03.26 - Hero's Cycle

For today's class we were becoming familiar with Joseph Campbell's plot diagram of the hero's journey (which is also often referred to as the "monomyth" or "the hero with 1,000 faces"). We read an introduction to the hero's journey and talked about what this diagram looks like when applied to familiar stories (in class we used Disney movies like "The Lion King" and stories like "Harry Potter" and "Lord of the Rings").

Next, I introduced everyone to a poem style called found poetry where a poem is created by selecting and arranging words and phrases from a source text to make a poem. We looked at several examples of found poems created using the sheet that explained found poems (see below).

We will look at applying the hero's journey model to a classic myth in our next class.

Handouts:
Introduction to the Hero's Journey
Found Poem: How To

Found poem examples (made from the "Found Poem: How To" sheet):

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(This was a tongue-in-cheek found poem) - Click Image to Enlarge

Homework:

Write a found poem using the hero's journey introduction text from today in class.
You can challenge yourself in doing this at different levels:

Master Hero: Create a found poem exploring the question "Who is the hero with 1,000 faces?"
Hero: Create a found poem exploring the idea "What is the hero's journey"
Everyman Hero: Create a free-form found poem from the text.

Complete missing work and revise any assignment that scored below a 92.

 

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