"Where I Find My Heroes"

Having served in the Vietnam War and directed the films "Platoon" and "Born on the Fourth of July," Oliver Stone realizes that heroism does not come from fighting others but on fighting to live and grow. He explains this in an article for McCall's Magazine.

Here are all the word lists to support the reading of Grade 8 Unit 1's texts from SpringBoard's Common Core ELA series: A Wrinkle in Time, The Drummer Boy of Shiloh, The Odyssey, A Man, Soldier home, Sonnet 116, Where I Find My Heroes, White House Funeral Sermon, O Captain! My Captain!, Frederick Douglass, The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, A Definition of a Gentleman