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Girl theme
By Lori

HI,

As the mom of two girls who are into just about everything -- I often call them the Wonder Women! YOu could do some sort of take on the Super Hero theme but use real life women examples and posters around the room.
Then take pictures of your girls and place them on posters with accomplishments, hopes, dreams, etc written on them for your own Wonder Women Wall or bullentin board.
Sports -- Wilma Rudolph (Great Book tie in -- Wilma Unlimited by Kathleen Krull -- would work great with the Olympics taking place in Athens -- I have lesson plans for this book)
Here's another one with a book tie-in.

The young woman's name was Jackie something -- I can't remember right now but the picture book is Mighty Jackie the Strike-out Queen by Marissa Moss (I think) -- She played minor league baseball in Chatanooga, TN. When her team faced the New York Yankees, she struck out both Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig. Deborah Hopkinson has another picture book about a young lady who played on a men's team at age 17. You can find some of them listed at http://www.booknutsreadingclub.com
Scroll down the page a bit for the baseball/ softball books.

There are several books about the WNBA (women's basketball) out now so you could get some of those.

Venus and Serena Williams, Althea Gibson (the first Black to win at Wimbleton, male or female).

Mia Hamm -- soccer player

There are lots more possiblilities in sports. If you need a list, let me know.

History/Science

Abigail Adams -- wife of John Adams who wrote "Please remember the ladies"

Pocahontas

Sacagawea -- works great this year with the bicentennial of the Lewis and Clark Expedition.

Bessie Coleman -- Black aviator -- several good picture books out about her

Maria Mitchell -- one of the first women astronomers -- great picture book -- Maria's Comet by Deborah Hopkinson

Ruby Bridges -- The Story of Ruby Bridges by Robert Coles -- she was only six when she faced going to an all white school alone in the early days of desegregation.

Molly Bannaky -- Benjamin Banneker's grandmother -- a great picture book about her -- she was an indentured servant

Grace Hopper -- mathematician and computer scientist

Rachel Carson

Phyllis Wheatley -- Revolutionary poet

Sojourner Truth

Elizabeth Cady Stanton -- THe Ballot Box Battle -- great picture book tie-in

Susan B. Anthony

Ruth Law -- Ruth Law Thrills the Nation by Don Brown

Mary Kingsley -- Don Brown has written a picture book about her, too

Sybil Ludington -- had a midnight ride similar to Paul Revere's later in the Revolutionary War -- Karen Winnick wrote a picture book about her

Sally Ride -- first American woman in space

Eileen Collins -- first woman commander of the space shuttle

Dolly Madison

Madeleine Albright -- first woman secretary of state

Condeleeza Rice -- first woman national security advisor

Janet ??? -- her last name is escaping me at the moment, but she's the first woman Attorney General -- the one who has Parkinson's disease

Sandra Day O'Connor -- first woman Supreme Court Justice

Nellie Bly

Eleanor Roosevelt

Laura Ingalls Wilder

You could even go on to use famous fictional women and girl characters,

Pippi Longstocking, Amazing Grace, etc.

You could decorate with red, white and blue streamers and a patriotic type background theme and have some of the women leaders in your community come and visit the class -- a woman doctor, dentist, engineer, government leader, etc.

Lori