Curriculum focus: identifies, interprets, and analyzes the use of symbols (1.3.K4i), compares and contrasts character traits (1.4.K7a), compares and contrasts themes across multiple stories ( 1.4.K7b), identifies and describes the protagonist (2.1.K1a), identifies and describes the antagonist (2.1.K1b), analyzes the contextual aspects of setting (historical, social, and cultural) and their impact and influence on characters and events in the story (11.2.1.K2), recognizes ways that literature from different cultures presents similar themes differently across genres (11.2.2.K1), and compares and contrasts works of literature that deal with similar topics and problems (2.2.K2).
Our final week of the semester will be more of a review than anything else. Students have already taken their 100-point final test last week. This week, we'll take a look at the structure of mythologist Joseph Campbell's Heroic Quest based on his book
The Hero With a Thousand Faces. We'll then apply Campbell's structure and what we've learned throughout the semester to a film analysis that borrows more from Campbell and mythology in general than any other film in history.
- Mon: The Heroic Quest - notes in class
- Tues: Begin film analysis
- Wed: Continue film analysis
- Thurs: Discussion over film, the Heroic Quest, and mythology. Film analysis due by the end of the hour.
- Fri: 1st hour does not meet; 2nd, 4th, and 6th hour finals only
As this is only a semester-long class, I'm sad to have to say farewell to our students. Thanks for an absolutely wonderful semester. It has been a blast to start my day with my Mythology class.
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