Learning Package

Lesson 8
Meeting and Being Heroes
YOUR GOALS
This lesson allows you to discover how heroes are made. Know who the
heroes are and what they do in the eyes of our ancestors --- and compare them to the
heroes of today. You must aim to:
1. Explain the effect of posture and bodily gestures in understanding a message
2. Observe rules on proper speaking when inquiring about, summarizing, or
reacting to what has been listened to/read or observed
3. Use appropriate idiomatic expressions in different communication situations
4. Use what you already know to understand what you read/hear
5. Use information presented in an epic to infer, to evaluate, and to express critical
ideas
6. Analyze the elements of epics, their intended purpose, and the setting during
which they were produced
7. Identify the parts of an informative text that make it effective in carrying its
message to the intended audience
8. Respond to ideas, issues, and concerns presented in an epic in a creative form
9. Retell a chosen myth or legend in a series of three five-to-seven-sentence
paragraphs
10. Make compound sentences
11. Use the special collections in the library such as archives, vertical files, and
electronic databases to locate information
YOUR INITIAL TASKS
Task 1. What Do You Think?
Choose a partner. Take turns sharing your answers to the following questions:
1. Who are heroes?
2. What are the qualities of heroes?
3. What are the powers of heroes?
Be ready to explain your answers to the class.
Task 2. Who Are They?
Watch and listen to the speaker carefully. On a half sheet of paper, complete the
table on the next page as you do this.
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