Activities
- For the artistic: Create a comic book strip where you (or a character of your creation) is the hero.
- What is your power?
- What about you makes you heroic?
- What about yourself do you struggle with/what is your fear?
- How do you overcome your fear?
- Be sure to create another character in which your hero helps in some way, you have to be a hero somehow!
- For the writer: Create a short story including similar themes mentioned above.
- For the researcher: Write an essay about a well known hero, fictional (comic book) or historical figure.
- What makes this individual heroic?
- What actions have they done/do
- How do others perceive them?
- How are they like a character(s) from Perry Moore's Hero? Or how are the different?
- Use at least three credible outside resources (other than the novel, Hero)
- For the ambitious: Organize a community event/Volunteer
- Be sure the event addresses themes relating to the novel
- Discrimination faced by Thom or Ruth and Jerome or even what Hal faced
- Encouraging others to believe in themselves
- Aiding those less fortunate than ourselves
- Volunteer (must be related to the novel in some way)
- Make a Wish Foundation
- Heroic Imagination Project (HIP)
- Write a short self evaluation of what you gained from the experience while referencing the novel
