THE AMAZING PEOPLE WHO TOOK ON THE WORLD! ERNEST SHACKLETON (1874-1922) Shackleton is one of the world’s most famous explorers as he dedicated his life to exploring Antarctica and went on four expeditions (a journey with a mission) to the south pole in his lifetime. His first two expeditions on the ships Discovery and Nimrod … Read more
PROFILE: Eugenie Clark Born: May 4, 1922 From: New York, USA Sometimes, a love from your childhood can go on to become your life’s greatest work, and there’s perhaps no better example than that of Dr. Eugenie Clark. Eugenie was also known as Shark Lady due to her incredible research into the study of the … Read more
ALAN TURING 1912-1928 If you’ve ever played a game on a smartphone or done your homework on a computer, you have Alan Turing to thank! Born in London in 1912, Alan was an incredibly smart kid. In fact, his teachers thought he was a genius! The trouble was that his boarding school in Dorset mostly … Read more
SELECTED SHORT STORIES H. G. Wells was born in 1866 and educated at a private school at Bromley, Midhurst Grammar School, and the Royal College of Science, where he studied biology with T. E. Huxley. He had two years’ apprenticeship in a draper’s shop, of which he made good use in … Read more
Extract from I NEVER KNEW THAT ABOUT ENGLAND, by Christopher Winn Read the following passage and on lined paper, answer the questions. COCKAYNE HATLEY, Bedfordshire Long John Silver and Peter Pan’s Wendy Turn east off the A1 near Sandy and you find yourself in an empty landscape of big skies and open hills. Down … Read more
Extract from I NEVER KNEW THAT ABOUT ENGLAND, by Christopher Winn Read the following passage and on lined paper, answer the questions. NEWSTEAD, Nottinghamshire Lord Byron, mad, had, and dangerous to know, inherited Newstead Abbey when he was 10 years old. The building has been in the hands of the Nottingham Corporation since 1931 … Read more
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON (1850-94). As a novelist he is often noted for the powers of invention and depth of psychological insight found in his work; a skill defined by G. K. Chesterton as being able to pick the right word upon the point of his pen’. Born in Edinburgh in 1850, Robert Louis (originally Lewis) … Read more
Extract from The Time Machine, by H. G. Wells Read the following passage and on lined paper, answer the questions. THE TIME MACHINE THE Time Traveller (for so it will be convenient to speak of him) was expounding a recondite matter to us. His grey eyes shone and twinkled, and his usually pale face was … Read more
Using the examples above, as a guide, practice writing the following quotes, made by Abraham Lincoln and JK Rowling, on lined paper.
“The best way to predict the future is to create it” – Abraham Lincoln
“Failure is so important. We speak about success all the time. It is the ability to resist failure or use failure that often leads to greater success” – JK Rowling
Using the examples above, as a guide, practice carefully handwriting the following quotes, made by Rabindranath Tagore and Martin Luther King Jr., on lined paper.
“You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water” – Rabindranath Tagore
“If I cannot do great things. I can do small things in a great way” – Martin Luther King Jr.