Learning Targets
1. Analyze an excerpt from an EPIC poem for archetype and narrative techniques.
2. Draft your Road of Trials.

What does initiation mean? How have you heard it used before?

Why would Joseph Campbell use initiation to label the middle stage of the Hero’s Journey?

What mythical hero's do you know of?
what are words you would use to describe them?

Mythical hero's are archetypal characters

• What are common physical characteristics?
• What are common mental characteristics?

What type of conflicts do they normally face?

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As you watch the video

• Jot down background information about Odesseus

first 6 minutes of history bio

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Create a story board as we read and paraphrase events in the margins.

short powtoon video

Marking the text

• Circle words used to describe the hero directly.
• Underline actions, words, thoughts/feelings, and others' reactions to him that reveal elements of his character

Make a prediction

Mythical ideas to understand

cyclops

cyclops- Poseidon's Son

Zeus-God of the sky, king of the Gods

Agamemnon- Leading King of the the Greek forces.

Poseidon- God of the Sea