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People of Vision:

1.   Alfred Nobel

2.   Audrey Hepburn

3.   David Ben-Gurion

4.   Helen Adams Keller

5.   Henrietta Szold

6.   John F. Kennedy

7.    Magic Johnson

8.    Mahatma Gandhi

9.    Maria S. Curie

 

 

 

10. Angelina Jolie

 

11. Martin Luther King

 

12. Michael Jordan

 

13. Mother Teresa 

 

14. Nelson Mandela

 

15. Orville Wright

 

16. Pele

 

17. Princess Diana

 

18. Susan B. Anthony

 

19. Winston Churchill

 

20. Stephen Hawking

 

A few useful tips:

Writing:

a.   Compare information from your sources.

 

b.   Eliminate information that is repeated.

 

c.   Organize key ideas in a logical order.

 

d.   Write in your own  words! Dont copy from your sources!!!

 

e.   Keep your information clear.

 

f.      Use correct language and spelling.

 

g.   Type your project and add pictures and graphics.

 

Research - keep these things in mind:

 

a.      Is the information relevant?

 

b.      What is the source of the information?

 

c.      Is the author's name mentioned?

On-line Dictionaries

Morfix:  http://www.morfix.co.il/#

Babylon: http://www.babylon.com/

 

Biography Sites

Famous women

http://www.distinguishedwomen.com/subject/field.html

http://www.wic.org/bio/idex_bio.htm

http://www.physics.ucla.edu/~cwp/

http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0001541.html

http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/0/7/6/8/4/3/A0768438.phtml

http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/women/

http://www.worldhistory.com/famous-women.htm

http://www.wic.org/bio/idex_bio.htm

http://www.greatwomen.org/women.php

 

Famous Men and Women

http://www.infoplease.com/people.html

http://www.biography-center.com

http://www.multcolib.org/homework/biohc.html

http://libraryspot.com/biographies

http://www.alphabetsoup.biz/cardmen.htm

http://www.pitara.com/magazine/people.asp?counter=20

http://aboutfamouspeople.com/

http://www.biography.com/

http://www.who2.com/

http://history1900s.about.com/library/misc/blpeople.htm

http://www.dyslexia.com/qafame.htm

http://members.aol.com/TeacherNet/Famous.html#Bio

http://www.pbs.org/history/history_biographies.html

http://amillionlives.com/

http://www.galegroup.com/free_resources/bhm/index.htm

http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/index.html

http://www.sos.state.md.us/sos/kids/html/people.html

http://www.earlystart.co.uk/esfrench1/04people.htm

http://www.time.com/time/time100/

http://www.fatbadgers.co.uk/Britain/people.htm

 

Search Engines

http://www.google.com

http://www.altavista.com

https://www.lycos.com/

http://www.yahoo.com/

http://www.metacrawler.com/

http://www.alltheweb.com/

 

 

 

Where there is love there is life - Mahatma Gandhi

If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one - Mother Teresa