What makes a HERO?

 

The essential question “What makes a hero” is explored through these lesson plans and activities.

http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=251

http://www.education-world.com/a_lesson/00-2/lp2282.shtml

Here are two technology sites that might be helpful with the HERO literacy project.
http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil/
Filimenatility was created as a website that provides teachers with templates on Webquests, Scavenger Hunts, and Hot Lists.

http://www.portaportal.com/
Another tool for book marking online resources for students.  There is a step by step tutorial.

Just for fun.
http://puzzlemaker.school.discovery.com
Puzzlemaker is a puzzle generation tool for teachers, students, and parents.  You can create your own customized word search, crossword, or math puzzles.

Author and Literature Resources

The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton

• http://www.sehinton.com/
• http://www.webenglishteacher.com/hinton.html
• http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/outsiders/
• http://www.trinity.wa.edu.au/plduffyrc/subjects/english/fiction/hinton.htm

Soul Surfer by Bethany Hamilton

• http://www.bethanyhamilton.com/
• http://www.myhero.com/myhero/hero.asp?hero=Bethany_SJH_

Dark Waters by Catherine MacPhail

• http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/m/catherine-macphail/
• http://www.ncbf.org.uk/03/macphail/macphail.html

The Cage by Ruth Minsky Sender

• http://www.iearn.org/hgp/aeti/aeti-1998-no-frames/ruth-minsky-sender.htm
• http://www.funtrivia.com/trivia-quiz/History/The-Cage-by-Ruth-Minsky-Sender-132914.html
• http://fcit.coedu.usf.edu/Holocaust/default.htm A teachers guide to the Holocaust

Watership Down by Richard Adams

• http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/watership/ Spark Notes
• http://www.answers.com/topic/watership-down
• http://www.apstrategies.org/download/vocab/novels/Watership%20Down.pdf

Homecoming by Cynthia Voigt

• http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/voigt.htm
• http://www.webenglishteacher.com/voigt.html
• http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=171

The Seeing Stone by Kevin Crossley-Holland

• http://www.meettheauthor.com/bookbites/192.html

It’s Not About the Bike by Lance Armstrong and Sally Jenkins

• http://www.lancearmstrong.com/
• http://www.livestrong.org/site/c.jvKZLbMRIsG/b.594849/k.CC7C/Home.htm
• http://www.biography.com/search/article.do?id=9188901

My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult

• http://www.jodipicoult.com/
• http://www.readinggroupguides.com/guides3/my_sisters_keeper1.asp
• http://www.bookbrowse.com/reading_guides/detail/index.cfm?book_number=141

Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World by Jennifer Armstrong

• http://www.kodak.com/US/en/corp/features/endurance/
• http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/shackleton/
• http://www.antarcticconnection.com/antarctic/shackleton/index.shtml