For younger children or beginning students, you may assign two to three sentences for each of the following questions. Now your students will write about their heroes. Also, encourage your students to contribute to the wall with heroes from their home cultures. You can include well-known heroes like Martin Luther King, Jr. Post a picture of that person as well as a description of him or her and what he or she has done for the community or the world. Start with examples from the books or people in your community. You can create a display of heroes in your classroom that you can add to throughout the year.
These people can be living or dead, people that your students know personally or people they have never met. In their groups, they should tell their classmates who their heroes are and what qualities those people possess that make them heroic as well as the heroic actions they have performed. If you are teaching adults, you may prefer to read portions of newspaper articles that talk about local people who have done heroic acts in the community rather than selections from the children’s book.Īfter examining the heroes in groups, encourage your students to share with one another who their heroes are. Then have that group discuss how that person either does or does not meet the class’ criteria for a hero. Do these people exemplify the qualities your students said a hero possesses? How do they meet those descriptions? How are they different? Break your students into groups and assign one hero to each group. After talking about the qualities of heroes, give your students some examples of heroes by reading selections from The Children’s Book of Heroes by William J. Allow your students to share what they value in the people they look up to. They may be characteristics such as bravery, fearlessness, strength, intelligence or boldness among many others. What makes a person a hero? Is it something he has done? Is it a quality she possesses? Start by explaining to your student what the word hero means, and then brainstorm the qualities that a hero might or should have.
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