3a: Relational Dimension

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Complete Activities 6.5 and 6.6

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Complete Activities 6.7 & 6.8

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Complete Activities 6.9 & 6.10

Key questions to be answered in your OneNote and in complete sentences

 How and why does a community identify a hero or role model?

 In what way/s do heroes and/or role models have a responsibility to their communities?

 What happens when a hero fails?

 How do heroes and role models influence the ways in which people behave towards each

other?

 Why are some hero stories known, and others not known?

Class Discussion

 What are some of the myths, urban myths, legends and epics about community heroes and role models that come easily to mind in our context both locally, nationally and globally?

 What is the relationship between a hero or role model and the community?

 How do communities capture, recall and preserve life experiences of heroes and role models?

Let's Look at the Media

View and Respond

 What is the link between a culture’s heroes and role models and that culture’s identity?

 How does the media manipulate our understanding of heroes and role models?

 Is there a gender bias in hero and role model stories and their perpetuation in the media?

View and Respond

 What makes this story quintessentially Australian in character?

 What characteristics does this man have that might be considered heroic?

 Consider the way that this story is being reported. How is the media shaping your view of the story?

View and Respond

Philip Zimbardo is one of the most recognised living psychologists. His "Stanford Prison Experiment"; has marked the history of psychology, demonstrating how the social context can influence the choices of individuals and groups in terms of good and bad. After years of this experiment and in an increasingly complex sociopolitical situation, Zimbardo's prospect overturned. With the Heroic Imagination Project, the goal is to create a new generation of every day superheroes ,capable of carrying out small social-centric gestures that inspire others to do good.

 View and respond to this TED Talk in any way you wish. You might summarise, reflect in a journal, make a poster, infographic, poem, drawing, 1 minute video reflection or call to action.

 Design a T Shirt to advocate for heroism in the everyday responses to our world. Share them in our collaboration space in OneNote

Class Discussion

 How do representations of heroes and role models across the media enhance, distort or detract from my understanding of human capacity and capability?

Meet some of the Heroes of the Shoah

Click on this button to read about Righteous Women Among Nations

Choose one of the stories in the videos and articles above and create a sketch note that explores their actions, the implications of their actions for the participants and then consider what inspiration you might take from their choices. Put your responses into Page 3: Relational Dimension in OneNote.

Click on the button below and read the article. Listen to the recording of Simon Caldwell talking about Catholic unsung heroes of the Holocaust

Unsung Catholic Heroes of The Holocaust

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