1. A Trio of American Heroes a teacher resource to use as you introduce three heroes Created by Jodi Simpson Second Grade Teacher Reidville Elementary School

2. American Hero Martin Luthur King, Jr. What Did Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Stand For? D...Determined Mind R...Relentless Spirit M...Miracles God performed through him A...The American he was R...Rights he fought for T...Truth he spoke I...Improvements he sought for all people N...Noble services he rendered L...Love he had for humanity U...Unity he taught us T...Trials he went through H...Heaven he said he would visit someday E...Eternal presence of Dr. King R...Rebuke he received while helping others K...King he was and...is I...Investments he made to mankind N...Non-violence philosophy he stood for G...God who sustained him J...Joy he must feel now R...Rest he now takes. For more information: http://www.kiddyhouse.com/Holi days/MLK/MLK.html http://www.kiddyhouse.com/Holi days/MLK/MLK.html http://www.stanford.edu/group/K ing/

3. American Hero Thomas Jefferson For more information visit: http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/tj3.html http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/tj3.html http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/mtjhtml/mtjhome.html This powerful advocate of liberty was born in 1743 in Albermarle County, Virginia, inheriting from his father, a planter and surveyor, some 5,000 acres of land, and from his mother, a Randolph, high social standing. He studied at the College of William and Mary, then read law. In 1772 he married Martha Wayles Skelton, a widow, and took her to live in his partly constructed mountaintop home, Monticello. Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of Independence and third President of the United States, was this nation's greatest champion of the rights of man.

4. American Hero Abraham Lincoln http://members.aol.com/RVSNorton/Lincoln2.html http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/al16.html