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Wilma Rudolph
By Lori

Another one I have used is doing glyphs and graphs with the story Wilma Unlimited by Kathleen Krull. This lesson came from a book called Feisty Females.

Anyway, we made a glyph of pertinant facts in Wilma Rudolph's life
-- birthdate, death date, Dream -- win three gold medals in the 1960 Olympics, birth order in family -- 20 of 22 children, childhood diseases -- chicken pox, polio, measles, etc., birth city and state -- Clarksville, TN. , etc. Then the students collected the same sorts of data on themselves. We used a running shoe template from Printmaster and glued pictographs depicting the data

we collected on the shoes. We did one for Wilma also. We hung the shoes around the top of the room where they looked like they were running around the room. We used the data we collected to do graphing activities -- birthdates, # of children in family, # of childhood illnesses, etc.

It might make a cute display especially with the Olympics at the beginning of the year. It is also a fun way to get to know the students in your class. Some of my students even did glyphs for their parents and sibs.