6th+Unit+4+Courageous+Characters

__**"Courageous Characters"**__

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__**Short Stories**__ //Eleven// by Sandra Cisneros //President Cleveland, Where Are You? //By Robert Cormeir //Scout's Honor// By Avi //Nadia the Willful// By Sue Alexander //Tuesday of the Other June// By Norma Fox Mazer //Ghost of the Lagoon// By Armstrong Sperry

__**Poetry **__ "Life Doesn't Frighten Me" By Maya Angelou "Primer Lesson" By Carl Sandburg "Into Lucis Air" By Walt Whitman

__**Memoir **__ //Who's The New Kid?// By Lois Lowry //Woodsong// By Gary Paulsen

__**<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Magazine Article **__ <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">"Trading Card Talk" From //Boys' Life// <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">"Daring to Dream" From //American Girl//

__**<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Essay **__ <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">//Older Run// By Gary Paulsen

__**<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Biography **__ <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Matthew Henson at the Top of the World by Jim Haskins

__**<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Autobiography **__ <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">The Fun of It By Amelia Earhart

__**<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Informative Nonfiction **__ <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">//Summer of Fire// By Patricia Lauber

__**<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Interview **__ <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">A Life in the Day of Gary Paulsen


 * Harriet Tubman** Biography

“Bound For the Promised Land: Harriet Tubman, Portrait of an American Hero”

http://www.harriettubmanbiography.com/


 * Joan of Arc** Biography

A Brief Biography by Allen Williamson

http://archive.joan-of-arc.org/joanofarc_short_biography.html

B. (includes quotes and archives)

http://www.biographyonline.net/people/joan-of-arc.html


 * King Arthur** The True Story

By Graham Phillips

http://grahamphillips.net/Books/Arthur_Ch1.htm


 * Charlemagne**

A. (Reference tool: online encyclopedia) __New World Encyclopedia__

http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Charlemagne

B. from History.com (includes video and more)

http://www.history.com/topics/charlemagne


 * Heracles**

A. (from Greek Myth.com, has other Greek Mythological characters)

http://www.greekmythology.com/Myths/Heroes/Heracles/heracles.html

B. (Essortment.com is a site used my many NC colleges as reference tool)

http://www.essortment.com/hercules-greek-hero-god-myth-64785.html


 * Julius Caesar** Biography

A. http://www.biographybase.com/biography/Caesar_Julius.html

B. Gaius Julius Caesar

Article by Jona Lendering

http://www.livius.org/caa-can/caesar/caesar01.html

C. //The Life and Death of Julius Caesar//

A play by William Shakespeare

http://www.livius.org/caa-can/caesar/caesar01.html


 * Neil Armstrong** 30 years Later

Newspaper article by John Johnston, Saundra Amrhein, Richelle Thompson from

TheCincinnatiEnquirer

http://www.enquirer.com/editions/1999/07/18/loc_neil_armstrong_the.html

Resource information:

Courage- Character Education Theme (list of multiple sources)

http://archive.austinisd.org/academics/docs/CharacterEd_2005_03_courage_bibliography.pdf

Strong and Resourceful Female Characters in Children’s Books

By Elizabeth Kennedy

http://childrensbooks.about.com/cs/strongfemales/a/strongfemales.htm