Remarkable Person Project
Throughout time, certain people have gained recognition because of their personal
accomplishments or their position in society or the world. For this project, you will
be examining one person’s life and what made him or her stand out in the world:
which will include the world at large, the world of literature, world of art, world of
science etc.
You will be learning and using research methods to locate, extract, and compile
information about your remarkable person. Your culminating project will be to
create a four-section brochure about the remarkable person. An example of the
brochure is available as well as a list of remarkable people for you to choose from, or
you can find one on your own, but the person must have lived outside of the United
States during the period from 1550 to 1911.
The completed brochure will include the following (here is a checklist):
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Biography- focus only on influences
Accomplishments or awards
What made the person remarkable?
Who were contemporaries during the person’s life?
What would the person be doing today?
Map of the person’s birthplace
Bibliography
Please visit some of the websites below and explore the list of suggested people. Read
biographies until you find someone you're interested in and would like to use for
this project. You can begin taking notes by copying the URL for the websites and
pasting it into a word document and saving some basic information about the
person.
Websites:
www.nobelprize.org
www.bbc.co.uk/history/0/
www.artcyclopedia.com
www.notablebiographies.com
(Encyclopedia of World Biography)
www.gap-systems.org/~history/biogindex.html
(mathematicians)
Multnomah County Library biography database- with library card
http://0ic.galegroup.com.catalog.multcolib.org/ic/bic1?userGroupName=multnoma
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Remarkable People suggestions:
World leaders:
Zheng He (Cheng Ho) 1371-1433- China
Atahualpa, 1502-1533- Peru
Napoleon Bonaparte, 1769 to1821- France
David Ben-Gurion, 1886-1973- Israel
Shah Jahan, 1592-1666- India
Baron de Montesquieu, 1689-1755- France
Marie Antoinette, 1755-1793- France
King Louis XIV, 1638-1715- France
Catherine the Great, 1729-1796- Russia
Frederick the Great, 1740-1786- Germany (Prussia)
Natalya Naryshkina, 1651-1694- Russia
Peter the Great, 1672-1725- Russia
Tz’u-Hsi, 1835-1908- China
Francisco de Miranda, 1750-1816- Venezuela
Haile Selassie, 1892-1975- Ethiopia
Jaramogi Ajuma Oginga Odinga- 1911-1994- Kenya
Jan Hendrik Hofmeyr, 1845-1909- South Africa
Hassan Al-Banna, 1906-1949- Egypt
Guangxu Emperor, 1871-1908- China
Mahatma Gandhi, 1869-1948- India
Emperor Hirohito, 1901-1989- Japan
Pinhas Rutenberg, 1879-1942, Russian
Scientists:
Marie Sklodowska Curie, 1867-1934- Poland & France
Isaac Newton, 1642-1727- England
Galileo Galilei, 1564-1642- Italy
Rene’ Descartes, 1569-1650- France
Pierre Fermat, 1601-1665- France
Maria Montessori- 1870-1952- Italy
Johannes Kepler, 1571-1630- Germany
Francis Bacon, 1561-1626- England
Gabriel Fahrenheit, 1686-1736- Germany
Edward Jenner, 1749-1823- England
Ada Lovelace, 1815-1852- England
Authors/writers:
Miguel de Cervantes, 1547-1616- Spain
Selma Lagerlof, 1858-1940- Sweden
William Shakespeare, 1564-1616- England
Charles Dickens, 1812-1870- England
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, 1797-1851- England
Jonathan Swift, 1667-1745- Ireland
Jean-Paul Marat, 1743-1793- Switzerland, France
Emile Zola, 1840-1902- France
Victor Hugo, 1802-1885- France
Jean Jacques Rousseau, 1712-1778- Switzerland
Elizabeth Gaskell, 1810-1865- Great Britain
Artists:
Rousseau, Henri, 1844-1910- France
Sarah Bernhardt, 1819-1896 - France
Freda Kahlo, 1907-1954- Mexico
Antonio Gaudi, 1852–1926- Spain
William Hogarth, 1697-1764- England
Gustave Courbet, 1819-1877-France
Eugene Delacroix, 1798-1863- France
Vincent Van Gogh, 1853-1890- The Netherlands
Paul Gaugin, 1848-1903- France
Henri Matisse, 1839-1906- France
Paul Cezanne, 1839-1906- France
Claude Monet, 1840-1926- France
Edouard Manet, 1832-1883- France
Camille Pissarro, 1830-1903- France
Auguste Rodin, 1840-1917- France
Francisco Goya, 1746-1828- Spain
Edgar Degas, 1834-1917- France
Pierre Auguste Renoir, 1885-1952- France
Giovanna Garzoni, 1600-1670- Italy
Judith Leyster, 1609-1660- The Netherlands
Josefa de Obidos, 1630-1684- Spanish/Portuguese
Mary Beale, 1633-1699- England
Sophie Rude, 1797-1867- France
Julia Emily Gordon, 1810-1896- England
Music/composers:
Elizabeth Lutyens, 1906-1983- England
Clara Schumann. 1819-1896- Germany
Fanny Hensel Mendelssohn,1805-1847 – Germany
Germaine Tailleferre,1892-1983- France
Louise Farrenc,1804-1875- France
Cecile Chaminade,1857-1944
Um Kalthum, 1900-1975 (singer)- Egypt
Antonin Dvorak, 1841-1904- Czech
Felix Mendelssohn, 1809-1943- Germany
Frederic Chopin, 1810-1849- Poland
Richard Wagner, 1813-1883- Germany
Ludwig van Beethoven, 1770-1827Franz Liszt, 1811-1886- Hungary
Maurice Ravel, 1875-1937- France
Claude Debussy, 1802-1918- France