Books in Biographies of the 20th Century series

A 16-page Teacher's Resource Guide (TRG) CD for each title includes research-based reproducible activities which extend key reading strategies including decoding, vocabulary skills, activating prior knowledge, fluency, and more. Simply select and print the activities that you need.Guided by Time Magazines list of 100 most influential people, the Biographies of the 20th Century series of softcover 64-page biographies focuses on the leaders, scientists, and icons who shaped our world. These people, many from very humble beginnings, changed how the world works. Each biography includes a glossary, timeline, and illustrations. An individual guide for each title provides reproducible activities to extend the text.

?All I was doing was trying to get home from work, ? said Rosa Parks. Raised in rural Alabama, Parks had never known a time when racial segregation was not the law. In her experience, blacks and whites did not live as equals. Then, one day, Parks decided that she had endured enough. Her soft-spoken defiance on a city bus was the spark?and the civil rights activism, led by the young Martin Luther King Jr., was the fire. In Rosa Parks: Tired Of Giving In, author Anne Schraff takes readers beyond the Montgomery bus boycott and into the heart of the civil rights movement. Rosa Parks faced death threats and personal hardships, but she never stopped fighting for racial equality. Today, her life's work is our civil rights legacy.