1. Come in, take a seat and put your cell phone away!
Bell Work:
In your grammar packet:
Read the notes on Linking Verbs
Define predicate nominative
Complete Exercise 7
Write a sentence that follows this pattern:
I am the _____________.
Label the predicate nominative in the sentence.

2. Agenda Hero’s Journey Notes – Overview Explain the Hero’s Journey
The Hero’s Journey and You

3. Objectives
Explain the concept of The Hero’s Journey using specific vocabulary and words that show the relationship between the trials.
Expand on your explanation using examples from familiar stories.
Identify similarities between The Hero’s Journey and your own life.

4. Quick Write
What do you have in common with Katniss Everdeen, Frodo Baggins, Harry Potter, Hermione Granger or another of your favorite characters from fiction? Quick Write for 5 minutes

5. The Hero’s Journey

6. The Hero’s Journey by Matthew Winkler

7. The Hero’s Journey: An Overview
The Ordinary World
Status Quo
Call to Action
Refusal of the Call
Meeting the Mentor
Crossing the Threshold

8. In the Special World
The Hero: Faces trials Meets friends AND enemies Has a crisis Fails before they succeed Gains a treasure Learns something about themselves

9. The Monomyth
Called the monomyth because forms of The Hero’s Journey occur across cultures and time.
From The Odyssey to Disney movies to The Avengers
As with every good story, the parts of the Hero’s Journey are connected by cause and effect.
When we talk about the Hero’s Journey, we use language that communicates this relationship.

10. In your own words… Explain the Hero’s Journey in your own words.
Use the specific vocabulary: Ordinary world, special world, status quo, call to action, refusal of the call, meeting the mentor, crossing the threshold.
Use words that communicate the connection between these stages.
Use examples to clarify the meaning.

11. Come in, take a seat and put your cell phone away!
Bell Work: Read the grammar notes on predicate adjectives (adjacent to exercise #9) Complete exercises #9

12. Agenda Explain the Hero’s Journey to a partner
Identify and write about similarities and differences between the Hero’s Journey and your life.
Notes on the Hero’s Journey

13. In pairs… Explain the Hero’s Journey to a partner
Partner #1: Explain the ordinary world and how the Hero’s Journey begins
Partner #2: Explain the special world and what experiences the hero has there.
Use specific vocabulary you learned yesterday as well as connecting words that show sequential AND cause and effect relationships.
Sequential: The order events occur in (“First,” “To begin,” “Then,” “Next,”)
Cause and effect: (“Therefore,”; “As a result,”; “Because of ____, ____ happens.”)

14. Objective Explain the concept of the Hero’s Journey
Connect the Hero’s Journey to your own life
Identify and describe the different stages of the Hero’s Journey

15. Think/Pair/Share & Written Response
What similarities and differences do you see between your own life and the Hero’s Journey?
Think/Pair/Share with a partner
Write your response in your notebook

16. The Hero’s Journey – A Comprehensive View
Take notes in your notebook
Any time you can relate to a stage in the Hero’s Journey, make a note of it.
You will use these notes for your next assignment – analyzing The Hero’s Journey in a movie.

17. Separation or Departure
The Call to Adventure
Our hero gets the notice that everything is about to change
Refusal of the Call
Often, the hero refuses the call.
Can be a result of fear, sense of duty, insecurity
Meeting the Mentor / Talisman
The hero’s guide becomes known.
The hero may or may not realize they are the guide.
This may come in the form of a magical or meaningful object (talisman).

18. Separation Crossing the Threshold
The hero leaves the ordinary world and crosses into the unknown.
This unknown world is dangerous, the rules are unfamiliar.

19. Initiation The Belly of the Whale
Final separation from the ordinary world.
Hero is faced by a world with different rules than the one they left.
Point of transition – often represented by a dark place.
The hero realizes how far he or she will go to complete the quest.

20. Initiation The Road of Trials Meeting the Goddess / Love
Series of trials, tests or tasks the hero must complete
They often fail at one or more of these trials
Often occur in threes
Meeting the Goddess / Love
Hero meets the one who inspires unconditional love
Not necessarily an actual goddess
Can occur within the hero when they stop seeing themselves in a non-dualistic way (recognizing their strengths and weaknesses as parts of a whole).

21. Initiation The Temptress / Temptation
While “temptress” is feminine, this stage can involve many different types of temptations.
Temptations threaten to lead the hero astray, abandoning his or her quest.
Atonement
Hero must face a father-figure
Father-figure must be persuaded, beaten or must give approval to the Hero
This is the center point of the journey.

22. Initiation Apotheosis The Ultimate Boon Refusal of the Return
Means to deify (become god-like)
Point of realization when greater understanding and perspective is achieved.
Period of rest before the hero receives…
The Ultimate Boon
Achievement of the goal of the quest (the treasure).
All steps of the journey prepare the hero for this step.
Refusal of the Return
Hero does not want to return to the ordinary world

23. Return The Magic Flight Rescue from Without
Sometimes the hero has to run to escape the special world.
Rescue from Without
The hero may need assistance to return from the special world.
They may be weak or injured, or they may not realize it’s time to return.

24. Return The Crossing of the Return Threshold Master of the Two Worlds
The trick here is to retain the wisdom the hero gained on the quest and to integrate it or share it with the ordinary world.
Extremely difficult
Master of the Two Worlds
Hero is comfortable in both ordinary and special worlds.
They have gained knowledge and skill that enables them to exist in both.
This fundamentally changes how they live in the ordinary world.

25. Return
Freedom to Live
The hero has conquered his or her fear and in doing so has earned the freedom to live.

26. Let’s see how this works…

27. Fill in your Hero’s Journey graphic organizer