1. EVERYBODY NEEDS A HERO:
FIND ONE IN THE LIBRARY

2. What are the characteristics of a celebrity?
HERO VS. CELEBRITY
What are the characteristics of a hero?
What are the characteristics of a celebrity?

3. 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

4. Can you identify these explorers?
EXPLORER HEROES
Can you identify these explorers?
Are they heroes?
Matthew Henson Columbus discovers America Robert E. Perry

5. NATIVE AMERICAN HEROES
Do you know these people?
What hero characteristics do they have?
Pocohontas Saving Captain John Smith
Sequoyah with the Cherokee Alphabet

6. 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

7. Thomas A. Edison with the cylinder phonograph, 1878
Inventors – Heroes?
Thomas A. Edison with the cylinder phonograph, 1878
Orville & Lloyd Wright

8. African-American Heroes
Harriet Tubman
Jesse Owens – Olympic Champion
Marian Anderson

9. 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

10. 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

11. 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
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