Hero+Discussion+Responses

**3R’s Discussion Points - as easy as** **1,2,3** **...**

RESPONSE Guidelines: Use these guidelines (1, 2, 3 format) below to create your reading response: 1. CONTENT - Ideas you learned or found interesting - Include: 2. CRAFT - Vocabulary, brushstrokes, or sentences you found interesting - 3. CONCERNS- While reading, something you questioned, were confused about, or have need for additional information

Response #2 1- List two characteristics of your biographical character. 2- Support your thinking with textual evidence and explanation. 3- Do you consider your character a hero? Why or why not?

Response #3
 * 1) Describe any life experiences (actions, accomplishments, adversities) that demonstrate that your person is truly a hero.**
 * 2) T.A. Barron's uses the INNER QUALITIES or in other words, character traits of COURAGE, FAITH, PERSEVERANCE, HOPE, GENEROSITY, COMPASSION, STRENGTH, WISDOM, HUMOR to describe hero's. What is the strongest hero quality your hero possess? Please use two quotes from your book to exemplify your choice.**
 * 3) If you could ask your hero, or talk to your hero about anything, what would it be?**
 * Example Post:**

=__ Hero on the Spot Response __= Prepare your responses on a google doc titled firstnamelastinitial - Hero on the Spot (You are encouraged to copy and paste these directions onto your document in preparation for your reading responses.) Before begining to read acknowledge our purpose for reading this chapter is to help us determine what is important:

3- After reading the chapter - return to the quote by Eleanor Roosevelt - What is she trying to say?...in your own words...
=== 4- Think of someone, from real life or fiction, you consider a to be a HERO ON THE SPOT. Write a well-developed paragraph that explains what did that person do to make her or him a hero in your eyes. Include the character traits that were exhibited by this person. === ====== ===5. Sometimes a book is a WINDOW, offering a glimpse into a world beyond our own. Other times a book is a MIRROR, offering us the opportunity to see ourselves, to reflect on the choices we make. Explain how this chapter was a WINDOW, as well as offer your insight on how this chapter was a MIRROR.===

As you read - keep a list of interesting/impactful/important words that you may want to use in your own writing: __SURVIVOR HERO__ Response
 * ==__VERBS__== || ==__ADVERBS__== || ==__ADJECTIVES__== || ==__Figurative Language/Imagery/Craft__== ||

Prepare your responses on a google doc titled firstnamelastinitial - SURVIVOR HERO (You are encouraged to copy and paste these directions onto your document in preparation for your reading responses.)

Before begining to read acknowledge our PURPOSE for reading this chapter is to help us determine what is important:

1- What is the author's definition of a SURVIVOR HERO?
===2- What qualities does it takes to be a SURVIVOR HERO, and/or are exemplified by one?=== ===3- After reading the chapter - return to the quote by Alfred Tennyson, "Ulysses"===

- What is he trying to say?...in your own words...
=== 4- Think of someone, from real life or fiction, you consider a to be a SURVIVOR HERO. Write a well-developed paragraph that explains what did that person do to make her or him a hero in your eyes. Include the character traits that were exhibited by this person. === ====== ===**5. Some say that heroes are not made, but are born. In other words, you can't set out in life to become a hero; instead, there's something in you from birth that makes you heroic.=== Do you agree with this statement? Why or why not?

===As you read - keep a list of interesting/impactful/important words that you may want to use in your own writing:===
 * ==__VERBS__== || ==__ADVERBS__== || ==__ADJECTIVES__== || ==__Figurative Language/Imagery/Craft__== ||