Professor Crawford used several text literacies in our short unit on Essential Questions: What makes a hero? She used music, music videos, song lyrics, articles, group and class discussions, and a movie trailer. In order to understand their relation to the unit, we had to understand what we were "reading". Each text required a different literacy to understand the meaning within each text.
A hero can be anyone from any background. Regardless of social status, past history, profession, personality, or anything else, any individual has the power to be a hero. Heroes can reveal a number of qualities, including but not limited to self-sacrifice, courage, strength, endurance, perseverance, morality, and responsibility.
My heroes are people who upset the social balance and encourage an upheaval of cultural norms. Most often these people are martyrs. Although they are murdered for their outrageous change, their influence only spreads. People like Paul introduced the idea of husbands submitting and loving their wives enough to lay down their own lives for their wives' during the cultural era where women were seen but not heard. He also named an unheard of, for that time, number of women who strengthened the new church's power. These people are bold, courageous, and sacrificial. They press on despite the hard times, and they rely not on their own strength, but God's.
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