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Be your own hero: activities for middle-level social studies classes.

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From: The Clearing House
Date: 19980701
Author:Benes, Clarance H.; Steinbrink, John E.

Social science classes may support the transition of students from childhood to adulthood by implementing an activity which examines the nature of heroes. This exploration allows students to determine how people achieve heroic status and may make them look for the hero within themselves.

Everyone wants to be a hero, just show them the way and they will.

- Thomas Carlyle

Are you up to your destiny?

- Shakespeare, Hamlet

Contemporary heroes are idolized by autograph seekers, paparazzi, and sport and movie memorabilia collectors. But the term hero has become somewhat meaningless ...

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