These are merely suggestions. Please use your imagination to pick someone YOU find interesting. Find someone non-traditional. If you are interested in them, chances are better that your classmates will be too.
Suggested Biographical Subjects (7th Grade)
Adams, John
Adams, John Quincy
Appleseed, Johnny
Arnold, Benedict
Attucks, Crispus
Banneker, Benjamin
Boone, Daniel
Booth, John Wilkes
Brown, John
Burr, Aaron
Calhoun, John, C.
Carson, Kit
Chapman, John
Clay, Henry
Cornwallis, Charles
Coronado, Francisco
Crockett, Davy
Davis, Jefferson
Dix, Dorothea
Douglas, Stephen A.
Douglass, Frederick W.
Edwards, Johnathan
Farragut, David
Franklin, Benjamin
Garrison, William Lloyd
Grant, Ulysses S.
Greeley, Horace
Hale, Nathan
Hamilton, Alexander
Hancock, John
Henry, Patrick
Houston, Sam
Hudson, Henry
Jackson, Andrew
Jackson, Stonewall
Jefferson, Thomas
Johnny Appleseed
Jones, John Paul
Lafayette, Marquis de
Lafitte, Jean
Lee, Robert E.
Lincoln, Abraham
Madison, Dolley or Dolly
Madison, James
Mann, Horace
Marshall, John
Mather, Cotton
Monroe, James
Morse, Samuel F. B.
Paine, Thomas
Penn, William
Pocahontas
Polk, James K.
Revere, Paul
Ross, Betsy
Sacajawea
Sherman, William Tecumseh
Smith, Captain John
Tecumseh
Tocqueville, Alexis de
Truth, Sojourner
Tubman, Harriet
Turner, Nat
Washington, George
Webster, Daniel
Webster, Noah
Williams, Roger
Winthrop, John
Suggested Speeches, Battles, Pivotal Events
the Alamo
The American Crisis
Boston Massacre
Boston Tea Party
Burr-Hamilton Duel
Concord, Battle of
“Don’t fire until you see the whites of their eyes”
Dred Scott decision
Erie Canal
Farewell Address, Washington’s
Fort Sumter
Gettysburg, Battle of
Gettysburg Address
“Give me liberty or give me death”
Harper’s Ferry
“House Divided” speech
“I cannot tell a lie”
“I have not yet begun to fight”
“I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country”
Lewis and Clark expedition
Lexington and Concord, Battle of
Liberty Bell
Lincoln’s second inaugural address
Monitor versus Merrimack
“One if by land and two if by sea”
Pony Express
Preamble to the Constitution
Saratoga, Battle of
Underground Railroad
Yorktown, Battle of
Suggested Biographical Subjects (8th Grade)
Aaron, Hank
Addams, Hane
Agnew, Spiro
Ali, Muhammad
Anthony, Susan B.
Barton, Clara
Bethune, Mary McLeod
Billy the Kid
Black, Hugo
Bonnie and Clyde
Borden, Lizzie
Boss Tweed (Tweed, William Marcy)
Bradley, Omar
Brandeis, Louis D.
Bryan, William Jennings
Buffalo Bill
Bull, Sitting
Bunche, Ralph
Bush, George H.
Bush, George W.
Byrd, Richard E.
Calamity Jane
Capone, Al
Carter, Jimmy
Carver, George Washington
Chief Joseph
Cleveland, Grover
Clinton, William Jefferson (Bill)
Cobb, Ty
Cody, William F. (Buffalo Bill)
Coolidge, Calvin
Crazy Horse
Daley, Richard
Darrow, Clarence
Debs, Eugene V.
Dewey, John
Dillinger, John
Disney, Walt
Douglas, William O.
DuBois, W.E.B.
Dulles, John Foster
Earhart, Amelia
Earp, Wyatt
Eisenhower, Dwight D.
Falwell, Jerry
Farmer, Fannie
Ferraro, Geraldine
Ford, Gerald
Frankfurter, Felix
Friedan, Betty
Garfield, James A.
Garvey, Marcus
Gehrig, Lou
Geronimo
GI Joe
Gilman, Charlotte P.
Goldwater, Barry
Gompers, Samuel
Graham, Billy
Grant, Ulysses S.
Halsey, William F.
Harding, Warren G.
Hearst, William Randolph
Hickok, Wild Bill
Hiss, Alger
Hoffa, Jimmy
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr.
Hoover, Herbert
Hoover, J. Edgar
Humphrey, Hubert
Jackson, Jesse
James, Jess
Johnson, Andrew
Johnson, Lyndon Baines (LBJ)
Joseph, Chief
Keller, Helen
Kennedy, Edward (Ted)
Kennedy, John F. (JFK)
Kennedy, Robert
King, Martin Luther, Jr.
La Guardia, Fiorello
Lindbergh, Charles A.
Lippman, Walter
Long, Huey
Louis, Joe
MacArthur, Doulas
Malcolm X
Marshall, George C.
Marshall, Thurgood
McCarthy, Joseph R.
McGovern, George
McKinley, William
Mondale, Walter
Murrow, Edward R.
Nation, Carry
Nimitz, Admiral Chester
Nixon, Richard
O’Connor, Sandra Day
Oswald, Lee Harvey
Owens, Jesse
Parks, Rosa
Patton, George
Peary, Robert E.
Pershing, John
Rankin, Jeanette
Reagan, Ronald
Robinson, Jackie
Rockefeller, Nelson
Roosevelt, Eleanor
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano (FDR)
Roosevelt, Theodore
Ruth, Babe
Sacco and Vanzetti
Sanger, Margaret
Seward, William H.
Sitting Bull
Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
Stevenson, Adlai E.
Taft, William Howard
Thorpe, Jim
Truman, Harry S.
Tweed, William Marcy
Wallace, George
Warren, Earl
Washington, Booker T.
Wild Bill Hickok
Wilson, Woodrow
Suggested Speeches, Pivotal Events to
Recreate for 3 Minute Presentations
“Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country”
Chappaquiddick incident
Cross of Gold speech
Custer’s last stand
“date which will live in infamy”
Fourteen Points
“I have a dream”
“I shall return”
“Lafayette we are here”
“Letter from Birmingham Jail”
Battle of the Little Bighorn
“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself”
fireside chat
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