New Inspiration: Book about Famous Women

I stumbled upon this book of a colleague's, Amelia to Zora: Twenty-Six Women Who Changed the World. At first I was disappointed to not see
any dancers in the book, but on second look at the book….

Going through the alphabet, 26 amazing women are highlighted
including:

Amelia Earhart

Dolores Huerta

Maya Lin

Zora Neale Hurston

I think this book could be a great starting point for a solo
project with students in 3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, and 6^th
grades. I am envisioning….

Each student selecting one of the women in the book and
creating a short solo to represent the woman. Reading the text about each
woman, students could circle 10 key words/descriptors and then create a
movement phrase based on those words. Students could search on the internet for
images of their famous woman, and use these images to inspire a
starting and ending shape for their movement phrases.

Cynthia Chin-Lee has also written a similar book about
famous men, Akira to Zoltan: Twenty-Six Men Who Changed the World.