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Who Are The Young Heroes of History?
There are many ways to describe a hero. Most of us know the famous ones in our history: George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and others. But what about the people like you and me who are just trying to do the best we can in the times we live in? Are we heroes? Do we deserve any recognition? If you are anything like the characters in these books then you probably do. Very few of us know about the heroes who never made it into our classrooms but who are heroes just the same. These are the people who had to try to survive during terrible times of war, disease, slavery or any other kind of terror that our history inflicted upon them. Not only did...
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In 1846, three Irish brothers will leave their homes and emigrate to America. They will marry and have children. These children are the main characters in our books. There are over ten children of various ages in our series. This allows us to maintain the main character’s age as similar to the reader even though we are covering almost a 10 year period. In the two pre-civil war books Send ‘Em South and On the Trail of John Brown’s Body, we see how the older boys are affected by slavery and the North-South antagonisms. First we have a story about slave-catchers and runaways and then we see how this leads to the abolitionist crusade of John Brown. By the time...
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“In order to understand the people of the past, we must see them as people,” says Alan N. Kay, author of the Young Heroes of History, a historical fiction series for children. An award-winning teacher with more than 20 years of experience at the secondary level As both a teacher and an author, Kay is known for creative teaching as well as creative writing. In the fall of 2005, he was chosen as the Gilder Lehrman 2006 American History Teacher of Florida. In the spring of 2004, he was chosen as the Outstanding Educator of the Year in Pinellas County from among over 8,000 teachers. In addition, Kay is the recipient of the 2002 Daughter?s of the...
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Hi there, Thanks for taking the time to learn about this series I have worked so hard on. As a teacher of American and World History for 10 years at both the middle and high school level, I have endeavored to teach my students that history is not just a bunch of boring dates and facts. In class we conduct skits, hold debates, watch movies, and even play games. While I have had some success with this, I always remembered how the book Johnny Tremain made me fall in love with history. The more I taught, the more I realized that in order to help my students truly understand history I needed to recreate the feelings and emotions of kids their own age in the times we were...
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Television Appearances Bay News 9, “Everyday Heroes” – Feature, September 10, 2001 Video clip link courtesy of Bay News 9. RequiresReal Player to view. Free version available. WFTS Tampa TV 28, “Tampa Bay Treasure” Feature, October 2001 – No video available News Channel 8 Television appearance announcing Florida Teacher of the Year, September 2005 Radio Appearances National Public Radio, Dallas, “Conversations” on KERA – May 24th, 2002 Hosted by David Cullen, One hour call-in radio discussion on the Young Heroes of History series and the topic of History Education in general. No audio is available,...
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In 1846, three Irish brothers will leave their homes and emigrate to America. They will marry and have children. These children are the main characters in our books. There are over ten children of various ages in our series. This allows us to maintain the main character’s age as similar to the reader even though we are covering almost a 10 year period. In the two pre-civil war books Send ‘Em South and On the Trail of John Brown’s Body, we see how the older boys are affected by slavery and the North-South antagonisms. First we have a story about slave-catchers and runaways and then we see how this leads to the abolitionist crusade of John Brown. By the time...
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