History's SuperHeroes by Tellus Mind

Eleanor Roosevelt

Superpower:

Assertiveness

Eleanor Roosevelt “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”

What did Eleanor Roosevelt do? Eleanor Roosevelt was the US First Lady from 1933 to 1945. She was married to Franklin Delano Roosevelt and worked hard to promote human rights.

Eleanor Roosevelt fought for people's rights in every aspect of her life. She didn't focus only on the rights of American people, but on the rights of people around the world. In 1946, she became the U.S. delegate to the United Nations. In this role she became a driving force behind the U.N.’s Declaration of Human Rights, which over 50 memberstates eventually worked together to compose.

Full name: Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Born: 11 October, 1884 in USA Died: 7 November, 1962 Best known for: Being the USA's First Lady, and a political activist in developing human rights.

Eleanor Roosevelt was a strong supporter of antilynching laws, and despite the lack of her husband's support, she worked to outlaw lynching. This earned her many enemies, as well as some death threats. In the 1950s, the Ku Klux Klan put a $25,000 bounty on her head.

Superpower:

During her time in the White House as First Lady, Eleanor Roosevelt would hold press conferences where only female journalists were welcome. As a result, many news agencies hired their first female reporters, breaking new ground for women across the USA.

Assertiveness

Lynching is the public killing of an individual without a court trial.

Eleanor Roosevelt believed that panic and grief could never justify prejudice. Even in the aftermath of the attack on Pearl Harbor, she publicly urged Americans not to target Japanese-Americans out of revenge.

Being assertive was a quality that followed Eleanor Roosevelt in every aspect of her life. In her newspaper column My Day, she wrote strong, opiniated articles, six days each week. In this column she discussed all sorts of matters, and she clearly expressed her own opinions. She also freely discussed her personal life. During the nearly three decades she wrote the column, she only missed a single week—when her husband Franklin died in 1945.

Eleanor Roosevelt used her newspaper column and her radio broadcasts to encourage Americans to write to her. In 1933 she received around 300,000 letters and cards. She often worked late into the night reading her correspondence and trying to reply.

Eleanor was known for the fancy hats she wore. Each was different, and some so elaborate that she often received hate letters from American citizens. Eleanor also used to wear furs, because at that time this was a practical way of keeping warm. Unfortunately, back then, women and other minorities had few basic rights, so people like Eleanor had to fight for themselves first and for animal rights later.

Eleanor was a great animal lover, and she had a sweet dog named Fala. However, the human consciousness back then was discriminateing pets from wild animals like wolves, coyotes and bears.

Dear Madam: I am a great admirer of your distinguished husband and have the utmost respect for his talented wife. But who the hell picks those terrible hats for you? Permit me to suggest you appoint your pretty young daughter to select your hats hereafter. You owe it to your “public” to appear properly dressed. Sincerely, A. Married Man

Eleanor Roosevelt's assertiveness was evident in many cases especially when the situation demanded clear action to help people's lives. What she did in the the days following the bombing at Pearl Harbor remains in history. Elleanor Roosevelt was the first federal official to speak to the American people after the USA was attacked at Pearl Harbor by the empire of Japan.

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Eleanor - Challenge What can you do?

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Write a letter to a loved one describing 5 features of their character that make them special.

Promote happiness, or a great cause, by hiding notes!

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Write an email to Eleanor Roosevelt in order to get an answer 'From Her'.

Practice: Assertiveness

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Activity

Eleanor Roosevelt is well known for the great letters she wrote to friends and family members making them feel special and important. She often described the other person's abilities and expressed her admiration for their skills or character. e Try to do th same:

Write a letter to a loved one describing 5 features of their character that make them special. From:

Feature 1:

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Activity

Notes have Power

Eleanor Roosevelt used to go into President Roosevelt's office and tell him what to do and advise him on civil rights issues. Most of the time President Roosevelt disagreed and Eleanor would put pressure on him by hiding notes in his office for him to find later. She tried to promote a deserving cause by hiding notes!

You can do the same:

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Activity

Would you like to receive a letter from Eleanor Roosevelt?

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EMAIL WRITING

Write an email to Eleanor Roosevelt (having in mind Eleanor's fights for human rights) asking her to help you deal with some violations of human rights or animal rights that you are aware of in your town or your country - and get an answer 'From her'.

You will get an answer 'from' Eleanor Roosevelt

These are your tools use them well:

Notes:

How to write a good Email

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Send your email right away! Don't send something that makes you look bad

Don't be too casual

Don't send grammatically incorrect emails

Remember to write your name at the end of your email!

Write a subject title for the email!

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John Lennon Superpower:

Imagination

John Lennon

"You may say I'm a dreamer but I'm not the only one".

Full Name: John Winston Lennon Born: 9 October, 1940 in England.

Died: 8 December, 1980 Best known for: Being a peace activist, and a singer-songwriter - he founded the famous music band The Beatles.

What did John Lennon do?

Lennon is a hero because he did many things for the music industry, for people and for politics. He changed the world of Lennon is a hero because he music and heJohn changed the way people influenced the music industry, people's look at wars, religions, love and social lives, political thinking. His activities behaviour. Johnand Lennon changed the world just by being the whoworld he is, singing changed of music and changed what he thought, fighting the wayand people lookfor atwhat wars, religions, love he believed in.

What did John Lennon do?

and social behaviour. He changed the world just by being who he is, singing what he thought, and fighting for what he believed in.

Imagine Imagine is a well-known song that Lennon wrote for the anti-war movement. The lyrics encourage the listener to imagine a world where are “no countries” and nationalities and there is “nothing to live or die for”; a world where people are “living life in peace” and there is nothing to divide them - neither religion, nor possession, so they “can live as one”.

After his father left, John was raised by his Aunt Mimi. His mother died in 1958 after being hit by a car.

During their honeymoon John Lennon and his wife Yoko Ono stayed in their hotel room, and invited the world to do the same, to protest for peace. During this 'bed-in' campaign, one of Lennon’s most memorable anti-war songs was written and recorded: Give Peace a Chance. No War

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Superpower: Imagination

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John Lennon was annoyed by the extravagant dresses, jewels and snobbish behaviour of some of the rich people in the audience.

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The song Give Peace a Chance repeats the lyrics “All we are saying is give peace a chance”. It became one of the anthems of the peace movement, and was chanted on marches and rallies internationally. In 1969, Give Peace a Chance was sung by half a million people at the second Anti-War Moratorium Day in Washington, D.C. P Love + eace

Practice: Imagination

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John Lennon - Challenge What can you do?

When you complete a task,

On the next pages you have to:

come back and tick the appropriate square. Keep in mind it doesn't matter how long

Color the comic strip and complete the dialogue.

it takes as long as you have completed it!

Remember! Coloring pages and imagining dialogues can improve your concentration skills. 74

Be imaginative and write a story.

Listen to the song Yellow Submarine and read the lyrics carefully.

Observe the clouds, describe them, write what you think they resemble then write an imaginative story.

Write the word love 100 times. you

Practice:

Imagination

Activity

Try to write dialogues for the comic stip. You can also color the comic strip.

Activity

Be Imaginative! Your task is to have a look at the following pictures and write down the first word that comes into your mind. Make sure that the word you are going to write down is related to the picture. Then you will have to use as many of the words as you can to write a story related to those words. Creating a story using a specific list of words takes a lot of imagination. This writing challenge tests your ability to build a story based on a selection of unrelated words..