This version of the gallery walk is easier to use with the assignment than a presentation.
These people showed:
Determination, compassion, ambition, strength,
endurance, honor, faith, courage, and discipline.
Each gallery slide depicts:
Challenges faced and the fight to overcome
- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
King faced many obstacles while on his mission for equality. He was arrested over twenty times for protesting. He was the object of several violent attacks, both to his person and his property. He received threatening phone calls, his home was bombed and set afire, and he was even stabbed.
2. J.K. Rowling
Not only did she fail to make progress on her first book, but after falling in and then out of love, she ended up with a failed marriage and a baby daughter she now had to raise alone. She had no job, no finished product and two mouths to feed. After sending her manuscript to 12 different publishers and getting rejected by every single one, Rowling began losing confidence in her Harry Potter book.
3. Albert Einstein
Einstein was no child prodigy; his grades were poor, his focus in the classroom was sporadic, and when he first tried to get into college, he failed the entrance exam.He skipped class, and his professors never took him seriously. Moreover, Einstein never performed spectacularly in school. He did so poorly that he nearly decided to drop out, and just sell life insurance. Einstein’s father died believing he was a complete failure. Einstein was absolutely heartbroken.
4. Michael Jordan
At the age of 15, his best friend LeRoy Smith and he were asked to try to qualify for the high school team. While the coach was impressed with Michael’s skill and speed, the youngster did not meet the minimum height requirement. He was devastated.“I have missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I have lost almost 300 games. On 26 occasions, I have been entrusted to take the game winning shot, and I missed. I have failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.” - Michael Jordan
5. Oprah Winfrey
She was born to a single teenage mother on welfare in rural Mississippi. She felt unwanted and was shuttled back and forth from her grandmother to her mother and then to her father by the time she was 14. She lived in poverty and suffered abuse for years.
https://www.learningliftoff.com/overcoming-obstacles-what-oprah-winfrey-learned-from-her-abusive-childhood/
6. Jacob Schick, USMC
“I’ve undergone 46 operations and 23 blood transfusions and endured countless hours of rehabilitation. I lost parts of my hand, arm and leg, but those weren’t the ‘worst’ of my injuries. I was labeled with two of the diagnoses most service members dread: traumatic brain injury and post-traumatic stress disorder. As I like to say, they are the gift that keeps on giving, because the mental pain I experienced was ten times worse than the physical pain.”
7. Ji-li Jiang
She and her family fell victim to the Cultural Revolution of Chairman Mao Tse Tung. Her father was forced by the Chinese government to do hard labor as punishment for his alleged anti-Communist sympathies, and she was ridiculed by classmates and prevented from taking part in Communist Youth activities.
8. Walt Disney
“When I was nine, my brother Roy and I were already businessmen. We had a newspaper route…delivering papers in a residential area every morning and evening of the year, rain, shine, or snow. We got up at 4:30 a.m., worked until the school bell rang and did the same thing again from four o’clock in the afternoon until supper time. Often I dozed at my desk, and my report card told the story.” Hoping to join the Army, he dropped out of school at 16. He was rejected, so instead he (again) lied about his age in order to join the American Ambulance Corps.
9. Chief Sitting Bull
Chief Sitting Bull led his people during years of resistance to United States government policies. In response (to Little Big Horn), the US government sent thousands more soldiers to the area, forcing many of the Lakotas to surrender over the next year. But Sitting Bull refused to surrender, and in May 1877 he led his band north to Wood Mountain, North-Western Territory
