Curated Free MY HERO Resources and Lesson Ideas to Use for Virtual Education and Homeschooling
April is Poetry Month:
Students are encouraged to submit original poems to the MY HERO Mattie J. T. Stepanek Poetry Contest
Submit your work for the Mattie J.T. Stepanek Poetry Contest. All Ages Deadline: 5/1
Students make films illustrating poems or a spoken word performance. With examples.
Students Examples of Using Film to Illustrate a Poem
Taft High School student, Matthew Marroquin, takes on the task of illustrating this poem by Robert Frost.
Taft High School student, Deana Saito, creates a beautiful visual expression of the poem by William Wordsworth.
Choose an Original Poem or a Poem Written by a Favorite Poet to Illustrate. Below is an example.
Write a 5 Paragraph Essay about Your Hero
The Five Paragraph Essay Outline provides guidance for teaching and writing high school-level essays about heroes.
Sample High School Essays
Students can share their Hero Essays, Art and Film through our Create Program
Outstanding essays submitted to MY HERO will be considered for a certificate/t-shirt prize or be featured on the Story Homepage.
Lesson Plan: Use this lesson plan as a way to integrate MY HERO resources with students.
This all-ages, MY HERO lesson plan is useful for helping your students create meaningful hero essays.
Learn about a New Hero Every Day of the Year: Use the MY HERO Calendar in the Classroom
Organizer created on 3/18/2020 4:14:37 PM by Laura Nietzer
Last edited 3/25/2020 3:50:10 PM by Laura Nietzer
