1. Honors English 10 Mrs. Fernandez August 11, 2015 Please remove your ball cap and place your gum in the trash. WARM UP: COMPLETE THE COURAGE WEB.

2. Objectives – Aug 11, 2015  Students will explore and develop an understanding of the concept of courage.  Students will identify their own attitudes and beliefs about courage.  Students will develop “essential understandings” related to the concept of courage.

3. The definition of courage is an argument of judgment.  “Courage is doing what you’re afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you’re scared. - Eddie Rickenbacker (Fighter Pilot)  Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.– Mark Twain  The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear. - Aung San Suu Kie (Democratically elected leader of Burma  Which definition resonates with you? In other words, with which quote would you most strongly agree? Why? (Journal entry)

4. Arguments of Judgment  Develop and Support Criteria –  What is the criteria? Where does the criterial come from?

5. When Aristotle speaks, everybody listens….(allusion – ask your parents) - Greek philosopher (born 345 B.C.) - Student of Plato who was a student of SOCRATES! (Seriously some old dudes…) - How old i s this concept of courage? - Aristotle defined courage somewhat like this: Having no Having no fear even in Control over fear-- ------- -- COURAGE------------ in extreme danger

6. Superman -  ESSENTIAL QUESTION: What Is the nature of courage?  Is Superman courageous?  Why?  Is Superman not courageous?  Why not?