I am a retired teacher who wrote 7 photocopiable books for Teachers and one book for children Union Jack Colouring Book.
The 7books covered Geography, History (Medieval/ Tudor/ Stuart), Travel and Transport, Myself and Events (this included diaries), Race Against Time Stories (SATS based), Church Dates for Children plus Nature and Seasons (including Sport). These 7 books have been mainly broken into a number of segments.
Challenging the Physical Elements, my Geography book, is complete.
I am a retired teacher who wrote 7 photocopiable books for Teachers and one book for children Union Jack Colouring Book.
The 7books covered Geography, History (Medieval/ Tudor/ Stuart), Travel and Transport, Myself and Events (this included diaries), Race Against Time Stories (SATS based), Church Dates for Children plus Nature and Seasons (including Sport). These 7 books have been mainly broken into a number of segments.
Challenging the Physical Elements, my Geography book, is complete.
Hidden Figures: The story of the African-American Women Who Helped Win the Space Race is the true story of how 3 black African-American (A-A) women helped NASA win the Space Race to the Moon. It was adapted as a biographical film of the same name and released in 2016 .
It is a film and not a documentary. It looked at the lives of three black (A-A) women who made major contributions to the orbital mission of the moon by John Glenn during the space race.
Wonderful, feel-good drama about the black female engineers and mathematicians who worked behind the scenes at a segregated NASA during the tense and ground breaking 1960s space race. Daily Mail- weekend
Segregation was made obvious. Jim Crow laws meant A-A women had to have separate dining room and bathroom facilities Katherine’s boss eventually became curious about her ‘absences’ - eventually he ’ ceremonially’ pulled down the ‘Whites only’ sign.
The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) in 1958 became the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
All three ladies started work at NACA, Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia.
Katherine Johnson (1918-2020), A-A, started to work for NACA in 1953. She was a human calculator - she was simply brilliant at mathematics. Her mental maths calculations were phenomenal. The new IBM computers had been programed with the orbital equations to control the trajectory of the capsule in Glenn’s Friendship 7 mission, but were prone to errors!
Before his flight, as part of the preflight checklist,Glenn said 'Get that girl (Katherine 0 If she says they’re good then I’m ready to go. He wanted human confirmation that the figures were correct. Katherine was handed the data. She confirmed the calculations by running the numbers through by hand on her desktop mechanical calculating machine. Numbers confirmed Glenn had a successful mission,
Dorothy Vaughan (1910-2008), A-A ,started work at NACA in 1943. She was a mathematician and human calculator. She eventually became the first African=American to supervise a group of A-A staff at NASA’s Research Center in Hampton. She was in charge of the West Area Computers. She prepared for the the introduction of the IBM machine computers by teaching first herself and then her staff the programming language of Fortran.
Mary Jackson (nee Winston)(1921-2005), A-A, was a mathematician and aerospace engineer.
She started as a human computer at N A C A in 1951. Kazimierz Czarnecki, her boss, encouraged her to qualify as an engineer but she needed a degree. To do this she had to attend a night program at an all white school- Hampton High. After completing the course in 1958 she was promoted to aerospace engineer - the first black female NASA engineer. By 1979 she was the senior engineer.
She retrained for Equal Opportunities . Retired from NASA 1985.
All 3 of them were reward numerous awards and honors.
In 2020 two had a satellite named after them.
I have put together some information about the Olympic Sailing in Paris 2024.
The event form to fill in
Phrase and Vocab sheet
Poetry Aid
Brief info about the 10 sailors
Brief word search
Profiles on 5 of the sailors
Info about the 49er and the Nacra17
Art idea
Hope there is something useful there to use.
Word search added
I have included:-
the form sheet to fill in
Phrase and Vocab. sheet
Poetry Aid
‘comic strips’ -4
Information about the modern Pentathlon
profiles about the 3 competitors mentioned so far Joe Choong
Olivia Green
Kerenza Bryson
I have downloaded the Canoeing sheet for Canoe Slalom and Kayak Cross’
There is a Phrase/ Vocabulary sheet and a Poetry Aid sheet…
3 sheets created years ago - sheet 1 would be good for differentiated work.
There is information on all 4 of our experienced Olympic canoeists -Adam Burgess , Joe Clarke, Kimberly Woods and Mallory Franklin.
William Wilberforce, although small in stature (5ft. 3 in,) and suffering from poor health, was the GIANT against the Slave Trade and Slavery.
Whilst still a student at Cambridge he paid the 'customary ’ amount of £8,000 ( a fortune in those days) to become the member of Parliament for Kingston on Hull, his home town.
Early on he became an evangelical Christian and wondered whether to stay a MP. John Newman, his mentor, persuaded him to ‘serve God where he was’. In his late 30’s he married Barbara Spooner and they had 6 children over a 10 year period. Barbara nursed William after he resigned from his parliamentary seat, in 1824 .
For 50 years he fought,supported by his friends, for the banning of the slave trade and slavery.
Persistence finally paid off. His bills originally were turned down or ‘watered down’ so they were of little effect.
It was only on his death bed did he succeed.
In 1833 he wrote his last petition. The Abolition of Slavery Bill had its third and final reading, on 26th July 1833, after three months of debate. William was immediately told and he died three days later.
I have included two brief history, some gap work and a word search (answers given).
In 2014 Nadia was kidnapped from her home town Kocho and held by the Islamic State for 3 months.
ISIS in August 2014 wanted to eradicate Yardis through terrorism and violence.
They shot 600 men; the boys were taken to training camps. They killed many of the older women; young women were taken to be sold as slaves. Nadia lost her mother and 6 brothers.
Nadia was sold several times and suffered sexual violence by multiple men. On her first attempt to escape she was beaten and gang raped. Her second escape was successful. Hours later she reached an Arab house . The family, at great risk of their own lives, hid her and smuggled out of the region.
From an Iraq refugee camp she moved to Germany. She began to speak about what had happened to her and the rest of her people tens of thousands of Yazidis had been killed or displaced.
.In just over a year after the invasion she addressed the United Nations .
She founded Nadia’s Initiative - a non-profit organization advocating for survivors of sexual violence and the rebuilding of communities in crisis.
2016 appointed first ever Goodwill Ambassador for the Dignity of Survivors of Human Trafficking.
2018 , with Denis Mukwege, awarded the Nobel Peace Prize * for their efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war and conflict*. She is the first Iraq and Yazidi to be awarded the Nobel Prize.
Relentlessly she has urged the world to take action and bring ISIS to justice.
Read sheet on Yazidis
Definition
ISIS Islamic State of Iraq and Syria
Jihadist military group and terrorist organisation
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RISE: Extraordinary Women of Colour Who Have Changed the World
by Maliha Abidi
Shirin completed her degree 1969 and later was appointed a judge. In 1971 , during her judgeship. she obtained a doctorate. In 1975 she was appointed chief Magistrate.
Following the Islamic Revolution in 1979 she was demoted to clerk.She applied for early retirement and left in protest.
During the time she was unable to get a license she .began to write books and papers on human rights,
Once readmitted she worked privately and with her team took on 6,000 cases without charge. The government saw her as a threat and imprisoned her. With international pressure it was reduced to a fine.
Hearing of threats of assassination she moved to GB.
In 2003 she was awarded the Nobel Peace Price for advocating democracy and human rights. She was the first Muslim to win the prize and only Iranian to win a Nobel.
She has been in exile in London since 2009 but has never stopped fighting for the rights of Iranians.
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She was better known as Mum Shirl.
She visited 1000s of prisoners in her life time. When asked by prison officials who she was she replied ’ their mother’. This all started when she visited her brother, Laurie, in prison.
As a child she received little education because she suffered from epilepsy. She was unable to read or write but knew approximately 16 Aboriginal languages.
This did not stop her from becoming a social worker, a humanitarian activist committed to justice and welfare of Aboriginal Australians.
She was a founding member of many Aboriginal committees. ( See list)
She dedicated her life to helping others.
During her lifetime she was recognized as an Australian National Living Treasure.
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*RISE: Extraordinary Women of Colour Who Changed the World *
by Maliha Abidi
Sylvia is a Ugandan academic (BA, MA , DrP) and human rights activist in Uganda.
In 2004 she was recognized by several women’s organizations in Uganda for her human rights activism.
In a speech in October 2016 she called for a revision of the Ugandan laws that discriminate against women.
All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights Sylvia Tamale
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Shirin’s work centres on opposites religous/secular, East/West, masculine/feminine.
She does not consider herself as an activist but sees her art *as an expression of protest, a cry for humanity
When the Iran Revolution erupted in 1979 she was in the USA she wondered if she would ever see her family again.
In 1990 she was reunited with her family in a very different Iran from the one she had left . It inspired her first major work Women of Allah which featured photographs of veiled women with overlaid text.
It attracted global attention. It felt hear was someone who could describe what it was like to be an Iranian woman.
Her art is too threatening for the Iranian Authorities so she has been in exile since 1996.
Her art is a weapon on 2 fronts - against the Iran regime and the unreal perceptions of Iran held by the West.
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RISE: Extraordinary Women of Colour Who Changed the World
by Maliha Abidi
Magte Chunneiiang Mary Kom is a former boxer and Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha (2016-22).
Mary has a number of notable firsts for a female boxer from India.
She was the only female Indian boxer to qualify for the 2012 Summer Olympics -in the flyweight category she won bronze.
She is the only boxer to win the Amateur Boxing Championship 6 times.
At the 2014 first Indian female boxer to win gold at the Asian Games.
At the 2018 first Indian female boxer to win gold at the Commonwealth Games.
She has been ranked No.1 female light-flyweight by the International Boxing Association.
In 2017 the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports appointed her and Akhil Kumar as national observers of boxing.
Mary’s parents were concerned that boxing would stop her finding a husband. She found a husband, they had 2 children and she returned to boxing. Her husband supported her - gave up his job to look after the children- so she could continue.
Mary has opened a boxing academy in Imphal and been a Member of Parliament.
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Take me as an example and don’t give up Mary Kom
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Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderon was a Mexican painter known for her many portraits, 55 were self portraits and the other 88 works inspired by nature and artifacts of Mexico. She used a naive folk art style to explore questions of identity, postcolonialism, gender, class and race in Mexican Society. Her paintings often had strong autobiographical elements and mixed realism with fantasy.
Aged 6 she got polio- afterwards she walked with a limp. Her father encouraged her to play football swim and wrestle to strengthen her body.
Aged 18 Frida was very seriously injured. She nearly died when a bus crashed into a tram and a metal smashed right through her body…
Bored after months recovering she began to paint again. Her father helped by hanging a mirror over her bed so she could paint a portrait of herself of while lying down…
She loved animals and she had many pets who brightened her life.
She married Diego Rivera a famous Mexican artist. Her injuries meant they were unable to have children. Many of her painting were inspired by her sadness about it.
Diego became jealous when Frida also became famous. They divorced in 1939 and got married again in 1940
As she grew in fame and popularity her health grew worse. She had over 30 operations in her lifetime and lived in constant pain. She lost the battle with pneumonia and died at the age of 47.
She has become more popular than her paintings. She is admired for her creativity, her bravery and for following her heart.
55 self portraits -I paint myself because I am so often alone, and because I am the subject I know best - Frida Kahl
(She often painted herself as harsh and unattractive with heavy eyebrows and a moustache).
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Herstory ** by Katherine Halligan
Eric Liddell (1902-1947), an outstanding Olympic athlete over 100/200/400m, is remembered for refusing to race on a Sunday at the 1924 Olympic Games because of his Christian beliefs.
He was born in China to his Scottish missionary parents the Rev and Mrs James Dunlop Liddell. He was educated at Eltham College, Blackheath (1908-1920).
Through time it has been forgotten that he was also a missionary in China for 18 years- his life was cut short by an inoperable brain tumour which he suffered while interned at the Chines Weishein camp.
Maria Teresa, Minerva and Patria Mirabel were assassinated for opposing the dictatorship of Rafael Truijillo.
Truijillo invited Minerva and her family to a party and made sexual advances towards her, she refused . He became her enemy. He imprisoned her father who died shortly after his release.
Minerva had studied law but Truijillo prevented her obtaining her degree.
Minerva was the most active of the three sisters being the founder of
June 14 Revolutionary Movement. - an underground revolutionary dedicated to ending his regime. The older sister, Patria, lent her house to store weapons and tools.
Truijillo be came aware of their clandestine activities. He arrested the sisters and their husbands. After several months he released the wives.
He set a trap. The husbands were transferred to a remote prison. On a visit to their husbands the secret police intercepted them, beat them to death, placed their bodies in a car and sent it off a cliff. They died on 25th November 1960.
Historians believe it marked the limits of domestic and international tolerance in the Dominion Republic…The truth behind the assassinations was an open secret. May1961 Truijillo was killed by a group of conspirators.
The fourth sister, Dede (or Adela ), did not join the resistance but played a pivotal role by turning their home into a mausoleum in their memory.
The remains of the 3 resistance fighters rest in the mausoleum. It was declared an extension of the National Pantheon and located in the Hermanas Mirabal House Museum
The sisters today are revered as national heroines, 'las Mariposas’ (the butterflies).
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RISE: Extraordinary Women of Colour Who Changed the World by Maliha Abidi
Loujain is from Saudi Arabia. Until 2018 women were not allowed to drive in Saudi Arabia.
In 2014 she deliberately set out to challenge Saudi Arabia’s proscription against female drivers by live streaming her trip as part of a Women to Drive campaign. She was jailed for 73 days.n
She has been arrested and released on several occasions for defying the ban . She has been charged with** attempting to destabilise the kingdom**
In May 2018 she was effectively kidnapped in the United Arab Emirates (UAE)
In 2018 the law was changed. The ban was lifted while she was in jail.
In jail she is said to have endured torture, electrocution and threats of dismemberment and rape.
In December 2020 she was sentenced to 5 years 8 months in jail by a special (terrorism court’.
She was released on 10th February 2021 on strict prohibition conditions and faces a 5 year ban on travel. Despite her release Lourjain is far from free.
Awards for her defiance
In 2015 she was ranked 3rd in top 100 Most Powerful Arab Woman
In 2019 received the PEN America/Barbey Freedom
2019/20 nominated for Nobel Peace Prize
2020 Vaclav Havel Human Rights Prize
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Margaret Yvonne Busby, born in Gold Coast (now Ghana ), became the youngest, first black female publisher in GB.
Along with Clive Allison they were co-founders of Alison and Busby, a London based Publishing House, in the 1960s.
Notable works Daughters of Africa 1992
New Daughters of Africa 2019
2020 she was voted one of the 100 Great Black Britons.
2021 honoured with the London Book Fair Lifetime Achievement award.
2023 named president of English PEN.
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Prudence, a 21 year old student, was the first woman in South Africa to openly declare a positive HIV positive diagnosis.
After her announcement she was met with insults, presumptions that she was a sex worker and expectations that she would die soon. Her university barred her from finishing her studies.
(She lived to the age of 45 and she did gain some diplomas (light current engineering, psychology and management)
She turned to volunteer work but struggled with suicidal feelings.
She qualified as a sangoma - a traditional healing.
*She visited so many grieving families. When lesbians were killed, Pru went. When another HIV positive woman died, Pru was there. When a woman was murdered. Pru was at the font. painted up, dolled up, voice rugged,breathing through her mouth, swearing and joking and sweating, she was there.
Sisonka Msimang
She a member of the One in Nine Campaign
She set up the Positive Women’s Network in 1996.
In 1998 she helped start Treatment Action Campaign TAC)
She was the recipient of the Felipa de Souza award in 1999.
In 2004 carried the Olympic flame in Greece.
At the time of her death in 2017 she was involved with many organizations
( See ‘Career’ for full list)
Prudence worked to better the lives of those around her,she rose from despair to heroism in incredibly difficult circumstances Maliha Abidi
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Rigoberta was a member of the resistance movement in Guatemala during its brutal civil war (1960-96).
She followed in her father’s footsteps by joining the Committee for Peasant Unity in 1979 and becoming a member of the National Coordinating Committee 7 years later (1986).
She escaped to Mexico in 1981. In 1983 she published book 1 Rigoberta Menchu
which brought the world’s attention to this Silent Holocaust.
Working with numerous local and international organizations she became a leading representative of indigenous and women’s rights around the world.
In 1992 she won the Nobel Peace Prize. She was the first indigenous recipient and the youngest at the time.
She was Presidential Goodwill Ambassador for the 1996 peace accords in Guatemala. She unsuccessfully stood for president in 2007 and 2011.
Rigoberta’s activism for political and economic equality, human rights and climate change action continues Maliha Abidi
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Maria was recognised by the Indonesia in 1969 as a National Hero for her. work towards the emancipation of women. This was 45 years after her death in 1924.
Born Maria Josphine Catherine Maramis she was made an orphan when both her parents died froma disease when she was only 6. Maria, with her siblings were adopted by their uncle. Girls were primed for marriage from an early age. They were taught to read and write and received some science and history tuition.
When she married her name changed to Maria Walanda Maramis. She began to write an opinion column for the local newpaper. Her topic owere motherhood and the woman’s role in caring for the health, well being and education of their families.
In 1917 she founded Perctaan Ibu Kepada Anak Turunannya PIKAT , in English The Love of a Mother toward her children.
The organization taught mothers how to cook, sew and childcare. PIKAT spread to other islands. It offered women a network through which they could exchange skills and information.
Her daughters became teachers.
Maria also worked for political change. In 1921 women were given permission to vote for their representatives.
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Maria,from Brazil, married a Columbian husband and they had 3 children
After he was granted Brazilian citizenship he became violent to both his wife and children.
He shot her in the spine and she became a paraplegic. He escaped punishment because he said it happen when they were burgled - the police accepted the story.
He then tried to electrocute her her while she bathed.
For the next 19 years she fought to have him jailed. He was tried twice, found guilty but went free each time. In 2002 sentenced to 8 years in jail but released in 2003.
Maria campaigned for changes in the law with regards to domestic violence. She took her case to the Organization of America States.
August 7th, 2006, the Maria da Penha Law was passed. It entered into force on 22nd September 2006.
Brazil now recognizes multiple forms of violence against women and sets stricter punishments to abuse. A change that has had a life saving impact on countless women.
Today Maria is the coordinator of studies of the *Associacao de Parentes e Amigos de Violencia de Violencia (APAVV)
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*RISE: Extraordinary Women of Colour Who Have Changed the World *
by Maliha Abidi