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Week 27 of 32 • Page 4 WEEK 27 Men and Women Name ______of Florida

ACROSS 3. First Florida woman on the state supreme court: Rosemary ______6. award won by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings for “The Yearling”: ______Prize 7. another word for mankind 9. to accuse or bring charges against

DOWN 1. a person who makes a choice on a ballot in an election 2. one’s chosen field of work 4. deer that can only be found in the Florida Keys 5. Columbia County’s county seat 8. enrolled

As you read this week’s lesson, circle or highlight Contemporary Men and Women of Florida all proper nouns with any color pen or highlighter. This will help you find some of the crossword Welcome, boys and girls, to another issue of Florida Studies M. Athalie Range was the president of a local and county Parent- answers and get ready for this week’s test. Weekly. In this issue, you can learn about some of the great people Teacher Association (P.T.A.) for 16 years. During this time, she fought who have helped make Florida such a great state in the last 100 years. for equal rights in education for minorities. She became the first African There are all types of citizens from many walks of life. There are American woman to be elected to the Miami Board of Commissioners, government employees, athletes, educators and people who were or are where she fought for stricter gun laws, updated fire codes, secured a still involved in many different aspects of life in restriction on the sale of glue to minors and created Who Am I? Florida. park and play areas. In 1970, she was appointed to As we read this issue of Florida Studies Weekly, serve as secretary of the Department of Community we’ll learn about these contemporary (modern day) Affairs, becoming the first African American You have read about several famous people who 3. I used to watch my father write about criminals. men and women who are powerful, intelligent and woman to serve as a head of a state came from our state. Read the statements below. Then I helped make sure criminals were put in jail. important. They represent all the character traits agency in Florida. In her lifetime, Which famous person from Florida matches the clues? we have learned about this year. All of them she received more than 125 Write the person’s name on the line. ______helped in one way or another to make Florida awards and honors. the state that it is today. Ernest Hemingway’s ______We can start with Lenore Carrero home is located in All I wanted was for my city to clean up the water. I 1. Nesbitt. Nesbitt was the first female Old Town, Key West. never thought I’d end up as mayor and senator! judge appointed to the U.S. District Hemingway is known Court for the Southern District for his novels and great ______4. I was a special agent who worked hard to protect our country’s birds. of Florida. She worked many stories, many of which ______different jobs, including serving are about Florida. A ______as a research assistant to the stamp was issued in his chief judge of Florida’s First honor in 1989. 2. It sure was nice of the people of Miami to name ______District Court of Appeals. She Many other men and so many things after me. Winning so many football was the first woman to hold this women have helped make games was pretty cool, too! 5. I’m glad I decided to change jobs to continue serving position. Florida the great state Jimmy Buffet is a great that it is and deserve the ______humanity. Now I get to help make some of the most important decisions in our state! contemporary singer from Key West, front page, but we just ______Florida. He is known for his humorous don’t have enough room ______and upbeat songs. Many of his songs for them all. So keep on tell of areas that he has lived in turning the pages and find ______and experienced in Florida. Some out more about some of people like to think of him as the the greatest contemporary wealthiest beach bum in the world. men and women of our state. Everyone admires someone. Before you begin to write, think Teachers: about someone you admire. Why do you Your FREE Studies Weekly Future Famous Floridians look up to that person? Brainstorm a list online subscription is waiting for you! You’ve been reading all about fabulous Think again! have you try out for the Florida Youth Orchestra. of reasons. Now write 150 words about the Floridians who are making quite a splash in Florida is the perfect place for you to grow into They’ve been at it since 1988, and with seven person and explain why you admire him www.studiesweekly.com/register the world. You know who else is set to make a whoever you want to be. Is basketball your talent? different levels of performance, you’re bound to fit or her. difference out there? You. Check out the Orlando Magic basketball camp. right in! That’s right, the next great American from Who better than your favorite NBA team to coach Maybe you like getting your hands dirty. Great. Florida could be looking back at you from a mirror you into stardom? every morning. You don’t think you’re special? Not for you? Let’s get into music. In fact, let’s continued on Page 4 Future Famous Floridians 1. List five Florida women whose continued from Page 1 hard work brought national or international attention to our state. Have you heard of the Florida Future Farmers of America (FFA)? 2. If you could go to both Columbia No? In just a couple of years, you can join your middle school and Suwannee Counties, which Florida FFA and learn all about a career in agriculture. would you visit first? Why? Camp Kennedy Space Center Science kid, eh? Well, Florida is the BEST! How about the 3. Why was Paula Hawkins’ win of a senate seat in Washington, D.C., such a Camp Kennedy Space Center? Kids come from all over the world positive story for Florida? 4. List five Florida men whose hard work brought national or international to experience Florida. You’re so lucky. Florida Next Generation Sunshine State Standards: SS.4.A.1.1: Analyze primary and secondary resources to identify significant individuals and events throughout Florida history. Still haven’t found what you’re looking for? Don’t worry. attention to our state. SS.4.A.1.2: Synthesize information related to Florida history through print and electronic media. SS.4.A.6.3: Describe the contributions of significant individuals to Florida. SS.4.A.8.1: Identify Florida is huge and filled with opportunities for kids just like you. 5. What was the “magic” that Don Shula said helped him win so many football Florida’s role in the Civil Rights Movement. SS.4.A.9.1: Utilize timelines to sequence key events in Florida history. SS.4.C.2.2: Identify ways citizens work together to influence government and help Ask your parents, teacher or friendly local librarian if you want to games? solve community and state problems. SS.4.G.1.1: Identify physical features of Florida. SS.4.G.1.2: Locate and label cultural features on a Florida map. SS.4.G.1.4: Interpret political and physical maps using map elements (title, compass rose, cardinal directions, intermediate directions, symbols, legend, scale, longitude, latitude). learn more. Who knows? Maybe someday you’ll be famous! so Hawkins took up the challenge. When the mayor refused to consider changing the city’s sewage system, Week 27 of 32 • Page 3 ida Flor Hawkins took it to the voters. Even though she wasn’t officially on the ballot, the townspeople elected Hawkins as their new mayor. As mayor, Hawkins was able to change things. She gave safe water to everyone TIMELINE Famous Floridians in the town. She never gave up and became known as “the battling housewife.” Years later, Hawkins became Florida’s first female senator. As a U.S. senator, Hawkins fought hard and won important victories for abused Here are just a few people who made history in Florida. women and children. Hawkins died in 2009 at the age of 82. The Korean Zora Neale Hurston liked writing stories as much as she liked hearing them. She grew up in War is Eatonville at the beginning of the 20th century. She paid close attention to the people at the local store when fought, was born and raised in any other coach in NFL history. Shula is also story appeared on the children’s page of The Janet Reno they told stories. Later, she lived in a lumber camp in Loughman. The workers around her came from all over 1950-1953 Miami. As a young girl, she used to go to the only coach to have a perfect season in NFL Washington Post. As an adult, she moved to the South. They told folk stories, chanted work songs, recited proverbs, sermons, and children’s rhymes, and work with her father, who was a newspaper football history. In 1972, the Miami Dolphins Florida. She wrote about nature and the people sang the blues. Hurston used what she heard to write books. Her most famous books are Their Eyes Were reporter for criminal trials. This experience won every single game with Shula’s coaching, around her. In 1938, she published her most Watching God and Dust Tracks on a Road. She also wrote poetry and more than 50 short stories. Hurston lived made a great impact on Reno, and she ended including the Super Bowl. He was inducted famous novel, The Yearling. The book won her last years as a poor servant. She died in 1960 and was buried in an unmarked grave. up serving as Dade County’s district attorney (enrolled) into the Pro Football Hall of Fame the Pulitzer Prize, one of the most important in 1997. awards for literature. It was also translated into for 15 years. In March 1992, Janet Reno made The Soviet history when she became the first woman 13 languages and made into a movie. Union U.S. attorney general. This meant she had the Ileana Ros-Lehtinen Ileana launches highest government position available as an Ros-Lehtinen was born in Miami in 1952. She lived in Sputnik into Paula Hawkins orbit, attorney (lawyer). was the first Hispanic woman to serve in the Maitland, Florida. She was 1957 Florida legislature. a wife and a stay-at-home mom of three children. was born in is a famous Rosemary Barkett Gloria Estefan The town’s water was Mexico into a family of nine children. When singer who moved from Havana, being contaminated she was seven years old, her parents moved the Cuba, to Miami as a young by sewage, family to Miami. At age 17, she became a nun. child. When she was 18, she President Later, she decided to serve people in another joined a band called the Miami John F. way. She chose a law career that eventually Sound Machine. Estefan received Kennedy is led her to become the first female justice on a psychology degree from the assassinated, the Florida Supreme Court. University of Miami when she was Nov. 22, 21. In 2001, she received a Grammy 1963 Frank Kuncir was a special agent. for Best Traditional Tropical Not all special agents work for the CIA Latin Album. or FBI. Kuncir was a special agent for the United States Fish and Wildlife Services in Marjorie Kinnan The United Fort Myers, Florida. In 2003, he was honored Rawlings began States for his role in protecting America’s wildlife writing at an early age. At fights in the resources with the National Fish and Wildlife age 11, she won a $2 prize Vietnam War, Foundation’s Guy Bradley Award. Kuncir was for a story she wrote. The 1964-1973 a great criminal investigator. He did a great deal to keep threats such as environmental hazards and contaminants away from wildlife. Kuncir also worked to protect bald eagles, migratory birds, and many other species that Americans love. Martin Luther King Jr. is Don Shula coached the Miami assassinated, Dolphins football team for 26 years. The April 4, people of Miami named one of their biggest 1968 and busiest expressways after him. Shula won Images, back row: Don Shula, Frank Kuncir; Second row: Rosemary Barkett, Paula Hawkins, Gloria Estefan, 347 games as an NFL head coach, more than Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings; Front row: Janet Reno, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Zora Neale Hurston

Mary McLeod Columbia and Key Deer Bethune: First Lady Suwannee How do people of Education become famous? There’s a beautiful little animal that can only be found in the As a little girl Counties Florida Keys. Maybe that’s where it got its name, the Key deer (just a in the 1800s, Mary Columbia County: The county seat, Lake City, has A lot of people from Florida have lucky guess). Some people call them toy deer, because they are just McLeod Bethune the right name for a town in this “Freshwater become famous. Some of them have picked cotton. two feet tall and weigh as little as 50 pounds. Their size is the only Capital of America,” where you can dive, swim, worked for the government, while others While she worked, canoe, raft or just tube down a lazy river, with no difference between the Key deer and the white-tailed deer, which are she chanted to theme park attached. You can also visit the Lake have been sports stars. Some people common throughout other parts of Florida and North America. They herself, “I’m goin’ City-Columbia County Historical Museum. The are famous for being in movies or on TV. prefer pine forests, but some have been found scrounging for food in to read, I’m goin’ museums is a great example of a historical house. It to read!” It wasn’t A person can also become famous for backyards. very common in shows a history of Columbia County and it includes Civil doing something that is very brave or Sadly, back in the 1940s, there were only about 50 Key deer left. those days for War artifacts. very kind. They are doing much better now, thanks to people like Marjory Stoneman Suwannee County: Start at the county seat of Live Oak and African Americans Think about someone you have heard Douglas, but there are still only about 800 Key deer in Florida. That to know how to take an agritour of the county. What will you see? All kinds makes this animal extremely endangered! read and write, but of things, including about who is famous. What did that little by little, she acres of blueberries person do to become well-known? Do you learned. But did she and an emu ranch. think that person deserves their fame? stop there? Are Emu in Florida? Why or why not? Share your thoughts you kidding? She You bet! Next, visit later became a teacher in a school she opened for African American some of the 70 with a classmate. girls. The school was a rented cottage with old boxes for desks, freshwater springs overturned baskets for chairs, burnt sticks for pencils and mashed in Suwannee. One elderberries for ink. Hardships didn’t stop Bethune. Outside of town, there was a piece of land people used as a dump. She bought it for great place is Wes $200 and began building. Earning money by selling vegetables, eggs, Skiles Peacock butter, brooms, baskets, rugs and beadwork, Bethune and her students Springs State Park, built building after building. Today, Bethune-Cookman University stands home of one of the as a tribute to her hard work. The words “Enter to Learn” are carved largest underground cave systems in the country. A favorite dive over the door of Faith Hall, the school’s first building. Wow! What a spot is Orange Grove sinkhole. great citizen of Florida. Week 27 of 32 • Page 4 WEEK 27 Men and Women Name ______of Florida

DOWN 1. a person who makes a choice on a ballot in an election 2. one’s chosen field of work 4. deer that can only be found in the Florida Keys 5. Columbia County’s county seat 8. enrolled