EVERYBODY NEEDS A HERO: FIND ONE IN THE LIBRARY
What are the characteristics of a celebrity? HERO VS. CELEBRITY What are the characteristics of a hero? What are the characteristics of a celebrity?
HERO VS. CELEBRITY Courageous Performed brave deeds A famous person Noble A role model Compassionate Helps the needy Has noble qualities Excerpts, Webster, Unabridged, 2nd edition, 2001 A famous person A well-known person
Can you identify these explorers? EXPLORER HEROES Can you identify these explorers? Are they heroes? Matthew Henson Columbus discovers America Robert E. Perry
NATIVE AMERICAN HEROES Do you know these people? What hero characteristics do they have? Pocohontas Saving Captain John Smith Sequoyah with the Cherokee Alphabet
War Heroes Do you know a hero of war? How did he/she become a war hero? Washington Crossing the Delaware General Pershing – Chief of Staff of U.S. Army & WWI General
Thomas A. Edison with the cylinder phonograph, 1878 Inventors – Heroes? Thomas A. Edison with the cylinder phonograph, 1878 Orville & Lloyd Wright
African-American Heroes Harriet Tubman Jesse Owens – Olympic Champion Marian Anderson
Flies Across the Atlantic Molly Pitcher – Heroine of Monmouth - 1776 WOMEN - HEROINES Helen Keller & Anne Sullivan Amelia Earhart – Flies Across the Atlantic Molly Pitcher – Heroine of Monmouth - 1776
SPORTS HEROES Can an athlete be a hero? Did a woman play on the Indianapolis Clowns Negro League Baseball team? Who was it? Casey Stengel Jackie Robinson
Who is your favorite hero? Why? Where do you find heroes in the library? Biography Books – 92 & 920 Nonfiction history books – 900s Nonfiction sports books – 796 Historical fiction books READ!