REAL AMERICAN HEROES

VOCABULARY WORDS

VOCABULARY WORDS

• disease • vaccine

• Disease: An illness or condition that harms a living thing.

• Vaccine: A medicine that prevents an illness.

• Who is a hero? • Give some character traits of a hero

REAL AMERICAN HEROES

Real American Heroes are people that have helped America grow and change in important ways.

• How would you feel if you were not allowed to read?

FREDERICK DOUGLASS

• He was a slave. • It was against the law for slaves to be taught how to read and write.

FREDERICK DOUGLASS

• He escaped to the North to be free and continued his education. • He spoke against slavery and wrote about it.

FREDERICK DOUGLASS

•  Learning to read was important to Frederick because

1.  He learned about freedom 2. He wanted to be free.

1.  Who is Frederick Douglass? 2.  Do you think Frederick was a

hero? Why?

CHIEF PLENTY COUPS

• He was a Crow Indian boy. • He had a dream that made the Crows protect the travelers who passed through their lands. • He always looked for peaceful solutions to problems.

CHIEF PLENTY COUPS

Boy has a dream

Elders believe the dream

Crows cooperate with the white people

Crows were able to keep some of their land

JONAS SALK

He was a scientist and an inventor.

He developed a vaccine for polio.

JONAS SALK

• Polio is a disease that left people paralyzed. • It spread from one person to another.

JONAS SALK

• He created a vaccine that could keep people from getting the disease. • To prove the vaccine was safe, Jonas

tested it on himself and his family.

• Who is Jonas Salk? • One of the character traits used to describe Jonas Salk is bravery. Why do you think so ?

ROSA PARKS

• She grew up when they had separate laws for black and white people. • She refused to give out her seat on the bus to a white person.

• She was arrested and fought the charges in court. • After what she did, black people no longer had to give up their seats on the bus.

ROSA PARKS

CESAR CHAVEZ

• Most Mexican American farmers were poor. • Cesar Chavez started an organization

United Farm Workers (UFW)

UNITED FARM WORKERS (UFW)

Protect the farmers

Better pay for farmers

Better living conditions

ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

First Lady of the United States. Wrote a

newspaper column ‘My

Day” Travelled around for her husband

when he had polio

ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was published under her. The document gives the basic rights of all people in the world: 1.  Rights to free speech 2.  Right to education 3.  Right to free trial.

• Why did Eleanor Roosevelt travel around for her husband? • What was her newspaper column called? • List two rights included in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

•  Which of the heroes is your favorite? Why?