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Standards of Learning
English
Oral Language K.2, 1.2, 2.3
Writing 1.12, 2.11
History and Social Science
History K.1, 1.2, 1.3
Civics K.8, 1.10, 1.12, 2.10, 2.11, 2.12
Correlations
to VA
SOL and Student
Expectations
Leadership Student Expectations
EC.4: Characteristics of leaders |
Instructional Activity or Strategy
My Hero
A schoolwide story-writing contest focusing on each child’s chosen
hero can introduce the characteristics of leaders and the factors that
make a person a hero. Children can also identify their own leadership
traits and behaviors.
Steps To Complete the Activity
Ask the student authors of the essays to include answers to the following
questions. Children may dictate their papers.
- Who is your hero?
- What happened to make this person a hero?
- When did he or she live?
- Why is the person your hero?
- In what ways are you like and different from your hero?
Resources
Teacher-selected stories about heroes; fiction or nonfiction, historical
or present-day
Teacher’s Notes
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