leah+myers-+african+anerican+hero

*need to use at least four different sources.*


 * Paragraph 1--Intro to your person **


 * 1) Start with personal sentence
 * 2) Explain
 * 3) Name of your person- Francis Ellen Watkins Harper
 * 4) Summary of event she took part in that would make her a hero-she was part of the Underground railroad.
 * 5) Thesis
 * SOURCE

** Paragraph 2 --Put person's life into perspective--when did they live, where, who were they trying to help, how, why was this important? **


 * 1) When - sept. 24, 1825- feb. 22, 1911
 * 2) Where (born)-Baltimore, Maryland. then, Ohio and Plillidelphia
 * 3) Who- helped slaves (was an abdominalist and poet. was part of the Underground Railroad.) also suppoted women's rights.
 * 4) Why- she didn't like racistism and the oppositition of women.
 * 5) Why were actions important-helped stop slavery and suport women rights.
 * SOURCES

** Paragraph 3 & 4--How did your person gain their wisdom? Paragraph 3 -- What was the event your person took part in? How was this event indicative of the time period? **


 * 1) Event-Underground Railroad.
 * 2) <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Detail-wrote poems about racism and slavery telling people that it's bad.
 * 3) <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Detail-profits of selling books went to freeing the slaves.
 * 4) <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Detail- in the UR, she helped the slaves escape and flee to Canada.
 * 5) <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Your person's role-to perswade people to free slaves
 * 6) <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Quote from PS/SS somewhere in paragraph-//Apparent failure may hold in its rough shell the germs of a success that will blossom in time, and bear fruit throughout eternity//.
 * <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Secondary Source(s)
 * <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Primary Source(s) V

<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">**Paragraph 4**


 * 1) <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">What was your person's role? What did they do?-perswaded people that slavery was bad by writing books and poems about it.
 * 2) <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Detail-most poems in //Poems on Misc. Subjects// talked about her opinoin on slavery.
 * 3) <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Detail-most of her books and poems were popular and their articles were featured in newspapers.
 * 4) <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Detail-she also founded the YMCA sunday schools.
 * 5) <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">What impact did the above have on people’s lives? eventually, the slaves were free and then she worked on gaining women rights.
 * 6) <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Quote from PS/SS somewhere in paragraph- //"We need men and women whose hearts are the homes of high and lofty enthusiasm and a noble devotion to the cause of emancipation, who are ready and willing to lay time, talent, and money on the altar of universal freedom."//
 * <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Secondary Source(s)
 * <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Primary Source(s)V

<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">** Paragraph 5-- ** **The wisdom**


 * 1) <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">What impact do you think the event had on your person? Others? I think it inspired Francis to write more books and that women can make a difference.
 * 2) <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">What did they learn from it? Teach others?
 * 3) <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Quote from PS/SS somewhere in paragraph-"//No race can afford to neglect the enlightenment of its mothers."//
 * <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Secondary Source (s)
 * <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Primary Source (s) V

<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">** Paragraph 6--What is the person's legacy? ** A legacy is something you leave behind that will benefit others-perhaps those yet unborn. How did the person’s actions benefit all those who came after them. How might the whispered wisdom impact you? This is your conclusion based on your research. It needs to reflect your research and not be an "off the street" answer.

think of three creative commons copyrighted images you could use to represent your person and place them on your page

When you are done writing submit to [|My Hero]. Place it first on your wiki, then cut+paste it over to the site. IT IS IMPORTANT WHEN REGISTERING THAT FOR "SCHOOL" WRITE **MORAN MIDDLE SCHOOL**. Your proposal should follow the same format as your notes!