Chapter 7: Part 1

1. Students who are Gifted and
Talented

2. • determine the great people of the 20th
century as discussed in six sections, and
• discuss the nature of human intellect as
expounded by philosophers,
psychologists, and educators through the
centuries.

3. Topics:
Great People of the 20th
century: Gifted and
Talented All
The Central Concepts of
Giftedness and Talent
Human Intelligence

4. Topics:
Great People of the
20th century: Gifted
and Talented All
The Central Concepts of
Giftedness and Talent
Human Intelligence

5. Topics:
Great People of the 20th
century: Gifted and
Talented All
The Central Concepts
of Giftedness and
Talent
Human Intelligence

6. Topics:
Great People of the 20th
century: Gifted and
Talented All
The Central Concepts of
Giftedness and Talent
Human
Intelligence

7. Great People of the 20th Century
“brim with insights into the life and
times of an unforgettable gallery of
men and women: the diplomats and
the warriors, the scientists and the
moguls, the explorers who surprised
us and the artist who moved us.”

8. ScientistsActivists
InnovatorsLeaders
Pioneers
4
5
6
1
2
3 Creators

9. The Leaders-the diplomats and dictators who have shaped
the destiny of nations:

10. The Leaders-the diplomats and dictators who have shaped
the destiny of nations:
Theodore Roosevelt
26th president of USA
3 C’s and Nobel Peace Prize
1

11. The Leaders-the diplomats and dictators who have shaped
the destiny of nations:
2 Woodrow Wilson
28th president of USA
League of Nations, Nobel Peace Prize

12. The Leaders-the diplomats and dictators who have shaped
the destiny of nations:
3
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
32nd president of USA
Led American through World War II

13. The Leaders-the diplomats and dictators who have shaped
the destiny of nations:
4 Harry S. Truman
33rd president of USA
Ended racial segregation in the
US Armed Forces

14. The Leaders-the diplomats and dictators who have shaped
the destiny of nations:
5
John F. Kennedy
35th president of USA
Awarded with the Navy and Marine
Corps Medal

15. The Leaders-the diplomats and dictators who have shaped
the destiny of nations:
6
Lyndon B. Johnson
36th president of USA
“Civil Rights Hero”

16. The Leaders-the diplomats and dictators who have shaped
the destiny of nations:
Richard Nixon
37th president of USA
Enforced several groundbreaking
environmental measures
7

17. The Leaders-the diplomats and dictators who have shaped
the destiny of nations:
8 9
Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin
Russian Marxist
Advocates of Socialist Internationalism

18. The Leaders-the diplomats and dictators who have shaped
the destiny of nations:
10 Mikhail Gorbachev
Russian President
Reformed the Socialist Party

19. The Leaders-the diplomats and dictators who have shaped
the destiny of nations:
11
Mao Zedang
Communist Leader
Established the People’s
Republic of China

20. The Leaders-the diplomats and dictators who have shaped
the destiny of nations:
12
Adolf Hitler
German Chancellor
Most powerful and notorious dictator
of 20th century

21. The Leaders-the diplomats and dictators who have shaped
the destiny of nations:
13
Winston Churchill
British Prime Minister
Led Great Britain successfully during the World
War II

22. The Leaders-the diplomats and dictators who have shaped
the destiny of nations:
14Charles de Gaulle
French President
He led the French military against Germany during the
World War II

23. The Activists-the men and women who fought for change
from outside the traditional halls of power:

24. The Activists-the men and women who fought for change
from outside the traditional halls of power:
1
Mohandas Gandhi
Father of the Nation
Fight racial oppression in South Africa

25. The Activists-the men and women who fought for change
from outside the traditional halls of power:
2 Nelson Mandela
First black President of South Africa
Fight discrimination against black in his country,
known as Apartheid

26. The Activists-the men and women who fought for change
from outside the traditional halls of power:
3
David Ben-Gurion
Israel’s founding Father

27. The Activists-the men and women who fought for change
from outside the traditional halls of power:
4 Ayatollah Khomeini
Leader of a revolution that
overthrow Iran’s monarchy and
establish the current Islamic
Republic

28. The Activists-the men and women who fought for change
from outside the traditional halls of power:
Albert Schweitzer
Provided medical care to the poor deep in
Africa’s tropical jungle
5

29. The Activists-the men and women who fought for change
from outside the traditional halls of power:
6
Dalai Lama of Tibet
14th , Tenzin Gyatso
Strived to make Tibet independent from the State
of China

30. The Activists-the men and women who fought for change
from outside the traditional halls of power:
7
Mother Teresa
Saint Teresa of Calcutta
Received Nobel Peace Prize for humanitarian work

31. The Activists-the men and women who fought for change
from outside the traditional halls of power:
8
John Dewey
Pragmatism
Instrumental in the progressive movement in education

32. The Activists-the men and women who fought for change
from outside the traditional halls of power:
Maria Montessorri
Montessorri system
9

33. The Activists-the men and women who fought for change
from outside the traditional halls of power:
10
Margaret Sanger
Planned parenthood

34. The Activists-the men and women who fought for change
from outside the traditional halls of power:
11
Billy Graham
American Southern Baptist
evangelist
Known for preaching the message
of Christianity around the world

35. The Activists-the men and women who fought for change
from outside the traditional halls of power:
12
Pope John XXIII
“The good pope”
Convened the Second Vatican Council

36. The Activists-the men and women who fought for change
from outside the traditional halls of power:
13
Pope John II
“War, never again”

37. The Activists-the men and women who fought for change
from outside the traditional halls of power:
14
Lech Walesa
Charismatic Leader of Solidarity

38. The Activists-the men and women who fought for change
from outside the traditional halls of power:
15
Corazon C. Aquino
First female President of the Philippine
Managed to lead a revolt

39. The Pioneers-the men and women who have dared to
explore new fields and break down barriers:

40. The Pioneers-the men and women who have dared to
explore new fields and break down barriers:
1
Charles Lindbergh
American pilot
Pioneered the first solo flight across the Atlantic
Ocean

41. The Pioneers-the men and women who have dared to
explore new fields and break down barriers:
Amelia Earhart
American pilot
The first woman to fly the Atlantic solo
2

42. The Pioneers-the men and women who have dared to
explore new fields and break down barriers:
Wilbur and Orville Wright
American pilots
Invented the first successful
airplane
3

43. The Pioneers-the men and women who have dared to
explore new fields and break down barriers:
4
Jacques Costeau
Explored the depths of the
oceans

44. The Pioneers-the men and women who have dared to
explore new fields and break down barriers:
5
Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norkey
Mountain climbers
They were the first people to ever reach the summit of
Mt. Everest

45. The Pioneers-the men and women who have dared to
explore new fields and break down barriers:
6
Rachel Carson
“Silent spring”

46. The Pioneers-the men and women who have dared to
explore new fields and break down barriers:
7
Sigmund Freud
“Psychoanalytic theory”

47. The Pioneers-the men and women who have dared to
explore new fields and break down barriers:
8
Carl Gustav Jung
“4 archetypes of
personality”

48. The Pioneers-the men and women who have dared to
explore new fields and break down barriers:
9
Jean-Paul Sartre
Atheistic existentialism

49. The Pioneers-the men and women who have dared to
explore new fields and break down barriers:
10
Jackie Robinson
First African-American to play major
league baseball

50. The Innovators-the gifted few whose visions have
changed our lives:

51. The Innovators-the gifted few whose visions have
changed our lives:
1
Henry Ford
Founder of Ford Motor Corporation

52. The Innovators-the gifted few whose visions have
changed our lives:
2
Eddie Rickenbacker
American pilot
“Ace of Aces”

53. The Innovators-the gifted few whose visions have
changed our lives:
3
William Randolph
Hearst
American newspaper publisher
“Yellow Journalism”

54. The Innovators-the gifted few whose visions have
changed our lives:
4
Walt Disney
American cartoon filmmaker

55. The Innovators-the gifted few whose visions have
changed our lives:
5
John Maynard Keynes
British economist
“Keynesianism”

56. The Innovators-the gifted few whose visions have
changed our lives:
6
David Sarnoff
Father of Mass Media

57. The Innovators-the gifted few whose visions have
changed our lives:
7
Ted Turner
Founder of Cable News
Network

58. The Innovators-the gifted few whose visions have
changed our lives:
8
Tom Watson Sr. and Jr.
Introduced the International Business
Machines or IBM

59. The Innovators-the gifted few whose visions have
changed our lives:
9
Bill Gates
American computer genius
Founder of Microsoft

60. The Scientists-the searchers whose work has
revolutionized human society in the span of only 100 years:

61. The Scientists-the searchers whose work has
revolutionized human society in the span of only 100 years:
1
Albert Einstein
Revolutionized modern physics with his work on
the atomic nature of matter

62. The Scientists-the searchers whose work has
revolutionized human society in the span of only 100 years:
2
Marie Curie
Discovered radium

63. The Scientists-the searchers whose work has
revolutionized human society in the span of only 100 years:
3
Alexander Fleming
Discovered the antibiotic
nature of penicillin

64. The Scientists-the searchers whose work has
revolutionized human society in the span of only 100 years:
4
Francis Crick and James
Watson
Identified the double helix structure of DNA

65. The Scientists-the searchers whose work has
revolutionized human society in the span of only 100 years:
5
Dr. Jonas E. Salk
Discovered polio vaccine

66. The Scientists-the searchers whose work has
revolutionized human society in the span of only 100 years:
6
Linus Pauling
Work on chemical bond

67. The Scientists-the searchers whose work has
revolutionized human society in the span of only 100 years:
7
Stephen Hawking
Best known scientist in the world

68. The Scientists-the searchers whose work has
revolutionized human society in the span of only 100 years:
8
Edwin Hubble
Proposed the theory of the
expansion of the universe

69. The Scientists-the searchers whose work has
revolutionized human society in the span of only 100 years:
9
Louis and Mary Leaky
Discovered bone fragments of apelike
prehumans called homo habilis

70. The Scientists-the searchers whose work has
revolutionized human society in the span of only 100 years:
10
Margaret Mead
Studied the nonliterate people of oceania

71. The Creators-the artists whose work has shaped and
mirrored the century:

72. The Creators-the artists whose work has shaped and
mirrored the century:
1
Pablo Picasso
Spanish visual artist and painter
Cubist style of art

73. The Creators-the artists whose work has shaped and
mirrored the century:
2
Mies Van Der Rohe
German architect
Modernism

74. The Creators-the artists whose work has shaped and
mirrored the century:
3
Alfred Stieglitz
The father of modern
photography

75. The Creators-the artists whose work has shaped and
mirrored the century:
4
Georgia O’ Keefe
First female American
modernist

76. The Creators-the artists whose work has shaped and
mirrored the century:
5
James Joyce
One of the most influential authors
of the 20th century

77. The Creators-the artists whose work has shaped and
mirrored the century:
6
Virginia Woolf
One of the most important feminist
writers

78. The Creators-the artists whose work has shaped and
mirrored the century:
7
George Bernard Shaw
Received Nobel Peace Prize for his
contributions in literature

79. The Creators-the artists whose work has shaped and
mirrored the century:
8
Laurence Olivier
One of the most acclaimed actors of the 20th
century

80. The Creators-the artists whose work has shaped and
mirrored the century:
9
Charlie Chaplin
One of the most important figures in the
history of film industry

81. The Creators-the artists whose work has shaped and
mirrored the century:
10
George Balanchine
Chief choreographer and co-founder of
the New York City Ballet

82. The Creators-the artists whose work has shaped and
mirrored the century:
11
Igor Stravinksy
Greatest composer of the
20th century

83. The Creators-the artists whose work has shaped and
mirrored the century:
12
Louis Armstrong
The most important figure in the
history of jazz

84. The Creators-the artists whose work has shaped and
mirrored the century:
13
George Gershwin
The man who brought “jazz into the
concert hall”

85. The Creators-the artists whose work has shaped and
mirrored the century:
14
Elvis Presley
Spread rock ‘n’ roll music across
countries

86. The Creators-the artists whose work has shaped and
mirrored the century:
15The Beatles
The first band that wrote their own
music

87. The Creators-the artists whose work has shaped and
mirrored the century:
Paul McCartney
Bassist
George Harrison
Lead Guitarist
John Lennon
Rhythm Guitarist
Ringo Starr
Drummer
The Beatles

88. The Leaders The Activists The Pioneers
1. Theodore Roosevelt
2. Woodrow Wilson
3. Franklin Delano
Roosevelt
4. Harry Truman
5. John Kennedy
6. Lyndon Johnson
7. Richard Nixon
8. Vladimir Lenin
9. Joseph Stalin
10.Mikhail Gorbacheu
11.Mao Zedong
12.Adolf Hitler
13.Winston Churchill
14.Charles de Gaulle
1. Mohandas Gandhi
2. Nelson Mandela
3. David Ben-Gurion
4. Ayatollah Khomeini
5. Albert Schweitzer
6. Dalai Lama
7. Mother Teresa
8. John Dewey
9. Maria Montessorri
10. Margaret Sanger
11. Billy Graham
12. Pope John XXIII
13. Pope John II
14. Lech Walesa
1.Charles Lindbergh
2.Amelia Earhart
3.Wilbur and Oville
Wright
4.Jacques Costeau
5.Edmund Hillary
and Tenzing
Norkey
6.Rachel Carson
7.Sigmund Freud
8.Carl Gustav Jung
9.Jean-Paul Sartre
10. Jackie Robinson

89. The Innovators The CreatorsThe Scientists
1.Henry Ford
2.Eddie
Rickenbacker
3.William Randolph
Hearst
4.Walt Disney
5.John Maynard
Keynes
6.David Sarnoff
7.Ted Turner
8.Tom Watson Sr.
and Jr.
9.Bill Gates
1.Albert Einstein
2.Marie Curie
3.Alexander
Fleming
4.Francis Crick and
James Watson
5.Dr. Jonas Salk
6.Linus Pauling
7.Stephen Hawking
8.Edwin Hubble
9.Louis and Mary
Leaky
10.Margaret Mead
1. Pablo Picasso
2. Mies Van Der Rohe
3. Alfred Stieglitz
4. Georgia O’ Keofe
5. James Joyce
6. Virginia Woolf
7. George Bernard Shaw
8. Laurence Olivier
9. Charlie Chaplin
10. George Balanchine
11. Igor Stravinsky
12. Louis Armstrong
13. George Gershwin
14. Elvis Presley
15. The Beatles

91. Leaders Activists Pioneers Innovators Scientists Creators

93. References:
Gregorio, J. (2007). Introduction to
Special Education. Chapter 7:
Students who are gifted and
talented. pp 120-127.
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