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What is a Hero's Journey?!

Standards

ELACC9-10RI3 - Georgia

Analyze how the author unfolds an analysis or series of ideas or events, including the order in which the points are made, how they are introduced and developed, and the connections that are drawn between them.

Learning Target

Students will learn what a Hero's Journey is, and why it is so important in the stories we read and movies we watch.

Warm-up

Vocabulary

Activator

Journal 20: When you hear or read the word, epic, what comes to mind? Why? Do you have any examples?

After journal we will watch a video that pre-views the Hero's Journey

Resources:

•    : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGV1BvnyvGo

Work Session

Going over the Hero's Journey. What that looks like, consists of, and why it is important. We will go over a powerpoint of different examples to help the students understand better. We will also watch a short video that goest over the Hero's Journey if the students still have questions.

http://ed.ted.com/lessons/what-makes-a-hero-matthew-winkler

After, the students will create their own Hero's Journey diagram from something they have either watched, or read about. They will also write a sentence about why it's considered an Hero's Journey.

Resources:

•    Monday, August 18th, 2014.pptx: https://www.filepicker.io/api/file/qyqrI16bRxuEQAWqqv78

•    The Hero’s Journey.docx: https://www.filepicker.io/api/file/t0e0culnRiWaBckz4uag

Closing Session

Students will share out some of their examples, they will also turn this in.
BRING TEXT BOOKS TOMORROW!!!

Assessment Strategy  

Formal: Graded Hero's Journey example
Informal: Answering questions and having student answer my questions

Differentiation

This is focused around the students interest. Students can pick what journey they want to focus on and what appeals to them.
We also look at videos the help the visual learners, pass out a worksheet that helps our tactile learners, and go over all the answers as a class.