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What is a Hero, day two
2014-2015
Freshman Literature, Fall 2014
Date
Aug. 19, 2014
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Learning Target: Students will evaluate characters form a popular film in order to place it into a hero category.
Literary Term #4: Setting
*please refer to your literature book's glossary for this definition (page 1029)
Allusion #4: John the Baptist
John the Baptist, born to St. Anne late in her life, spoke of the coming of Christ in his sermons in the wilderness. He baptized Christ, beginning Christ's ministry. He was imprisoned by Herod Antipas for denouncing Herod's marriage to his brother's wife and was beheaded at the request of Salome, King Herod's stepdaughter.
After we finish taking notes on the various iterations of heroes, you will get back into your groups from Friday (Hero's Journey groups). Using your notes and the hero of the film you already worked with, make a list of qualities that the hero has that match those listed for the Classical, Medieval, Romantic, and Modern heroes. Be prepared to respond to the following questions/prompts:
- Which category does your hero fit the best? Why?
- What qualities seem to have changed very little or not at all throughout time? Why do you think that is? What does it say about humanity that certain qualities remain constant? (hint: think about Jung's "Collective Unconscious" theory.)
- Look at what your hero is NOT. Discuss in what ways the entire story would be different if your hero had some of the qualities that he or she lacks.
After we discuss /debate these questions as a full class, we will take just a few more notes about the classical vs. modern hero, and we will also look at how they are the same. Finally, you will be introduced, in a very basic way, to The Odyssey and its main character, Odysseus.