Face to Face: The Canadian Personalities Hall
Introduction Personalities Play a Game Educators
activities
GRADES 6–8 GRADES 9–10 GRADES 11–12 WEBQUEST
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Activities for Grades 11-12 Quebec: Secondary 5
Seeing Stars
Teacher Notes
Student Sheet #8
What Makes a Great Canadian?
Student Sheet #9
Top Americans
Making an Impact
Teacher Notes
Student Sheet #10
Biography
Being Canadian
Teacher Notes
Student Sheet #11
Selection Committee
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Activity: Seeing Stars

Student Sheets

SHEET 9: TOP AMERICANS

These are the Top 25 Americans, according to a 2005 contest held by the Discovery Channel and AOL, which allowed Americans to nominate, then vote for, their top Americans. How many of these names do you recognize?
  • Ronald Reagan
  • Abraham Lincoln
  • Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • George Washington
  • Benjamin Franklin
  • George W. Bush
  • Bill Clinton
  • Elvis Presley
  • Oprah Winfrey
  • Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • Billy Graham
  • Thomas Jefferson
  • Walt Disney
  • Albert Einstein
  • Thomas Alva Edison
  • John F. Kennedy
  • Bob Hope
  • Bill Gates
  • Eleanor Roosevelt
  • Lance Armstrong
  • Muhammad Ali
  • Rosa Parks
  • The Wright Brothers
  • Henry Ford
  • Neil Alden Armstrong

How many of these people are still living?

How many are politicians?

How many are entertainers?

Who selected these Americans?

What impact does the selector have on the final list of those selected?

If you asked Canadians to come up with a list of "great" Americans, how do you think the list would change?
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Learning Objectives
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identify and critique the achievements of the Canadians in the online Face to Face: The Canadian Personalities Hall exhibition
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use multimedia skills to explore and define vocabulary
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identify the limitations of criteria on a selection process, using Face to Face: The Canadian Personalities Hall as an example