If your students have limited access to the Internet, print out a selection of images from these sources and provide each research team with a set. Students should also be encouraged to extend their research to include books about Washington available at the library. Depending on your curriculum, you might update this lesson by having students investigate how heroes are created in our own time, focusing on superstars in sports and entertainment. Have students ask their parents about legendary figures whom they admired when they were growing up. Gabriel Garcia Marquez's The Autumn of the Patriarch.
Students apply a wide range of strategies to comprehend, interpret, evaluate, and appreciate texts.
Students employ a wide range of strategies as they write and use different writing process elements appropriately to communicate with different audiencees for a variety of purposes. Students conduct research on issues and interests by generating ideas and questions, and by posing problems. Visual Arts 2.