1. Portrait Of A Hero Standard 1.1.6 Kelsey Zehr Education 357.002

2. Standard 1.1.6 – Chronological thinking, Historical Analysis and Interpretation, Research: Use terms related to time to sequentially order events that have occurred in the school. Example: Use the terms past and present; yesterday, today and tomorrow; and next week and last week. Activity: http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=262

4. What does a hero look like?

5. What characteristics must someone have to be considered a hero?

6. Who are some heroes from American history? How were they heroic?

7. Who are some famous heroes known today?

8. Who are your heroes?

9. What can previous heroes teach you about behaving like a hero?

12. Learn about heroes from U.S. history by observing details in pictures and listening to brief biographies of each figure and express why they are considered heroes.

14. Prepare a large chart, divided into three columns labeled TV, Movies, and Books.

15. Prepare another chart with three blank columns and three blank rows that can be filled in later. Leave the title blank, but leave room to add one later.

18. Briefly review the first chart with your class before presenting the second one.

19. Discuss the heroes one at a time and ask students if they think that certain hero has any of the characteristics labeled on the top of the chart. If they do, mark an X in that box.

20. As you fill out the chart with your class, point out that many of the heroes they named have many the same characteristics.

23. Give students time to look at each packet. Allow them to look at the pictures of each person and read some of the given information.

24. Next ask students the following questions:

25. What do you notice about this person?

26. Do you know a real of pretend person who looks like this?

27. Does this person look like a hero? What do you notice about how he or she is dressed?

28. Do you think the person could be alive today? Why or why not?

30. Discuss the information given in the packets with your students.

31. After going over the information, add each person’s name to the “What Makes A Hero” chart. Have students take turns placing X’s under the characteristics they feel are appropriate.

32. Lastly, ask each student to name heroic traits he or she admire in his or her real-life hero. Have students think about how they might behave in these same ways. Have students write about how they see these same heroic traits in themselves.

34. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html

35. http://www.npg.si.edu/

36. http://www.doe.in.gov/

37. Weatherford, Carole Boston. Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People To Freedom. Illustrated by Kadir Nelson. Hyperion Books, 2006.

38. Lawson, Robert. Ben and Me: An Astonishing Life of Benjamin Franklin by His Good Mouse Amos. Little, Brown Young Readers, 1988.