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Marvis, Barbara J. – 1996
This series presents biographical sketches of famous Americans of Hispanic descent. The biographies in the projected eight volume series for elementary school children represent the diversity of Hispanic heritage in the United States. Those featured are contemporary figures with national origins in the United States or Latin America, with careers…
Descriptors: Achievement, Biographies, Childrens Literature, Cultural Awareness
Marvis, Barbara J. – 1996
The biographies in this projected eight volume series for elementary school children represent the diversity of Hispanic heritage in the United States. Those featured are contemporary figures with national origins in the United States or Latin America, with careers that cover many aspects of contemporary life. Every person profiled in the series…
Descriptors: Achievement, Biographies, Childrens Literature, Cultural Awareness
Marvis, Barbara J. – 1996
The biographies in this projected eight volume series for elementary school children represent the diversity of Hispanic heritage in the United States. Those featured are contemporary figures with national origins in the United States or Latin America, with careers that cover many aspects of contemporary life. Every person profiled in the series…
Descriptors: Achievement, Biographies, Childrens Literature, Cultural Awareness
Marvis, Barbara J. – 1994
As part of a five-volume series this volume presents biographical sketches of persons of Asian American heritage who have made contributions to American life. Asian Americans have often been subjected to racial and ethnic prejudice as have other easily identifiable groups of Americans. The series, written at a reading level of grades 5 to 6, but…
Descriptors: Asian Americans, Biographies, Childrens Literature, Cultural Background
Marvis, Barbara J. – 1995
This collection of biographical sketches presents role models of Asian American descent for American children. As part of the five-volume series written at a reading level for grades five to six, the success stories of the individuals profiled in this volume, and who have encountered racial prejudice and discrimination, remind all of the unique…
Descriptors: Asian Americans, Biographies, Childrens Literature, Cultural Background
Download full textAmerican Univ., Washington, DC. Mid-Atlantic Equity Center. – 1992
This guide presents lesson plans, with handouts, biographical sketches, and teaching guides, which show ways of integrating African American role models into mathematics and science lessons in kindergarten through grade 6. The guide is divided into mathematics and science sections, which each are subdivided into groupings: kindergarten through…
Descriptors: Biographies, Black Achievement, Black History, Black Students
