Overcoming Adversity to Achieve Your Dreams Web Quest

This year, you have read two books, Sahara Special and So B It. In both of these books, as well as our next book Four Perfect Pebbles, the characters have overcome adversity and achieved their dreams.

Your mission is to read and explore the life of one individual who has faced obstacles during their lifetime. You and your partner will research this person and report to the class.

Task

Investigate the life of your person

In order to accomplish this, you and your partner will need to:

· Gather information about the person focusing on their adversity

· Share the information learned about your person in an oral presentation

Process

· You and your assigned partner will draw the name of a famous person who met special challenges in their life.

· Research this person using the resources provided

· Record specific facts about your person

· Date of birth and death

· Information about their child hood and youth (5 fascinating facts)

· Description of this person’s disability or prejudice circumstances and how they dealt with this

· Describe how this person inspires you with challenges everyone faces in their life

· Discuss what you learned about managing difficulties

· Be sure to include at least two photographs or drawings relevant to your person

· Find a quote from or about your person

· List resources you used

Resources

Use the following resources to learn about your person.

Everyone should search for his person at Ask.com.

Franklin D. Roosevelt	Guide to Franklin Roosevelt Franklin D. Roosevelt http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/ http://www.history.com/presidents/fdr/biography http://www.biography.com/search/article.do?id=9463381&page=1
Elizabeth Barrett Browning	http://www.biography.com/search/article.do?id=9228932 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Barrett_Browning http://www.cswnet.com/~erin/browning.htm Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec	http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/toulouse-lautrec/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toulouse-Lautrec
Jane Addams	http://greatwomen.org/women.php?action=viewone&id=6 www.notablebiographies.com/A-An/Addams-Jane.html http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1931/addams-bio.html http://www.biography.com/search/article.do?id=9176298
Jim Thorpe	http://www.cmgww.com/sports/thorpe http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Thorpe www.notablebiographies.com/St-Tr/Thorpe-Jim.html
Ray Charles	Ray Charles The Genius of Ray Charles www.swingmusic.net/Ray_Charles_Biography.html http://www.biography.com/search/article.do?id=9245001
Jackie Robinson	http://www.jackierobinson.com/ http://www.biography.com/search/article.do?id=9460813 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_Robinson
Beethoven	http://www.biography.com/search/article.do?id=9204862 http://w3.rz-berlin.mpg.de/cmp/beethoven.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beethoven http://www.lucare.com/immortal/
Helen Keller	http://ohioriver.org~chawk,keller.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Keller www.mib.org.uk/xpedia/groups/public/docuaments/publicwebsite/public_Keller.hcsp-36k Life of Helen Keller
Raoul Wallenberg	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raoul_Wallenberg www.ushmm.org/wk/article.php?Moduleld=10005211 Wally Web Page http://www.biography.com/search/article.do?id=9522537
Elie Wiesel	Elie Wiesel http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elie_Wiesel http://www.biography.com/search/article.do?id=9530714 http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1986/wiesel-bio.html
Abraham Lincoln	http://www.biography.com/search/article.do?id=9382540 Abraham Lincoln http:/www.history.com/presidents/lincoln/biography
Anne Frank	http://www.annefrank.com/who-is-anne-frank/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Frank http://www.annefrank.org/content.asp?pid=1&lid=2 http://www.biography.com/search/article.do?id=204639
George Washington Carver	George Washington Carver George Washington Carver http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington_Carver http://www.biography.com/search/article.do?id=9240299
Christopher Reeve	http://www.christopherreeve.org/site/c.ddJFKRNoFiG/b.4431483/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chistopher_Reeve Christopher Reeve

Evaluation

After you and your partner have finished your research, check the contents with the evaluation rubric. The rubric will show you exactly how your presentation will be graded. Hand in a copy of your resources.

Rubric for Evaluating Adversity Web Quest

	Beginning 1 Points	Developing 2 Point	Accomplished 3 Points	Score
Information	States & discusses life-problem and gives few details of life	States & discusses life-problem and gives some details of life	States & discusses life-problem including a very detailed description of life
Summary	Covers few of the facts listed in the Process	Covers some of the facts listed in the Process	Includes many relevant facts listed in the Process
Resources	None were cited correctly	One resource was cited correctly	Two or more resources were cited correctly
Graphics	No graphics or not relevant	One relevant graphic	Two or more relevant graphics
Grammar/Spelling	Frequent spelling error	Two or less spelling errors	No spelling errors
Presentation	One group partner presents the information.	Both partners help with the presentation. Information has a mostly logical progression.	Both partners present information. Information is given in a logical progression.

Conclusion

The persons you have studied showed perseverance and endurance as they worked through adversity. Whenever you face a particular problem, you may want to get inspiration by reading how someone else dealt with his difficulties. A role model can be someone in your family or school. These people can give you ideas about how to face problems and persevere with obstacles in life.