Major Composition
Creative Non-Fiction
Hero
• a man admired for his achievements
and noble qualities
• one who shows great courage
• DOES NOT HAVE TO BE DEAD.
• Does he/she need special powers?
• Does he/she need to be dead?
• Or is he just an average person
walking down the street?
Modern Day Hero
• A modern day hero is someone who faces
adversity and danger from a position of
weakness and displays self sacrifice for
the greater good
• By definition, a modern hero is someone
who has done something heroic in recent
times.
Modern Day Hero
• A "good" person where integrity, honor,
honesty, intelligence, wisdom, action,
morality and love work in harmony to
balance the person on their path of higher
learning.
Modern
Day
Heroes
A Hero’s Journey
• Home/Ordinary World
• Leaving Home
• Event/Problem
• Mentor
• Special World
• Allies and Enemies
• Tests/Supreme Ordeal
• The Road Back/ Elixir
Event or Problem
• Something shakes up the situation, either
from external pressures or from something
rising up from deep within, so the hero
must face the beginnings of change.
Mentor
• The hero comes across a seasoned
traveler of the worlds who gives him or her
training, equipment, or advice that will help
on the journey. Or the hero reaches within
to a source of courage and wisdom.
Special World
• The hero commits to leaving the Ordinary
World and entering a new region or
condition with unfamiliar rules and values.
Allies and Enemies
• The hero is tested and sorts out
allegiances in the Special World.
Tests or Supreme Ordeal
• The hero enters a central space in the
Special World and confronts death or
faces his or her greatest fear. Out of the
moment of death comes a new life.
The Road Back or Elixir
• The hero returns home or continues the
journey, bearing some element of the
treasure that has the power to transform
the world as the hero has been
transformed.
Creative Non-Fiction
• Real story
• Narrative and Descriptive
• Points for reflection:
– WHAT MAKES THE PERSON A HERO?
– WHAT IS THE POINT OF THE STORY?
Creative Non-Fiction
• Concrete and evocative details
• Show rather than tell
• A convincing ending
Major Composition
All 2nd Year AHS students will, for their 2nd GP Major
Composition, submit an entry for Bookmark, Inc.’s
Modern Heroes for the Filipino Youth contest.
Students should be able to present their chosen
characters as a role model for young people to
emulate.
Students should clearly show why their chosen
character can be considered a hero.
Major Composition
Exceptional entries will be published.
Winning entries shall receive cash prizes:
1. 1st Prize P10,000
2. 2nd Prize P5,000
3. 3rd Prize P2,500
Major Composition
Past winner: Joaquin De Guzman of 2A, for his story
on the life of Bro. Richie Fernandez, S.J., I Know
Where My Heart Is
The characters or personalities for
which stories are to be written are as
follows:
• Felipe Padilla de Leon (musician)
• Lucio D. San Pedro (composer)
• Fernando C. Amorsolo (painter)
• Cesar Legaspi (painter)
• Vicente S. Manansala (painter)
• Lamberto V. Avellana (film and stage director)
• Raymundo S. Punongbayan (geologist)
• Botong Francisco
• James O’Brien, SJ
• Bienvenido Lumbrera
Major Composition
Spread 1
How and where does your
story begin?
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Spread 2
Describe your hero.
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Spread 3
What event occurs or
problem arises which moves
your hero to challenge
himself?
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Spread 4
How does your hero
respond to the challenge?
What does he do?
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Spread 5
Mention and describe the
people who helped your
hero along the way.
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Spread 6
What difficulties did your
hero encounter in his
journey to solve the
problem?
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Spread 7
How does your hero finally
solve or address the
problem?
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Spread 8
What legacy does your hero
leave behind? In what way
can he be remembered as a
hero?
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Major Composition
Notes:
Each paragraph need only be 3-5
sentences long.
Feel free to change the order of some
spreads.
CRITERIA/POINTS 10 8 3 2
UCC UCC Elements of Narration unified incident,
POV maintained,
discourses properly
used Elements of Description dominant impression,
appropriate concrete &
specific words
appropriate sensory details
appropriate figures of speech
appropriate adjective clauses Grammar and Mechanics
no error
Prompt Submission on
time