Pre-lesson check-in: working with your small group, draft a shared understanding of the term martyr.

Next, view/read the materials above; then explore either Foxe’s Book of Martyrs or Sor Juana Inez de la Cruz’s Loa to Divine Narcissus as a comparison text. What similarities do you see? What differences?

Finally, return to your group’s initial definition of the term martyr and revise it in light of your new knowledge, both from the texts and from your shared discussion. Reflecting on this activity, what have you learned about human history and the interactions between cultures across time?