A Trio of American Heroesa teacher resource to use as you introduce three

heroesCreated by Jodi Simpson

Second Grade Teacher

Reidville Elementary School

American HeroMartin Luthur

King, Jr.

What Did Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Stand For?D...Determined MindR...Relentless Spirit M...Miracles God performed through himA...The American he wasR...Rights he fought forT...Truth he spokeI...Improvements he sought for all peopleN...Noble services he rendered L...Love he had for humanityU...Unity he taught usT...Trials he went throughH...Heaven he said he would visit somedayE...Eternal presence of Dr. KingR...Rebuke he received while helping others K...King he was and...isI...Investments he made to mankindN...Non-violence philosophy he stood forG...God who sustained him J...Joy he must feel nowR...Rest he now takes.

For more information:http://www.kiddyhouse.com/Holidays/MLK/MLK.htmlhttp://www.stanford.edu/group/King/

American HeroThomas Jefferson

For more information visit: http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/tj3.html

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/mtjhtml/mtjhome.html

This powerful advocate of liberty was born in 1743 in Albermarle County, Virginia, inheriting from his father, a planter and surveyor, some 5,000 acres of land, and from his mother, a Randolph, high social standing. He studied at the College of William and Mary, then read law. In 1772 he married Martha Wayles Skelton, a widow, and took her to live in his partly constructed mountaintop home, Monticello.

Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of Independence and third President of the United States, was this nation's greatest champion

of the rights of man.

American Hero Abraham Lincoln

http://members.aol.com/RVSNorton/Lincoln2.htmlhttp://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/al16.html