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Spring 2021 Elementary K-3 Titles Spring 2021 Elementary 4-6 Titles Helen Keller was an author and an activist for the blind. She was born in 1880, and when she was a baby, an illness left her blind and deaf. When Helen was 6 years old, she began working with a teacher named Anne Sullivan. Anne was also blind, and she taught Helen how to read braille and communicate through American Sign Language. Helen also learned to write. She eventually went to school and then to college. As an adult, Helen wanted to help people, and she began working for the American Foundation for the Blind. She traveled around the world and asked people to give money to places that help blind people. She was also an author, having written 12 books. Helen died in 1968, and she is remembered for never giving up and for showing the world that people with disabilities deserve to live full lives.
Read more about Helen Keller in PebbleGo and PebbleGo Next. "Helen Keller." Biographies. Capstone, www.pebblego.com. Accessed 12 Mar. 2021. Sonia Sotomayor is a U.S. Supreme Court Justice. She was born in 1954 in New York City. Her parents were from Puerto Rico. Sonia knew when she was 10 years old that she wanted to be a judge. She worked hard and graduated at the top of her high school class. She went to college at Princeton and studied to become a lawyer at Yale. Her hard work paid off, and in 1991, she was selected by President George H.W. Bush to serve as a judge for the U.S. District Court. In 2009, she was selected by President Barack Obama as a U.S. Supreme Court Justice. Sonia became the first Hispanic and only the third woman to hold that position. She is a role model who encourages young people, especially girls, to work hard and accomplish great things.
Read more about Sonia Sotomayor in PebbleGo or PebbleGo Next. "Sonia Sotomayor." Biographies. Capstone, www.pebblego.com. Accessed 9 Mar. 2021. Sally Ride was the first American woman to travel into space. She was born in Los Angeles, California in 1951. While in high school, she became very interested in physics, and she continued to study physics in college. She became an astronaut at NASA, and in 1983, she went into space. Sally later became a teacher at the University of California. She died in 2012.
Sally is remembered for paving the way for female astronauts and for encouraging girls to study math and science. Read more about Sally Ride on PebbleGo "Sally Ride." Biographies. Capstone, www.pebblego.com. Accessed 8 Mar. 2021. Amanda Gorman is an American poet and activist. She was born on March 7, 1998 in Los Angeles, California with a hearing disorder. Amanda began writing at an early age to help express herself. She is the first National Youth Poet Laureate and also the youngest poet to read at a US presidential inauguration. She read her poem “The Hill We Climb.”
Read more about Amanda Gorman on PebbleGo. "Amanda Gorman." Biographies. Capstone, www.pebblego.com. Accessed 5 Mar. 2021. Irma Rangel was the first Mexican American female legislator in Texas. She was born in Kingsville, Texas in 1931, and she learned at a young age to follow her dreams, no matter what. Before becoming a legislator, she worked as a teacher and as a lawyer, becoming one of the first Hispanic female assistant district attorneys in Texas. As a legislator, Irma became known for her efforts to better the lives of women, children, and minorities. She died in 2003, and she is remembered as being a role model for women.
Read more about Irma in PebbleGo Biographies. "Irma Rangel." Biographies. Capstone, www.pebblego.com. Accessed 4 Mar. 2021. Take some time to read about the many African Americans who have made significant accomplishments in our society. I also encourage you to read one of the many books written by African American authors. I have created a calendar for this month that highlights a different book from our media center on each day. My calendar is based on the calendar created by Reading is Fundamental, which can be found here:
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