Hero Project

Last week we started a new project about heroes. Our essential question for this project is; What are the attributes of a hero and how can I be one?  Each student was asked to pick a hero and begin researching their life story.  We are planning on assembling all of the information into a book that we publish as a class.  Each student is going to be asked to join a cause or find some way that they can make a heroic change in their life.

One of the activities we are currently working on is writing a persuasive essay.  Students are picking a topics that they can persuade others to make small but significant changes in their lives.  Some of the topics are; carpooling to school, riding bikes to school, eating healthy foods, playing less video games, and working on getting along with siblings.  Our final product will be a 5 paragraph essay with a formal introduction, 3 body paragraphs, and a conclusion paragraph.

Now that we have finished Holes and Island of the Blue Dolphins, we have started reading our next novels in book clubs.  In order to maintain a high student interest level, we had the class decide and vote on which books to read.  The class voted on My Brother Sam is Dead  (a historical fiction about the life of a young boy during the Revolutionary war), and Anne Frank the Diary of a Young Girl (a story of a girl hiding out in Holland during Nazi occupation).