Not so OT--kid's world history project
betsey
katie, my sixth grader has been assigned a history project. she has to
be a famous person from world history (NOT US history) and make a video
talking about "her life"....we are trying to come up with a woman from
world history that she could be, that she could incorporate macho the
wonder horse into.....got any ideas????
betsey
Emily Brooks
"betsey" <twox...@aol.com> wrote in message
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Joan of Arc?
Emily
Dave Smith
Catherine the Great
:-)
Hunter
>> katie, my sixth grader has been assigned a history project. she has to
>> be a famous person from world history (NOT US history) and make a video
>> talking about "her life"....we are trying to come up with a woman from
>> world history that she could be, that she could incorporate macho the
>> wonder horse into.....got any ideas????
Lady Godiva.
hunter
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Brian Whatcott
Hmmm...Lady Godiva, of course. Ekaterina not quite suitable.
A number of British Queens if she has a thing for side-saddle.
Emily Wilding Davison possibly, though she was on the wrong side of
the horse, I fear.
Brian Whatcott Altus OK
Macnutt
Lady Anne Blunt?
wka...@vic.com
A question: intially you said it had to be a "famous person." Then
it morphed to a "she." Is it certain that it's a "she" or is that an
overlay?
Bill Kambic
Haras Lucero, Kingston, TN
Mangalarga Marchador: Uma Raça, Uma Paixão
ako...@san.rr.com
My ancestor, Wilhelmina von Schulenberg, German mistress of King George
the whichever, who loved horses, was a good rider, was disliked by the
English, and dubbed the Maypole due to her height and slimness?
>;->
Abby
betsey
the "she" was simply because katie's a she...she doesnt want to be joan
of arc (katie goes to parochial school and says NO SAINTS!)...she did
think of alexander the great and bucephelus (oh, i butchered that
name).
and to those who suggested entirely inappropriate names-cathering the
great (no, she didnt really die the way we all think she did....) or
lady godiva...c'mon...be nice, this is my kid!!
Fran Bragg
Princess Anne? She is a little more contemporary, and competed in the
Olympics!
Fran
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Jim Casey
> ... katie, my sixth grader has been assigned a history project. she has to
> be a famous person from world history (NOT US history) ...
Isaak Dinesen (a.k.a. Karen Blixen), heroine of the movie "Out of Africa"
and the author of the book of the same title.
Beryl Markham, who was the "other woman" in "Out of Africa."
The female riders of "The Canterbury Tales."
Generic Amazons.
- Jim
wka...@vic.com
>hi bill--
>the "she" was simply because katie's a she...she doesnt want to be joan
>of arc (katie goes to parochial school and says NO SAINTS!)...she did
>think of alexander the great and bucephelus (oh, i butchered that
>name).
How about foreigners who had a substantial impact on the U.S.?
Baron Von Stubben (who wasn't a baron and wasn't named Von Stubben but
who was crucial to Geo. Washington's ultimate victory).
Jean Lafitte, the pirate who help Andy Jackson whip the British as
Chalmette.
Francisco "Pancho" Villa, alternately a bandit an a patriot.
>and to those who suggested entirely inappropriate names-cathering the
>great (no, she didnt really die the way we all think she did....) or
>lady godiva...c'mon...be nice, this is my kid!!
For some females:
Margaret Thatcher
Golda Meir
Indira Ghandi
Ben Turner
Alicia Meynell, first female jockey, English, early 1800s
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Best,
Ben Turner, Mare's Reach
Fran Bragg
George Eliot, who was a writer in the 1800's. Don't know about a connection
with horses, other than what was required by daily life in the 1800's, but
she had an interesting life, and quite a different one from most ladies of
her time! Maybe too radical for parochrial school though! :)
Fran
Hunter
>and to those who suggested entirely inappropriate names-cathering the
>great (no, she didnt really die the way we all think she did....) or
>lady godiva...c'mon...be nice, this is my kid!!
I said Lady Godiva. I was thinking flesh colored tights and long
flowing hair....
Hunter
Dr Corinne B Leek
Boadicea (sometimes spelled Boudicca) kicked some serious Roman butt.
Then, as tomorrow is St Paddy's Day, there's Queen Maeve.
Pharoah Hatshepsut and her charioteers.
Or how about detailing the ordinary life of a peasant woman using a
horse to do her chores in the Middle Ages, Assyria, Rome, whenever?
And to counter the the claim that a peasant woman isn't "famous", who
else actually did all the work? <VBG>
Corinne, trying to help...
Carrot Gin Fizz Still Crew, certain that it was a mare who invented
the Still...
Mark VIVIVI, pointing out Madame Curie and her contribution to the
medical field...
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Joyleen Seymour
betsey wrote:
Lady Godiva? ;-)
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John Hasler
> Or how about detailing the ordinary life of a peasant woman using a horse
> to do her chores in the Middle Ages, Assyria, Rome, whenever?
Such a peasant woman would have been extremely unlikely to have a horse.
She might have been pulling the plow herself, though.
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lizzard woman
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Those are good.
My suggestion would be mitochondrial eve. She lived in Africa. I think
that would be the coolest thing.
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sharon
"The net of science covers the empirical universe: what is it made of (fact)
and why does it work this way (theory). The net of religion extends over
questions of moral meaning and value. These two magisteria do not overlap,
nor do they encompass all inquiry (consider, for starters, the magisterium
of art and the meaning of beauty). To cite the arch clichés, we get the age
of rocks, and religion retains the rock of ages; we study how the heavens
go, and they determine how to go to heaven."
"Nonoverlapping Magisteria" by Stephen Jay Gould, 1997
Karen
Barbara Bailey
Bortai, wife of Genghis Khan.
While there's not much out there specifically about _her_,
there's enough about the Mongols in general and her husband and
sons that Katie could come up with something interesting, I
think. Unfortunately, the reference bookshelves have mostly been
packed for the upcoming move, but offhand, Harold Lamb has a
decent YA book on the Mongols. If she wants to go this route,
feel free to email me, and I'll make sure that I don't box up any
more of the books on the Mongols that we've got, and give her
whatever information I can.
Barb
Laurel Reddick
Hi Betsey. How about Robyn Smith, Fred Astaire's second wife, who was
the first female jockey to win a stake's race? It would be fairly
easy to dress Katie as a jockey and Macho as a race horse, and film
them racing. http://famous.adoption.com/famous/smith-robyn.html
Or if it absolutely cannot be US History. Perhaps the first English
female champion apprentice jockey, Hayley Turner.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/nottinghamshire/4414864.stm
Of do you need really famous types?
Laurel
Laurel Reddick
Macho as her patient? Katie as Dian Fossey and Macho and friends in
gorilla suits? Can you sew? <g> Obviously I've got time on my hands
tonight.
Laurel
betsey
may have to run past her teacher. and yes, laurel, i do sew...i wonder
just HOW difficult to dress up a horse as a gorilla?????
i love the idea of Khan's wife, as well as a host of others---boadicea,
ect. we kept coming up with the obvious american ones---annie oakley,
calamity jane, ect.....
betsey
Ruth Baltopoulos
Lady Godiva?
ermmmm....
Annie Oakley?
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Judie
Karen wrote:
> Question: If its "world" history, why cant it be someone from U.S.?????
Yeah, I was thinking "Art History" and Georgia O'Keefe. She had a ranch
in Taos, NM and rode her horse until she was very old. Not sure the
actual age but I know she did not even move to Taos until she was 64
and she died there when she was 98.
Judie
Brian Whatcott
wrote:
>Gertrude Bell.
>http://www.gerty.ncl.ac.uk/
We could certainly use a Miss Bell right now.
In the mold of El Lawrence, I'd think
Brian Whatcott Altus OK
Linda Harms
twox...@aol.com says...
> hi everyone--
> katie, my sixth grader has been assigned a history project. she has to
> be a famous person from world history (NOT US history) and make a video
> talking about "her life"....we are trying to come up with a woman from
> world history that she could be, that she could incorporate macho the
> wonder horse into.....got any ideas????
>
>
>
I recently saw this PBS documentary on the Amazon women warriors.
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/secrets/case_amazon/index.html
IIRC they were thought to be a Greek myth, but now archaeologists are
finding evidence that they did exist. It is believed that they migrated
to what is now Russia.
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That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
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Signifying nothing.
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JC Dill
>hi everyone--
>katie, my sixth grader has been assigned a history project. she has to
>be a famous person from world history (NOT US history) and make a video
>talking about "her life"....we are trying to come up with a woman from
>world history that she could be, that she could incorporate macho the
>wonder horse into.....got any ideas????
Anna Sewell, author of Black Beauty:
http://www.bibliomania.com/0/0/42/frameset.html
jc
Shirin
betsey wrote:
> hi everyone--
> katie, my sixth grader has been assigned a history project. she has to
> be a famous person from world history (NOT US history) and make a video
> talking about "her life"....we are trying to come up with a woman from
> world history that she could be, that she could incorporate macho the
> wonder horse into.....got any ideas????
>
Lady Hester Stanhope? (Rah-tha obscure, but Queen Hester is an
interesting woman...)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Hester_Stanhope
If you had a wagon and five other horses and could teach your daughter
to drive a team in time for the video: Maud Younger
http://womenshistory.about.com/library/bio/blbio_younger_maud.htm
And then if you like costumes, you could dress her as a man who needs a
horse in order to be famous--Dick Turpin the famous highwayman?
I always wanted to meet The Scarlet Pimpernel or Dick Turpin and
convince either one that they were nothing without me as a faithful
sidekick, ready to groom black steeds at a moment's notice.
betsey
my daughter campaigned heavily under "she was world famous" to be annie
oakley with her history teacher. Mr. L is a pushover, and just finally
rolled his eyes and said "ok, ok, i give up...BE annie oakley".
needless to say, the kid is thrilled. she is now working on her trick
roping <g> skills, and plans to do her video with Macho, the wonder
horse....
betsey