Wednesday, March 6, 2019

Announcements and Reminders for Wednesday, March 6, 2019:                           February 28: Last day to hand in late work for Term 3        -- Please see me about handing in any late work.  I will not be at the school on March 8.   If you need a test retake, do it by 4:00 on Thursday, March 7.   Sign up for your movie project by the end of school on Friday.  March 8:  Last day of Term 3   -- Hand in your unused hall passes.  Get out your composition books for today. We will have the Chromebooks to work on your projects on March 14 and March 18. Time flies.  Make sure you are ready for the end of the term.  Chronos was a primordial god  (not the titan Cronos)  who was the personification of time.

Targets for Today: I can understand more about the Hero's Journey and archetypal characters.

Today’s  Agenda for Wednesday, March 6, 2019: 1. Characters in The Hero's Journey  In literature, an archetype is a typical character, an action, or a situation that seems to represent universal patterns of human nature. March 6 -- Archetypal Characters in The Hero's Journey Archetypes Hero – audience identification -- someone we can relate to on some level He or she is a character who predominantly  exhibits goodness, and struggles against evil in order to restore harmony and justice to society. If Malfoy were our main character, would we sympathize with him?  growth, change – action -- character flaw – biggest weakness (could be fear) sacrifice --  (example, Harry willing to die for the greater good) Mentor – often a wise old man or woman (Dumbledore and Hagrid) --Teaching gift-giving (light-sabre) -- motivating the hero – quelling fear, kick in the pants, etc. can turn out to be a villain -- a shape-shifter Threshold Guardian obstacles testing the Hero (Dursley letters, purpose – to test the hero) Herald issues the challenge announce a coming change, that all is not well provides motivation to Hero person or object Shape-shifter -- not what he or she appears to be (Snape?) “Real” self-revealed can force change good or evil, can be any character Shadow the villain tests the hero’s true abilities forces Hero to rise to the challenge often appear beautiful, elegant, or good (Shapeshifter) Trickster balances out the drama with a little laughter brings things into perspective Other Characters:   The Mother Figure -- can be nurturing or injuring  The Innocent Youth (may be the hero at the beginning)  The Doppleganger is a duplicate or shadow of a character,  which represents the evil side of his personality. The Scapegoat takes the blame for everything bad that happens.  The Sidekick may be a trickster or a shape-shifter or a damsel or . . .  The Love Interest -- Usually also one of the other character types.  Annette Lyon https://literarydevices.net/archetype/ 2. We watched part of Hercules --  to 46:28 and through slide 10 on the Hero's Journey 3. Students received a notes page for their own movie monomyth/hero's journey. The story in myth: https://www.ancient.eu/article/733/the-life-of-hercules-in-myth--legend/

If You Were Absent:

Vocabulary: boon -- a thing that is helpful or beneficial.

Help and Enrichment  Some lit-theories classify archetypes by the role/purpose the character inhabits for the story. These classes are:  Protagonist,  Antagonist,  Reason (Mr. Spock),  Emotion (McCoy),  Sidekick (may be a kid, comic relief, the damsel in distress, bumbling, competent, etc,  Skeptic,  Guardian,  (also called mentor -- Mentor was Telemachus' elderly advisor in The Odyssey,) and Contagonist (the character who knows the hero's dark side better than the hero himself — and is determined to make sure the hero sees it, as well.) See also https://foxhugh.com/literary-elements/monomyth/