Essential Question: What is your Hero's Journey and how does it tie into the literary texts we studied this quarter?

Agenda:
Finish the rough draft of your Hero's Journey using your outline from last period and this checklist. Aim for 800-1,000 words.

Make sure you included the following:

• Write your story in as much sensory detail as possible; use I-statements.
• Detail and explain each stage of the Hero's Journey and show how they apply to your story.
• Identify one polarity and explain how you dealt with it or how it shaped you.
• Wrap up with any goals this journey has given you and how you are planning to pursue them. 

We will split this period into 15-minute writing sprints in which you'll write as much of your rough draft as possible.
After your 15-minute timer is up, spend 5 minutes reading a partner's work and add a comment to their work with two pieces of feedback:

• something you like about their writing
• something you feel they could improve

To submit, click on "Share", click on "Get Shareable Link" and make sure to set it to "Anyone with the link can edit", then copy/paste the link to your doc into the Canvas assignment so I can give you feedback.

Assignment:
Link to completed rough draft (make sure it is set to "anyone with the link can edit"

Essential Question: What is your Hero's Journey and how does it tie into the literary texts we studied this quarter?

Agenda:
Write as much as possible of the rough draft of your Hero's Journey using your outline from last period and this checklist. Aim for 800-1,000 words.

Make sure you included the following:

• Write your story in as much sensory detail as possible; use I-statements.
• Detail and explain each stage of the Hero's Journey and show how they apply to your story.
• Identify one polarity and explain how you dealt with it or how it shaped you.
• Wrap up with any goals this journey has given you and how you are planning to pursue them. 

EVERY 15 MINUTES you'll be asked to stop writing and share your work with someone with the same color shirt/shoes as you. They will read what you have written and rate it from 1 to 4 based on how you are following directions.

To submit, click on "Share", click on "Get Shareable Link" and make sure to set it to "Anyone with the link can edit", then copy/paste the link to your doc into the Canvas assignment so I can give you feedback.

Assignment:
Link to completed rough draft (make sure it is set to "anyone with the link can edit"

Essential Question: What is your hero's journey and how does it tie into the literature we have studied this quarter?

Agenda: 

1. Read your Quarter 1 Book for 10 minutes.

2. Reading Journal: Write about anything that stood out to you in your reading. Cite textual evidence and explain how this passage shaped your thinking. Write for 5 minutes. 

3. Finish your Hero's Journey Outline

4. Draft your Hero's Journey using your outline from last period and this checklist.
Your personal statement needs to be between 800-1000 words.

Today, focus on your INTRODUCTION: What was your life before everything changed? How do your childhood myths or social expectations you have been told tie into this? What happened to change it and how did you react to it? Be as specific and detailed in your writing as you can. The point of this essay is to really SHOW what happened and use specific details to illustrate your story and make the reader feel like they are right there with you.

Assignments:

• TODAY: Submit the beginning of your Rough Draft on Canvas under the "Hero's Journey Introduction" assignment
• TUESDAY, OCTOBER 29: FINISH ROUGH DRAFT

Essential Question: What is the Hero's Journey and how does it apply to your own life?

Agenda: 

1. Read your Quarter 1 Book for 10 minutes. 

2. Quick write: Write for 5 minutes on the following:

• How are you the hero of your own story? 
• What's your story?
• What makes you heroic?

3. What is the "Hero's Journey"? 

4. Brainstorm: 
When have you done something great in your life?

• What was it?
• ​How did you get there to that point?
• What decisions/choices helped you get there?
• What people helped you get there?
• ​What held you back (internally)?
• What tried to stop you (externally)?
• How did it change your life ?

5. Complete the Hero's Journey Outline. You will need it to complete your final quarter project.

6. Beginning of Quarter 2 Writing Project:
You will write a 800-word personal statement in form of a hero’s journey. It will cover the following:

• Call to Adventure
• Initiation
• Transformation
• Return

Assignments:
Include the following in your GoogleDoc; title it "Hero's Journey Outline"

• Quickwrite
• Brainstorm
• Outline

Essential Question: How does a narrative change when it is told from the villain's point of view?

Agenda:

1. Read your Quarter 1 Book for 10 minutes.

2. Reading Journal: write for 5 minutes. List one of each of the following:

• a connection (to yourself, another text or the world)
• an important detail (cite evidence from the text)
• a question that came up in your reading

3. Think-Pair-Share: What do you remember from the passage of Grendel we read last time? What is your impression of Grendel as a character in comparison to Grendel in Beowulf?

4. With a partner work through the THINK section. Discuss your answers and come up with evidence before writing them down on Study Sync.

5. By yourself, complete the WRITE section. Write your answer in 5 sentences:

• Sentence 1: Introduction and your claim.
• Sentences 2-4: Evidence and why you think so.
• Sentence 5: Restate your claim and sum up your findings.

6. Submit the entire Grendel assignment on Study Sync.

7. Make-Up Work: On StudySync: Make sure the following assignments are complete and submitted:

• Literary History: The Epic and the Epic Hero​
  
• BEOWULF: First Read
• Grendel

Submit any other make-up work (Reading Journals, Resume, etc.) you are missing on Canvas.

Essential Question: 

How does a narrative change when it is told from the villain's point of view?

Agenda:

Take the HOPE Squad's Survey for HOPE WEEK here.

1. Read your Quarter 1 Book for 10 minutes.

2. Reading Journal: How would your book's story change if it was told from the villain or antagonist's point of view? What is your antagonist's goal, motivation, and conflict in the book you are reading?

3. Go to Stydy Sync and open the Grendel assignment
Before reading, discuss the following with your group: What do you know about Beowulf and what do you know about Grendel before going into the reading of this segment of John Gardner's Grendel

4. Complete the READ portion. As you read, make sure to annotate at least three of the following:

• connections (to yourself, another text, or the world)
• details (explain why you feel they are important)
• questions (make sure to ask questions that can help you better understand the text)

5. With a partner work through the THINK section. Discuss your answers and come up with evidence before writing them down on Study Sync.

6. By yourself, complete the WRITE section. Write your answer in 5 sentences:

• Sentence 1: Introduction and your claim.
• Sentences 2-4: Evidence and why you think so.
• Sentence 5: Restate your claim and sum up your findings.

7. Submit the entire Grendel assignment on Study Sync.

Assignments:

• Complete Grendel (read, think, and write) assignment on StudySync

Essential Question: What is epic poetry and what connections and important details can you find in your first read of Beowulf?Agenda:

1. Read your Quarter 1 Book for 10 minutes.

Reading Journal: What stood out to you in your reading? Write for 5 minutes and back up your writing with a quote from the book and why this stood out to you. 

2. What do you know about Beowulf?

3. Go back to StudySync and start the first read (go to the reading part) of the Beowulf: First Read assignment. As you read, check the "annotation" box and make at least three of the following per section:
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• connections to yourself, another text (or media), or the world
• important details and explain why they are important
• questions that could help you understand the text more or discuss it on a deeper level
• any vocab word you don't understand (include the definition you find)

4. Every 10 minutes, come together with your group and discuss what you annotated and help each other through any points of confusion.

5. Complete the Think part of the section.

6. Answer the writing prompt under "Write" as your exit ticket, then hit submit.

Assignments:

• Submit the Beowulf: First Read  assignment on Study Sync