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Discover how the Olympics, the Paralympics, the Special Olympics, and their athletes make the world a better place. With TIMEA(c) content, this high-interest book will keep grade 6 students engaged in reading as they build their critical literacy skills.

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Publié par	Teacher Created Materials
Date de parution	01 août 2018
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9780743921008
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	2 Mo

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Ben Nussbaum

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Rachelle Cracchiolo, M.S.Ed ., Publisher
Conni Medina, M.A.Ed., Managing Editor
Nika Fabienke, Ed .D., Series Developer
June Kikuchi, Content Director
Susan Daddis, M.A.Ed., Editor
Kevin Pham, Graphic Designer
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Names: Nussbaum, Ben, 1975- author .
Title: Showdo wn : Olympics / Ben Nussbaum.
Description: Huntington Beach, CA : T eacher Created Materials, 2019. |
Includes index. | Audience: Grade 4 to 6.
Identiﬁers: L CCN 2017056312 (print) | L CCN 2018010926 (ebook) | ISBN
9781425849993 (e-book) | ISBN 9781425849993 (pbk .)
Subjects: LCSH: Olympics-- Juvenile literature. | Sportsmanship--Juvenile
literature.
Classiﬁcation: L CC GV721.53 (ebook) | L CC GV721.53 .N87 2019 (print) | DDC
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T able of C ont ent s
Olympic Ideals ................................................................ 4
A Global Gathering ........................................................ 6
All-Around Champs ...................................................... 14
Unlikely W inners .......................................................... 25
Spreading the Olympic Spirit ........................................ 34
Celebrating the Olympic Spirit ..................................... 41
Glossary ........................................................................ 42
Index ............................................................................. 44
Check It Out! ............................................................... 46
T ry It! ............................................................................ 47
About the Author ........................................................... 48
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Olympic Id eal s
Can sports make the world a better place? Pierre de
Coubertin (duh koo-behr -TEHN) thought so. The French
educator had big dreams—and a very specic plan.
Inspired by ancient Greek sporting e vents that brought
together ri val cities, he wanted to create an athletic festi val
that would bring together the whole world.
In 1896, his vision ga ve birth to the rst modern
Olympics. The y were held in Athens, Greece.
De Coubertin did not org anize the Olympics just to
nd out who could run the fastest or who could jump the
farthest. In a poem, de Coubertin captured the spirit he
wanted for the Olympics. “O sport, you are peace! Y ou
f orge happy bonds between people, ” he wrote.
For o ver one hundred years, the Olympics hav e brought
people together , proving that competition can create
community .
Olympic A rt ?
From 1912 to 1948, the Olympics
included an art competition.
Mixing art and sports was part
of de Coubertin’s unique vision.
DeCouber tin even won a gold
medal for his poem “Ode to Sport.”
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Pierre de Coubertin
All-Arou nd Sportsma n
De Coubertin was passionate about
rugby . He was inducted into the
Wor ld Rugby Hall of Fame for his
work promoting the sport.
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A G lobal G at he r ing
Athletes from 14 nations entered the ﬁrst Games.
The Olympics have grown in size ever since. The 2016
Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro played host to
athletes from more than 200 nations. Almost every
country in the world sent at least one athlete to Rio.
Spectators travel from around the world come to
cheer at the Games, too. Half a million foreigners went
to Rio to watch the Games. The city was happy to
welcome such diversity .
About 3.5 billion people watched the Rio Games
on television. That’ s half the people in the world!
For comparison, about 100 million people watch the
Super Bowl each year . More than any other event, the
Olympics truly unite the planet.
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