Friday, March 1, 2019

Announcements and Reminders: No school for students on Monday, March 4!                   February 28: Last day to hand in late work for Term 3 March 8:  Last day of Term 3   -- Hand in your unused hall passes.

Targets for Today:  I can better understand the Hero's Journey and prepare to teach my classmates more about an example of the Hero's Journey.

Today’s  Agenda: Mrs. Ferrin will be visiting to teach us how to improve presentations. She showed us a bit about using Adobe Spark.    Watch the last 5 minutes of Jason and the Argonauts. About Some Real-Life Heroes More about The Hero's Journey and your assignment. Demonstration of how to sign up when you decide on your movie. You can begin signing up for your movie of choice on CANVAS under Movies for Hero's Journey Presentations Hercules and the Hero's Journey -- These are your tasks as we watch the movie: On your notes about the heroes journey,  record examples from Hercules.  In your notebook, create a big Venn Diagram, and use it to record differences and similarities between the Greek Myth of Heracles and the Disney version of Hercules.  To 17:46  Allow time to sign up if ready. Chromebooks  March 14 and 18. Hercules  1:35

If You Were Absent:  Add the movies you'd be interested in doing to the discussion  on Canvas titled  Movies for Hero's Journey Presentations -- Sign Up There is more explanation of the project on Movie Monomyth.docx    You can see which movies are still available -- or suggest your own  -- on the document   Sign up for Movies -- Hero's Journey.docx

Vocabulary:

Coming up:
March 6 -- Archetypal Characters in The Hero's Journey
March 8 -- Hercules and The Hero's Journey

Help and Enrichment  Hero's Journey in Hercules: Steps 1-4  call, refusal, supernatural aid   --through slide 7 Steps 5-5.5 - 6   crossing the threshold, guardian,  belly of the whale  (emotional challenge)      -- through slide  10 Steps  7 -9  Inmost cave, crisis, apotheosis   -- through slide 13 Steps 9 -11-11    atonement with the father and reward   -- through slide 16 Steps 12 - Return to the real world  -- slide 17