Enrichment Ideas and Projects for Jeanie Blair, Author Extraordinaire

1. Research someone who has received a Purple Heart.  Write an essay about their life, or see if you can interview them.

2. Choose a topic below to research. Then write a report or make a Power Point presentation

• The Battle of the Bulge 
• Clara Barton's life
• The life of Susan B Anthony and/or Frederick Douglass to see how compassion played a huge role in their character
• Another civil rights activist
• Florence Nightingale Syndrome

3. Interview someone currently serving in the US military.  Why do you think it is important that we still have people who do this?

4. Write a card thanking someone in the military for their service or put together a care package. See guidelines at http://www.military.com/spouse/military-life/military-resources/how-to-support-our-troops.html

5. Write a new verse or two for the Strugglin' song to describe something tough you are going through or have gone through.

References for Jeanie Blair, Author Extraordinaire

Purple Heart

• http://www.veteransofthebattleofthebulge.org
• http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk
• http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/world-war-two/famous-battles-of-world-war-two/the-battle-of-the-bulge/
• http://historywarsweapons.com/battle-of-the-bulge/
• http://www.recognizethesacrifice.org/purple-heart-criteria.html

Clara Barton

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clara_Barton
• http://www.geni.com/people/Capt-Steven-Barton/6000000003031445195
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Committee_of_the_Red_Cross

Military care package ideas

• http://www.equipped.com/deployed_military_suggestions.htm