Season 2
The CLC Super Sleuth Podcast goal is to enhance students' critical thinking, critical listening, notetaking, and research skills. While developing these skills we hope you also enjoy the podcast.
- Episode 10
Clues For Episode 10
Vocabulary Clues For Episode 10
Note-taking SheetThe clues came from the following book:
A Voice named Aretha written by Katheryn Russell-Brown and illustrated by Laura FreemanMore Information:
- Check out Aretha Franklin’s YouTube videos, especially when she sang at the Kennedy Center honoring Carole King
- Episode 9
Clues For Episode 9
Vocabulary Clues For Episode 9
Note-taking SheetThe clues came from the following book:
The Polio Pioneer written by Linda Elovitz Marshall and illustrated by Lisa AnchMore Information:
- In the two years before the vaccine was widely available, the average number of polio cases in the U.S. was more than 45,000. By 1962, that number had dropped to 910.
- Episode 8
Clues For Episode 8
Vocabulary Clues For Episode 8
Note-taking SheetThe clues came from the following book:
Young Jim Thorpe Bright Path written and illustrated by Don BrownMore Information:
- Legend has it that when Jim was awarded the gold medal, the king of Sweden said, "You, sir, are the greatest athlete in the world."
- He was voted the greatest American football player of the first half of the 20th century
- Episode 7
Clues For Episode 7
Vocabulary Clues For Episode 7
Note-taking SheetThe clues came from the following book:
Ruth Bader Ginsburg: The Case of R.B.G. Vs. Inequalityy written by Jonah Winter and illustrated by Stacy InnerstMore Information:
- During the 1900s there was a widely held belief that a woman’s place was in the home
- She was the second women to serve on the Supreme Court
- Inducted into the Women's Hall of Fame
- Episode 6
Clues For Episode 6
Vocabulary Clues For Episode 6
Note-taking SheetThe clues came from the following book:
Charlie Chaplin written by Al BerengerMore Information:
- Charlie had a brother, Sydney, who stayed with him his entire life.
- The applause at his special Academy Ceremony in 1972 lasted more than ten minutes which is the longest in the history of the Awards ceremony
- Check out more interesting facts in this book
- Episode 5
Clues For Episode 5
Vocabulary Clues For Episode 5
Note-taking SheetThe clues came from the following book:
Sisters & Champions The True Story of Venus and Serena Williams written by Howard Bryant and illustrated by Floyd CooperMore Information:
- Her favorite city in the world is Rome
- Other than dogs, her favorite animals are tigers
- Holds the record for the most women's singles matches won at major tournaments
- Episode 4
Clues For Episode 4
Vocabulary Clues For Episode 4
Note-taking SheetThe clues came from the following book:
A Ben of All Trades: The Most Inventive Boyhood of Benjamin Franklin written by Michael J. Rosen and illustrated by Matt TavaresMore Information:
- Hide not your Talents; they for Use were made. What’s a Sundial in the shade! Poor Richard’s Almanac, 1750
- He is the only founding father who signed all four major documents of the founding of the U.S.: The Declaration of Independence, the Treaty of Alliance with France, the Treaty of Paris, and the United States Constitution
- Episode 3
Clues For Episode 3
Vocabulary Clues For Episode 3
Note-taking SheetThe clues came from the following book:
Wilma Unlimited How Wilma Rudolph Became the World's Fastest Woman written by Kathleen Krull and illustrated by David DiazMore Information:
- When Wilma returned home from Rome, her family was waiting for her, and so was all of Clarksville, Tennessee. The huge parade and banquet held in her honor were the first events in the town’s history to include both blacks and whites
- After she retired from her career as a runner in 1962, Wilma became a second-grade teacher and a high school coach.
- She funded the nonprofit Wilma Rudolph Foundation to nurture young athletes and to teach them that they, too, can succeed despite all odds against them.
- She was the first member of her family to go to college
- The 1960 Olympics was the first Olympics showed on TV
- Episode 2
Clues For Episode 2
Vocabulary Clues For Episode 2
Note-taking SheetThe clues came from the following book:
Thanks To Frances Perkins Fighter For Workers' Rights written by Deborah Hopkinson and illustrated by Kristy CaldwellMore Information:
- Her grandmother told her whenever a door of opportunity opened, Frances should go through.
- Her mother taught her to help neighbors in need.
- Frances went to college when few women did.
- She worked in New York City, where immigrants lived in crowded ramshackle tenements.
- Men, women, and even children toiled day after day in dirty, unsafe factories called sweatshops.
- Frances began by learning all she could by visiting factories, sweatshops, laundries looking for fire and accident hazards.
- She was often the only one in the halls of government.
- 1n 1912, she helped get a bill passed to limit the workweek to fifty-four hours for women and children.
- As more new laws to benefit workers came into being, the state of New York became a model for the nation.
- To serve as FDR “s Secretary of Labor, she had to move from New York to Washington D.C., leaving her teenage daughter and a husband who was often ill in the care of others
- She became the first woman to serve in a presidential cabinet and served twelve years (1933-1945), becoming the longest-serving Secretary in history.
- Episode 1
Clues For Episode 1
Vocabulary Clues For Episode 1
Note-taking SheetThe clues came from the following book:
Muhammad Ali A Champion Is Born written by Gene Barretta and illustrated by Frank MorrisonMore Information:
- Won Olympic gold medal at 19
- Quotation “Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee-his hands can’t hit what his eyes can’t see”
- Near the end of his career at age 36 wins a rematch against Champion Leon Spinks to become the first boxer to win the World Heavy Weight championship 3 times.
- In 1984 at age 42 diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease.