CourageA Narrative that Creates the Definition

1.With a partner, find a story of courage.

2.Offer a title page with your person or persons’ name(s) and your group’s names.

What to place in the presentation:

3. On the second slide, in the left-hand column, place the story’s essential information.

4. In the right hand column, place an image for the story.

4. Pull five vocabulary words that are important to the story. You will need to discuss the words’ connotations and denotations

5. Offer your group’s definition of “courage.”The definition could be a phrase or a sentence.

6. Use easybib.com to create a works cited page. You will have to cite both the text and the visual rhetoric.

7. Be aware of your transitions, and the style for the presentation.

8. We are looking to have about five slides.

Stories can come from...current eventsliteraturehistory

Point Value: 40

Presentation Date: Starting Next Week

An Example

The Courage of

Tyler DoohanMr. Boesch and Mrs. Pruitt

English III

Tyler Doohan• Tyler, from upstate New York, was staying at a relative’s on

January 19 when he saw a fire in the small mobile home at

around 5:00 a.m.

• Tyler woke up six people, two of whom were children ages 4

and 6. He then went back into the blaze to help his grandfather,

a disabled man-neither one made it.

• For Tyler’s funeral, firefighters from multiple departments

stood in formal “Class A” uniforms with bagpipes playing

• Declared an honorary firefighter: Family was presented with a

special helmet-receiveing the same funeral ceremony given to

fallen firefighters.

“He showed valor and strength, and paid the ultimate sacrifice.”

~Fire Chief Chris Ebmeyer

5 Key Words within the CNN ArticleHomeBlazeGrandfatherSacrifice Funeral

Our Definition of Courage:An unselfish willingness to sacrifice oneself for the greater good of another or society.

Works CitedBoyette, Chris. "New York Boy Who Died Rescuing Relatives

Gets Firefighter Funeral."CNN. Cable News Network, 29 Jan.2014. Web. 25 Feb. 2014.

Solano, Francesca. Helmet. 2014. Photograph. New York City.