster: Boy of Words
* Stephen Foster: Boy Minstrel
* Walter Reed: Boy Who Wanted To Know
* Amelia Earhart: Young Aviator
* Dwight D. Eisenhower: Young Military Leader
* Harry S. Truman: Missouri Farm Boy
* Brigham Young: Covered Wagon Boy
* David Farragut: Boy Midshipman
* Douglas MacArthur: Young Protector
* George Dewey: Vermont Boy
* Oliver Hazard Perry: Boy of the Sea
* John Peter Zenger: Young Defender of a
Free Press
* Dan Beard: Boy Scout
* Frances Willard: Girl Crusader
* Kate Douglas Wiggin: The Little
Schoolteacher
* John Audubon: Boy Naturalist
* Mark Twain: Boy of Old Missouri
* Mary Mapes Dodge: Jolly Girl
* William Penn: Friendly Boy
* Dorothea Dix: Girl Reformer
* Maria Mitchell: Girl Astronomer
* Crispus Attucks: Black Leader of Colonial
Patriots
* Martin Luther King, Jr.: Young Man with a
Dream
* James Whitcomb Riley: Young Poet
* Robert E. Lee: Young Confederate
* Dolly Madison: Quaker Girl
* Henry Clay: Young Kentucky Orator
* John Marshall: Boy of Young America
* Susan B. Anthony: Champion of Women's
Rights
* Tom Jackson: Young Stonewall
* Tom Jefferson: Third President of the
United States
* Woodrow Wilson: Boy President
* J. Sterling Morton: Arbor Day Boy
* Robert Goddard: Pioneer Rocket Boy
* F. W. Woolworth: Five and Ten Boy
* George Pullman: Young Sleeping Car Builder
* Katherine Lee Bates: Girl Poet
* Carl Ben Eielson Young Alaskan Pilot
* Cecil B. DeMille
* Vilhjalmur Stefansson: Young Artic
Explorer
* Liliuokalani: Young Hawaiian Queen
* Gail Borden
* Bedford Forest: Boy on Horseback
* Davy Crockett: Young Rifleman
* James Oglethorpe: Young Defender
* Teddy Roosevelt: Young Rough Rider
* Nathaniel Greene
* Pontiac and the Indian Uprising
* William Henry Harrison: Young Tippecanoe
* Lotta Crabtree: Gold Rush Girl
* Lew Wallace
* Matthew Calbraith
Perry
* Bird Girl: Sacagawea
* Pocahontas: Brave Girl
* Dan Webster: Union Boy
* Stephen Decatur: Gallant Boy
* William Bradford: Pilgrim Boy
* Eli Whitney: Boy Mechanic
* John Paul Jones: Salt-Water Boy
* Raphael Semmes: Tidewater Boy
* Samuel Morse
* Sequoyah: Young Cherokee Guide
* Francis Marion: Young Swamp Fox
* John Sevier: Pioneer Boy
* Abe Lincoln: Frontier Boy
* Andy Jackson: Boy Soldier
* Anthony Wayne: Daring Boy
* Ben Franklin: Boy Printer
* Booker T. Washington: Ambitious Boy
* Buffalo Bill: Boy of the Plains
* Clara Barton: Founder of the American Red
Cross
* Daniel Boone: Young Hunter and Tracker
* Francis Scott Key: Maryland Boy
* George Carver: Boy Scientist
* George Custer: Boy of Action
* George Washington: Young Leader
* Israel Putnam: Fearless Boy
* John Fitch: Steamboat Boy
* Kit Carson: Boy Trapper
* Molly Pitcher: Girl Patriot
* Myles Standish: Adventurous Boy
* Nancy Hanks: Kentucky Girl
* Nathan Hale: Puritan Boy
* Paul Revere: Boy of Old Boston
* P. T. Barnum: Circus Boy
* Sam Houston: Boy Chiefton
* Sitting Bull: Dakota Boy
* Squanto: Young Indian Hunter
* Tecumseh: Shawnee Boy
* U. S. Grant: Young Horseman
* Virginia Dare: Mystery Girl
* Wilbur and Orville Wright: Boy with Wings
* Zeb Pike: Boy Traveler
* Babe Ruth: One of Baseball's Greatest
* Jim Thorpe: Olympic Champion
* Knute Rockne: Young Athlete
* Lou Gehrig: One of Baseball's Greatest
* Richard Byrd: Boy of the South Pole
* Will Rogers, Jr.: Young Cowboy
* Abigail Adams: Girl of Colonial Days
* Jane Addams: Little Lame Girl
* Jessie Fremont: Girl of Capitol Hill
* Julia Ward Howe: Girl of Old New York
* Louisa Alcott: Girl of Old Boston
* Martha Washington: America's First First
Lady
* Narcissa Whitman: Pioneer Girl
* Joel Chandler Harris: Young Storyteller
* Walter Chrysler: Boy Machinist
* Betsy Ross: Designer of Our Flag
* Eleanor Roosevelt: Fighter for Social
Justice
* Franklin Roosevelt: Boy of the Four
Freedoms
* John Philip Sousa: Marching Boy
* John Quincy Adams: Boy Patriot
* Aleck Bell: Ingenious Boy
* DeWitt Clinton
Harriet Beecher Stowe:
Connecticut Girl
James Monroe: Good
Neighbor Boy
* Peter Stuyvesant: Boy with Wooden Shoes
* Washington Irving:
Boy of Old New York
* Clyde Beatty: Boy Animal Trainer
* George Rogers Clark: Boy of the Old
Northwest
* Helen Keller: From Tragedy to Triumph
* Mary Todd Lincoln: Girl of the Bluegrass
* Simon Kenton: Young Trail Blazer
* Will Clark: Boy in Buckskins
* William Fargo: Boy Mail Carrier
* Zack Taylor: Young Rough and Ready
* Ernie Pyle: Boy From Back Home
* Ethan Allen
* James Fenimore Cooper: Leatherstocking
Boy
* Jeb Stuart: Boy in the Saddle
* Jim Bowie: Boy with a Hunting Knife
• Jim Bridger
Scripture Hero link for devotional, bios, etc.
This is a great link from my friend, RaNae...
You could use it for ideas for devotional, biographies, leadership, or history.
The RedHeaded Hostess scripture hero bookmarks
Link to page where she tells how to use it:
You could use it for ideas for devotional, biographies, leadership, or history.
The RedHeaded Hostess scripture hero bookmarks
Link to page where she tells how to use it:
Leadership Academy - Book and Biography Ideas
BOOK IDEAS
From Angie Moore: "Perhaps in Core we could study great and important people, events and civil discourse/communication. (I have a great little book I love on civil discourse. It would be fun to role play and learn). Then in journeyman we would study the constitution, some of the Uncle Eric books and do some simulations or something to make it more real to them: Here is the Uncle Eric books in The Law and Politics set
Evaluating Books: What Would Thomas Jefferson Think About This? (Revolutionary War period or Early Modern Age period)The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Teens
TJEd for Teens
"The Element" by Ken Robinson
BIOGRAPHY IDEAS
Thanks, Marni, for putting the following together:
I put this together for my own benefit, but thought others could use it as well. Feel free to give suggestions for more! I got some excellent ideas and information using the book "Lessons from Great Lives" by Sterling Sill (the older version with no co-author has several more biographies than the newer version). Elbert Hubbard's "Little Journeys into the Homes of Great..." series seems to have some great information as well, but I haven't had a chance to read about very many people there. Another great source is "10 Great Souls I Want to Meet in Heaven" by S. Michael Wilcox. In planning for the presentation I've gone to other sources as well, of course.
The dates listed are when they were used in the original Vanguard group. The first two years we didn't use the history periods, but I'm over Leadership Academy for the Kaysville, UT branch, and we decided that under the Leadership Lens it was less important to have someone from the history period than it is to have someone that is a great example of the principle. Still, it's nice to have it organized this way.
As you'll see, the Middle Ages are pretty sparse! Help? :) When I was creating this, it was because I was studying all these great people and didn't want to forget about them as Vanguard possibilities. Apparently I need to study about more people in the Middle Ages.
ANCIENT HISTORY (to the 5TH Century)
Esther, David, Moroni (Apr. 2010)
Augustine of Hippo (Apr. 2012)
God –
Socrates (Oct. 2011)
Jesus Christ (leadership, meaningful life, happiness...everything :)?)
Apostles
Liberty –
Buddha (Feb. 2012)
Leadership –
Confucius (Jan. 2012)
Meaningful Life/Happiness –
Job (also work/property)
Mormon (Sept. 2011)
Society –
Shiprah and Puah (midwives in the Bible, in "Women of the OT" book)
Daughters of Zelophehad (in Bible, in "Women of the OT" book), also liberty
Sons of Mosiah (security vs. freedom for others)
Jesus (Mar. 2012), also leadership
Work/Property -
Alexander (Nov. 2011)
MIDDLE AGES (5TH to the 15TH Centuries)
Citizenship –Mormon (also leadership), Sir Thomas More
God –Sir Thomas More
Joan of Arc (also citizenship, liberty)
Martin Luther
Liberty –Christopher Columbus: (exploration)
Leadership –Pope Gregory I (or Gregory the Great) (like all people, he had his imperfections, yet his goal in leadership was not selfish, which captures the spirit of this month); Sir Thomas More
Meaningful Life/Happiness –Moroni (of the end of the Book of Mormon)
Da Vinci
Society –Sir Thomas More
Muhammad (also Meaningful Life/Happiness)
Work/Property -Tyndale and the translation of the Bible
(Sir Thomas More was in the 1500's so could work here or the previous unit)...see Ensign Feb 2013, with focus on integrity. Citizenship –
Ben Franklin (also liberty, life/happiness)
God –
Liberty –
Regulas the Roman
Leadership –
Horatio Nelson (also citizenship)
Napoleon Bonaparte
Meaningful Life/Happiness –
Nathanial Bowditch (Sept. 2010)
Society –
George Washington (also leadership)
Work/Property -
Antonio Stratavari (Keith Henderson makes violins)
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Handel (Nov. 2010), also God
Sir Isaac Newton
MODERN AGE (about 1850 to the present)
Citizenship –
Winston Churchill (liberty, leadership, work)
Baden-Powell (leadership)
Harriet Tubman (Apr. 2011)
Chiune Sugihara
Corrie Ten Boom
Joseph Smith (Jan. 2010)
Mother Theresa (Jan. 2011)
Chiune Sugihara
Liberty –
Abraham Lincoln (leadership, life/happiness - Sept. 2009)
Booker T. Washington (work, security vs. freedom)
Olaudah Equiano (Oct. 2010)
John Wooden
Sir Ernest Shackleton
Gandhi (Feb. 2011), also God, liberty, citizenship
Meaningful Life/Happiness –
Sterling Sill
Hellen Keller and Anne Sullivan (Sept. 2010)
Gladys Aylward
Society –
Hannah Szenes (Mar. 2011)
Irena Sendler
Dr. Livingstone
Work/Property -
Madame Curie
John Audobon
Jacques Cousteau
John Muir
Ah-hah from the life of Newton.
Quote from "Exploring Creation with Physical Science" pg 229:
"(Newton) developed a theory describing gravity; he did the famous prism experiment that showed white light is composed of many colors; and in order to help his scientific investigations, Newton developed a new kind of mathematics we now call "calculus." Amazingly enough, these three accomplishments were completed in less than 18 months!"
I think it is so important for the youth to recognize that the preparation of a lifetime can prepare a person to affect the world in a few short months. (Look at how long it took Joseph Smith to translate the Book of Mormon, and whether a person believes it to be the word of God or not, no one can doubt it's impact on the world, both on the people who believe in it, and the massive force of charitable works that have flowed from people acting in the name of their beliefs on it.)
I believe the key to being prepared as Newton was is to continually prepare, seek truth, and be close to God. Newton also studied the Bible extensively, and at the end of his days "spent more of his time studying the Book of Daniel than he did in charting the heavens." (ibid p 230)
"(Newton) developed a theory describing gravity; he did the famous prism experiment that showed white light is composed of many colors; and in order to help his scientific investigations, Newton developed a new kind of mathematics we now call "calculus." Amazingly enough, these three accomplishments were completed in less than 18 months!"
I think it is so important for the youth to recognize that the preparation of a lifetime can prepare a person to affect the world in a few short months. (Look at how long it took Joseph Smith to translate the Book of Mormon, and whether a person believes it to be the word of God or not, no one can doubt it's impact on the world, both on the people who believe in it, and the massive force of charitable works that have flowed from people acting in the name of their beliefs on it.)
I believe the key to being prepared as Newton was is to continually prepare, seek truth, and be close to God. Newton also studied the Bible extensively, and at the end of his days "spent more of his time studying the Book of Daniel than he did in charting the heavens." (ibid p 230)
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