Table of Contents
PROLOGUE
A SONG
OF
GREATNESS
CHIPPEWA SONG
CREATING CONTEXT
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Boy, Do We Ever Need a Hero • Concept Vocabulary
CLUSTER ONE
W HAT A RE S OME T YPES
Thinking Skill
CLASSIFYING
H EROES ?
13
autobiography
14
editorial essay
22
Greek myth
26
poem
33
memoir
34
article
39
OF
Older Run
G ARY P A U L S E N
The Man in the Water
R OG E R R O S E N B L AT T
The Hero’s Test
A LIS O U N W I T T I N G
Birdfoot’s Grampa
J OSE P H B R U C H A C
The Teacher Who Changed My Life
N ICH O L A S G A G E
Flying in the Face of the Führer
P HIL T AY L O R
Responding to Cluster One
Writing Activity
SKETCH A HERO
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CLUSTER TWO
W HAT M AKES
Thinking Skill
ANALYZING
A
H ERO ?
43
Tough Alice
J ANE Y O L E N
short story
44
essay
54
autobiography
56
poem
63
Arthurian legend
64
drama
72
Excerpt from Great Plains
I AN F R A Z I E R
The Letter “A” from My Left Foot
C HR I S T Y B R O W N
Those Winter Sundays
R OB E R T H AY D E N
Sir Bors Fights for a Lady
R OSE M A RY S U T C L I F F
Elizabeth Blackwell: Medical Pioneer
J OAN N A H A L P E R T K R A U S
Responding to Cluster Two
CLUSTER THREE
Thinking Skill
88
SHORT AND SWEET
Writing Activity
H ERO
OR
N OT ?
89
EVALUATING
Hero’s Return
K RIS T I N H U N T E R
short story
90
A Couple of Really Neat Guys
D AV E B A R RY
satire
100
short story
104
essay
114
Time for a Hero
B RIA N M. T H O M S E N
The Unknown Hero
R EBE C C A C H R I S T I A N
Responding to Cluster Three
Writing Activity
CHOOSE A STAR
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CLUSTER FOUR
Thinking Skill
T HINKING
ON
Y OUR O WN
117
SYNTHESIZING
Hamish Mactavish Is Eating a Bus
G OR D O N K O R M A N
short story
118
article
130
eulogy
132
poem
134
fairy tale
136
Who’s the Greatest of All?
D AN I E L O K R E N T
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
D AV I D D I N K I N S
Visible Ink
N IKK I G I O VA N N I
The Woodcutter’s Story
N AN C Y S C H I M M E L
Responding to Cluster Four
142
Close Reading
143
Using Textual Evidence
150
Comparing Texts
152
Author Biographies
155
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