TES Global
Tes: Much Ado: Relationships With Leonarto and Hero
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a series of lessons focusing on relationships in Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing including the relationship between Benedick and Beatrice, Claudio and Hero, and Hero and her father...
National Endowment for the Humanities
Neh: Edsit Ement:portrait of a Hero
Discussing real life heroes and heroines and viewing their pictures will help students learn about reading and writing biographies. A writing rubric assessment is included in this series of activities designed to teach about heroes and...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Back to School: Activity Starters: Hero Elementary
Be deliberate when inviting your student to watch a PBS KIDS show. These resources can help by adding meaningful conversation and easy activities to their experience watching Hero Elementary.
National Gallery of Art
National Gallery of Art: Quiet Heroes & Heroines
Students will learn the biblical story of Daniel in the lions' den as an example of a man who showed quiet bravery and conviction to his beliefs. They will research a "quiet" hero/heroine from the twentieth century and write an essay...
South Carolina Educational Television
Etv: Bell South Digital Storyteller: Generations of Heroes
Information and advice for participating in a digital storytelling project that documents the experiences and memories of those who have served the United States in war or other military conflicts. Step-by-step instructions, useful...
John F. Kennedy Center
The Kennedy Center: Multi Media Hero Analysis
Using what they learn about how heroes are depicted in art, literature, and music, students create their own definition of a hero, and then write an essay based on a hero they wish to research.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Heroes Around Us
Instructional lesson that allows students to examine and reevaluate their idea of a "Hero." After they first think of their own "Hero," they study definitions and examples from literature and have the opportunity to modify their opinion.
Scholastic
Scholastic Instructor: Hooray for Heroes
Find out what characteristics define a hero when you check out this resource. This site provides activities and lesson plans.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Heroes Are Made of This: Studying the Character of Heroes
Contains plans for six lessons that teach about the characteristics of heroes. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in the lessons as well as assessment and reflection activities.
CommonLit
Common Lit: Themes: Honor & Courage: What Makes a Hero?
This is a collection of Grade-Leveled texts (3-12) to address the question, "What makes a hero?" Select a grade level and a collection of on grade-level reading passages on the topic comes up. [Free account registration required for...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Exploring Heroes in Today's Society
This lesson allows students to examine traditional definitions of heroes and listen to contemporary songs about heroes to decide how they define a hero in today's society. This lesson was designed to be used at the beginning of twelfth...
East of England Broadband Network
E2 Bn: History's Heroes: Your Heroes
This teacher directed activity allows pupils to put entries about heroes up on the site. Students could write about a person whom they regard as a hero. This will give them plenty of practice in a range of skills, including enquiry,...
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Scholastic
Scholastic: Mythological Hero Chart [Pdf]
This is a PDF graphic organizer designed to highlight the attributes of three mythological heroes: Hercules, Perseus, and Jason.
University of Florida
Baldwin Library: Heroes
A scanned copy of the 1880 publication of Heroes by Charles Kingsley, a book of Greek myths for children.
East of England Broadband Network
E2 Bn: History's Heroes: National Heroes
Who is a hero? What qualities do you think of when determining a hero? When do you decide someone is a hero? This unit asks these questions, making students think about the meaning of a hero and who emulates that meaning. Meet a few...
East of England Broadband Network
E2 Bn: History's Heroes: How Many Ways Are There to Be a Hero?
What makes a hero? Is there any one thing that makes someone achieve that status or are there many different ways people become heroes to others? This unit delves into the question and makes students put on their thinking caps to...
East of England Broadband Network
E2 Bn: History's Heroes: The Heroine and the Holocaust
A history unit taking a close look at Poland during World War II. Meet the courageous Irena Sendlerowa, who helped save thousands of children. Activities expanding students' understanding of this hero and how Poland was involved in the...
East of England Broadband Network
E2 Bn: History's Heroes: What Is a Hero?
Ask students, "What is a hero?" You are sure to get all sorts of answers from them. This is the perfect opportunity to guide them. Have students think about the things that make a hero and then design their own with a drag and drop...
World Wide School
World Wide School: Etext of "Heroes and Hero Worship"
This site provides the complete etext for Thomas Carlyle's "Heroes and Hero Worship."
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: The Hero's Journey: Life's Great Adventure, Reg Harris[pdf]
This is the three-page PDF article "The Hero's Journey: Life's Great Adventure" by Reg Harris which outlines the characteristics of the journey motif in literature including the basic eight-step journey pattern.
BBC
Bbc: 60 Second Shakespeare: 60 Second Star: "She's Not My Hero"
This is a 60 Second Star: "She's Not My Hero" news article about characters and events in Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing. It hightlights the plot, themes, and characters of the play in what the form of a new story.
Other
The Giraffe Heroes Project
The Giraffe Heroes Project honors people "who stick their necks out for the common good." This site tells the stories of these ordinary people who have shown the character to stand up against injustice or misfortune in real, effective...
PBS
Pbs: In Search of Myths & Heroes: Myths & Archetypes
PBS: In Search of Myths & Heroes: Myths & Archetypes defines and describes different types of myths and archetypes using text, quiz format, video clips, an episode guide for the video series.
Other
Hsi: Virginia at the Crossroads: Nathaniel Bacon: Hero or Traitor?
Activity in which students investigate the rebellious acts of Nathaniel Bacon against the royal Governor of Virginia, 1676 and decide whether he was a traitor or a hero.
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