Phase: | After/Explain/Elaborate |
Activity: | The student's goal is to demonstrate his/her understanding of and ability to apply the characteristics most often associated with a hero's journey. The students will work independently to complete the interactive Google slides, My Hero's Journey Book Proposal. The students will have access to this Read-Write-Tool to help them review the characteristics through examples while they work. The students will answer questions about a made-up Hero's Journey and illustrate each characteristic related to their Hero's Journey using My Hero's Journey Book Proposal. The students will use the My Hero's Journey Rubric to self-assess as their work as they go. |
Assessment Strategies: | The teacher will use the My Hero's Journey Rubric provided in this activity to assess each student's individual level of understanding. |
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Notes or Recommendations (optional): | Once the teacher makes his/her own copy of the Google slide and rubric, he/she can alter it to fit his/her students. Students should already be familiar with the idea that writers draw on themes, patterns of events, and character types from myths, traditional stories, religious works, etc. and the traditional Hero's Journey myth before they begin this assignment. This activity could be combined with the following learning activities on ALEX:
The teacher will find the following instructions embedded in the My Hero's Journey Book Proposal: "You must stay true to the characteristics discussed in this unit. You do, however, have some creative freedom. You may choose not to include some of the characteristics (no more than 3 without permission), but you must include a clear explanation for why the omitted characteristic is not appropriate for your story. Your explanation(s) should be included in the slide of the characteristic(s) you chose to omit." If the teacher does not plan on using the Learning Activities mentioned above to create a unit project, the following wording, "You must stay true to the characteristics discussed in this unit," will need to be changed when he/she alters My Hero's Journey Book Proposal. |
Keywords and Search Tags: | heros journey, literary motifs, monomyth, myth, traditional patterns and characteristics |