Get dressed up! Show off your knowledge! I
mpress your friends and fill your parents with pride and joy! Make your teacher glow with happiness (that’s me)!
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On the Night of Notables you get to do all this. There are two great points about this project: you choose your own person to study (with conditions) and you choose your working partner (if you want one). This means you have the perfect excuse to have researching weekends with your best friend; and your teacher can’t tell you what to do (but she can influence you, veto your choice and be critical – after all, what are teachers for?).
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I’m pretty easy-going really!
♦ All I ask is that your notable person is admirable and memorable. He or she should have inspired other people and contributed something of value to human life or human beings. That’s not much to ask, is it?
♦ I want no mass murderers, no violent criminals, no brutal dictators and no vicious tyrants: just great people who have given us hope, remedies, knowledge, understanding, music, ideas, new ways of thinking, inventions, plays, books and so on.
♦Your notable person might have saved us too – from poverty, tyranny, injustice, slavery or suffering.
♦You could choose a musician, a poet, an inspirational gardener, an environmental campaigner, a great cook or a brave leader who stood up to oppression.
♦Don’t forget Australians. Don’t forget women!
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There are some sites below to give you ideas…
CLICK HERE to go to a site about notable Australians…
(http://teachers.ash.org.au/aussieed/reference_famouspeople.htm)
CLICK HERE to go to a site about inspirational people, including great humanitarians:
(http://www.biographyonline.net/)
CLICK HERE for some inspirational quotations:
http://www.biographyonline.net/quotes/inspirational.html
CLICK HERE for more brainy and interesting quotations:
