Huck Finn and Hero Journey
Hello! I recently began to teach Huck Finn to my 10th graders and I'm planning on using the Hero Journey for the first time. I am introducing it using Star Wars, but since I've never taught this before, does anyone have any ideas helping students understand the journey? Has anyone does this with HF before? Is it all pretty straight forward?
Thank you!
Thank you!
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Permalink Reply by Jasmine Tyler on -
How detailed do you want it? I attended a conference a couple years ago where a teacher had mapped out the hero's journey for her students & I could send you the handout... I also have the notes I use to teach about the journey (I forget where I got them, although it might say on my notes). Let me know if you would like these materials.
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Permalink Reply by Lisa Laskey on -
I also teach Huck. I'd love to see your hero's journey handout.
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Permalink Reply by Emily Coates on -
I'd love the materials. Thank you, Emily
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Permalink Reply by Jasmine Tyler on
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Attached are the Hero Journey notes - I tend to summarize the information for my students...
I have also attached the chart I received from the conference (Sarah Reinhardt did the original). The chart attached is for the movie Shrek, because I teach the hero journey in conjunction with literary archetypes & satire.... :) It's a nice treat after doing Don Quixote and Candide.
The teacher who presented the chart had a whole segment of her curriculum based on Star Wars - she used the recent triad (Phantom Menace, etc.) rather than the first group (Empire Strikes Back, etc.). The recent one uses a tragic hero, so some of the steps end up changing because the hero may not achieve them all - The older version would have a more traditional hero journey because Luke is successful in the end and achieves the freedom to live. - Attachments:
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Hero’s Journey.doc, 66 KB -
Shrek and hero's journey.doc, 13 KB
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Permalink Reply by Paul W. Hankins on -
Emily:
If you go to rawinck.ning.com, (our student website at Silver Creek High School) and click on Groups, then Student Resources, my students have posted a bunch of material on The Hero's Journey. Do you want to do this with a text like Huck Finn right out of the shoot. . .how about a short story film combination. I use "A Brief Moment in the Life of Angus Bethune" from Chris Crutcher's Athletic Shorts and pair this with the film, Angus. It is a light-hearted look at how the hero begins in innocence, struggles, a great symbolic death and visitation from the goddess in the film version. The film has some language, but it is PG-13. . .I think seeing Angus crowned as Winter Ball King is a good example of the common man as hero. . .
I also do The Hero's Journey with John Proctor from The Crucible.
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