• UNITS for this Class
• Unit One: Heroic Narrative
• Unit Two: Heroic Comparison
• Unit Three: Heroic Research
• Unit Four: Heroic Wrap Up

Grading:

Important Messages / Updates:

Welcome to Eng 272Q, The Hero. I look forward to working with you and with exploring together what it means to be a hero this semester.

Hero Blog

Responses:

#1. Response#1: What's a Hero?

#2. Response#2: Why Be a Hero?

#3. Response#3: The Grey Areas of Heroism.

#4. Response#4: The Fate of Heroism.

Texts:

C. Vogler, The Writer's Journey (Vo)

T. Morris, M. Morris, eds. Superheroes and Philosophy: Truth, Justice, and the Socratic Way (Popular Culture and Philosophy)

A. Moore, The Watchmen

Service-Learning Option:

If you choose to become a hero this semester and do some community-based service, you will receive credit on both ONE in-class assignment and ONE major assignment. Ask me for the details about this opportunity or visit the office listed below:

Service-Learning Emphasis Office
Kapiolani Community College
Naio Building, Room 214
4303 Diamond Head Road
Honolulu, HI 96816-4421
Phone: 808.734.9353
Fax: 808.734.9287
Email: kccserve@hawaii.edu
Hours of Operation
Monday - Friday, 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. .

(Miep Gies is the woman who helped Ann Frank and her family hide from the Nazis. The following is a conversation she had with a student, Marcus.)

Marcus: I've never had a hero before. But you are my hero.

Miep Gies: Oh, no. No, no, no, young man, no. I am not a hero. No. I did what I had to do, because it was the right thing to do. That is all.

Miep Gies: You are the heroes. You are heroes every day.

Miep Gies: . . . . even an ordinary secretary or a housewife or a teenager can, within their own small ways, turn on a small light in a dark room.