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O mundo necessita de heróis, por isso busca-os cada vez mais no cinema e na banda desenhada. 

Mas quem são eles? São pessoas que lutam por algo ou por alguém.

E qual é a imagem tradicional de um herói?

Do ponto de vista da ficção, um herói é alguém que se dedica a salvar pessoas. Existe quase sempre uma história a explicar o seu aparecimento, pode usar um fato especial e, normalmente, tem super poderes. 

A verdade é que os heróis não são apenas meras figuras fictícias e, ao longo do tempo, heróis reais contribuiram para melhorar a sociedade e o mundo. Contudo, serão eles assim tão diferentes dos heróis fictícios?

A resposta é sim, são, pricipalmente se se pensar em exemplos como Martin Luther King, o próprio Jesus Cristo e até quem sabe… Cristiano Ronaldo.

Estes heróis são diferentes daqueles que se veem nos filmes, porque são símbolo de algo, mudaram a perspetiva do mundo, sacrificaram-se pelo bem maior, foram líderes. 

Veja-se, por exemplo, Martin Luther King, que foi alguém que, durante muito tempo, através dos seus discursos, tentou que a sua etnia se integrasse e fosse aceite e morreu por uma causa. Este homem foi e é um símbolo e um líder, logo pode ser considerado um herói.

Da mesma forma, Jesus Cristo pode ser visto como um herói, pois foi o líder do Cristianismo, sacrificou-se para salvar pessoas, tornou-se assim num símbolo para a Humanidade.

Já Cristiano Ronaldo é um caso diferente. Será mais um símbolo, um exemplo de motivação e de ambição, mas igualmente um herói para os mais jovens que se inspiram nele e que desejam seguir os seus passos e triunfar.

Para concluir, um herói não precisa de ser o super-homem ou o homem-aranha, cheio de poderes.

O verdadeiro herói, aquele de quem o mundo de facto precisa, é aquele que se sacrifica todos os dias pelos outros e está mais próximo do que se julga. ⚫

Aluno Eduardo Naita, 10º E

It was really hard to teach my teens the topics demanded by the syllabus for this school year in this term. Actually, being a teen, in general, is highly tough because it is a time full of physical and psychological transformations that teens don’t know how to deal with. Besides, being one in a very competitive and technological environment is even harder and difficult to cope with.

There is no doubt that teens have to face a world full of negative emotions, social anxiety, fake friends, and social media that they don’t sometimes know how to get rid of. But I haveto admit that I was very keen when asking them to write some words on the topic -“Volunteering programme” and they did it quite well at the resource centre. Everything went very satisfactory on the first day that they had to explore the topic in a real or imaginative way. Nevertheless, it was ambiguous to send them back to me to be published in a school newspaper either because of their shyness or fear of being exposed to the others.

So I don’t know how to help them overcome this difficulty of assuming that some issues have to be discussed widely and freely in class. 

Debating with them is even worse due to the fact that they don’t have arguments on how to express their opinions and feelings and that's why they end up saying ”I like it and I think it and that's it”. Even those we don’t have any kind of linguistic barriers are a “desert of ideas” when discussing in class because there is a “bullying atmosphere” created by them and it is not their fault but our society that is not preparing them properly.

So I decided to create a kind of compromise to watch a film and listen to some music which will help them to discuss some issues in class.

All in all, I am glad with them because they are trying to change their attitude towards their lifestyle and for me three essays are enough to reflect the inner vivid change attitude regarding education.

Here we go with three short essays on the topic “Volunteering in the 21st century”.⚫ 

Professora Célia Almeida

I started volunteering about 1 year ago. Before volunteering, I used to donate old clothes to the homeless shelter and I did some activities like that in scouts when I was ten, too. One day I saw an advertisement on television about helping the homeless and volunteering in homeless shelters and since I was old enough to volunteer for this project I joined it. At first I wasn’t very happy there, I was tired and a little bored but, as time passed by, I started conversations with some of the people at the shelter and made a lot of friendships there. Everyone at the shelter knows me now and I know them. Every day I look forward to waiting for my shift so I can chat with my friends there and, of course, help all the homeless people by feeding them, giving them clothes and trying to make them happy by chatting and playing card games with them when I am done with my shift. Volunteering has definitely made me a happier and more responsible person and not just that; it has also increased my social skills which makes me feel it is very rewarding knowing I’m helping other people. Helping others also makes me feel safe because I know if I ever need urgent help, there’ll always be someone glad to help with my problem even if they’ve never met me before.

I think that’s the beauty of this world, caring for others in need. ⚫

Aluna Carolina Vasconcelos, 9º A

This year I started the storytelling time through a children’s book entitled “Dear Spookysaur”.

It was written by Chae Strathie who is an important children’s writer and a journalist.

He lived in a little village surrounded by a forest in Scotland.

The illustrator of this book is Nicola O´Byrne.

She was born in Swaziland but now she lives in Los Angeles.

When she was 5 years old, she wrote her first picture book and the illustration of this one is something so amazing that appeals to the reader to be a faster one.

Max is one of the main characters of the book who wants to give everyone a big fright on Halloween day. He wishes to be as fearsome as a dinosaur. One day Dora (Max’s friend) invites him to a SPOOKTASTIC Halloween party in the grand hall of the museum.

Max can’t wait to tell his friend T.Rex that he’ll be coming to see him soon and so he decides to write letters to his “scary” dinosaur to ask for advice and tips because he is sure that T.Rex is the best one to give him some tips to scary his friends at the museum and …

Throughout the book you’ll find out letters full of terrifying and funny advice, jokes and…

Read and wait to see if T.Rex is as spooky as you can imagine now!

Professora Célia Almeida