Feltwell Elementary School
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Intro: Hello, and welcome to Spotlights on Hedgehogs: The Feltwell Elementary School podcast site. This week some of our third graders will be sharing their book report characters. Let's hear from one of them now. |
Hi, I'm Eleanor Roosevelt. I was born on Oct. 11, 1884 in New York City. My uncle was the very famous president Theodore Roosevelt also known as Teddy. My parents were Anna and Elliot. Mom died when I was eight years old. Dad died two years later and I went to live with my grandmother. At age 15 I went to England to attend and all girls school called Allens Wood. That is when I developed confidence and began to believe in myself. At age 18 I moved back to New York and became a teacher. On March 17, 1905, I married my distant cousin Franklin Deleno Roosevelt. We had six children: five boys and a girl. I loved to help people and volunteered for the red Cross. In 1921 Franklin got polio and I would go to meetings in his place. In 1928 Franklin was elected governor of New York. In 1932 Franklin was elected president and I became first lady. As first lady I continued to help people any way I could. I even served as a delegate for the U.N. In 1945 Franklin died while still president. Finally on Nov. 7, 1962, I died in New York. |
John F. Kennedy - John Fitzgerald Kennedy was born on May 29, 1917. He Had eight brothers and sisters. His family was involved in politics. After high school John attended Harvard. He joined the U.s. Navy during World War Two and commanded PT Boat 109 in the South Pacific. The boat was cut in half by a Japanese destroyer. Later a movie was made about this adventure. In 1946 he was elected to the U.S. Congress. In 1952 he became a senator for Massachusetts at the age of 36. He married Jacqueline in 1954. He had two back operations in 1954 and while he was healing, he wrote Profiles In Courage about the PT 109 adventure. He was really popular, so he ran for president in 1960. He beat Richard Nixon to become the 35th and youngest president. As president he often worked 16 hours a day, and read four newspapers while he ate breakfast. As president he worked on the Peace Corp, civil rights, and talks with Moscow, Russia. Nov. 22, 1963 he and Mrs. Kennedy went to Dallas, Texas. He was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald. In his memory we should remember what he said during on of his speeches: "Ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country. |
Hello, my name is Helen Keller. I was blinded when I was six months old. A sickness came upon me that made me blind and deaf. When I was only five, my parents hired a sign language teacher who taught me sign language even though I didn't know what the signs meant. But in 1887, the same year that the teacher came, she taught me my first sign language word, water. This is how she did it. She lead me over to a water pump, turned the water on so I could feel the water. Then she spelled water into my hand. Then I got to know a lot of other things, too. In 1888, I went to Perkins School which is when the sign language teacher came. I wondered who she was, where she came from? She said her name was Annie Sullivan. Helen studied there and became the first deaf and blind person to get a bachelors degree. I worked with Franklin Roosevelt after I graduated from Radcliffe College. But during that time, Annie died, so we hired a new teacher. Her name was Polly. She taught me new stuff, too. But two years later she died. And two years after that, I died. |
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