To Fly: The Story of The Wright Brothers

By:Wendie Old
Illustrated by: Robert Andrew Parker
Biography
~This is a great biography about the Wright Brothers who were the first in flight. The book starts off talking about how the brothers grew up in Daton Ohio and being very interested in flight. They started off making kites as selling them to friends for extra money. During high school Orville started a print business to make money as well. Orville and Wilber not long after, started getting into the new fad of bicycles. They began designing, and creating bicycles, and moved their print shop upstairs and the bike shop downstairs. The book goes through and talks about how the Wright Brothers began tinkering with gilders and trying to make controlable. The Wright brothers took their gliders to Kitty Hawk North Carolina to try out their inventions. They tried and failed many times, having to go back to Ohio and re work their calculations. Finally in 1903 Orville and Wilber finally got it right. They flew the first maned air craft in Kitty Hawk North Carolina and were known as the pioneers of flight.
~This would be a great book to use during a study of North Carolina history. It is important for students to know important historical events from North Carolina, and this event is one that changed the world. To apply this in the classroom I would have students make a timeline of theWright Brothers liffe and how they came to invent the first manned flying machine. Students can do this on the computer, and add pictures, or they can do it on paper and draw their own pictures.