Using three very different persons as examples, students will see how a single person with personal virtue, good character, and ethical behavior can make a big difference in the world. Students will identify how heroes have acted for the common good. Students will design their own service project. While written for a Catholic Elementary School, the lessons in this unit may be easily adapted for public school use.

In Lesson Three: Rosa Parks, students will identify a need in the school and provide a volunteer service to fill the need.

• Copy-and-Paste Class/School Newsletter Information Insert:
  Parents, this is a chance for you to think about who your heroes are and share your ideas of what a hero is with your child. We are studying some very different individuals who-through their hard work, personal virtue, and good character-contributed greatly to the world. As a culmination of the unit, the students will think of a need in the school or community and make a plan to provide a service to meet that need. Even our children can be heroes as they act in small ways to share their time, talent, or treasures for the common good.
• Interactive Parent/Student Homework:
  In Lesson Two: Mother Teresa, students are expected to talk to their parents about what it means to them to be a hero. Parents may share their own personal heroes at this time.