Week+Six

Tuesday 10.9 Today we finished up //The Shawshank Redemption// and looked at Andy's quest for redemption as an archetypal heroic journey. We examined a handout available here that outlines the various stages of mythological quest and found examples from the film. We also applied the structure to a couple of our favorite Disney films, //The Lion King// and //Beauty and the Beast.//

Wednesday 10.10

Today we spent time in the computer lab researching and working on our archetype pages. We also discussed a grading rubric that we will use for assessment. It is available [|here]

Thursday 10.11

Andrew kicked off the presentation slate with an interesting discussion on the antihero archetype. This relatively new character type left Andrew struggling to find mythological/legendary examples, but he was able to deliver the stories of Odysseus from Ancient Greek myth and Saint Paul from the Bible. Andrew followed this with a film clip from //Pulp Fiction// in which Samuel L. Jackson's Jules reveals a finely tuned moral code which has come into focus as a result of a recent epiphany. //I'm tryin' real hard to be the Shepard//.

Friday 10.12

Tyler followed Andrew's presentation with a discussion of the underdog. His mythological example was Achilles although he is leaning towards classifying this Greek warrior as a flawed hero because of his bum heel. Tyler also told the story of David and Goliath from the Bible. We then watched two great clips from //Rocky// and //Braveheart//. Excellent choices, both. **//They may take our lives but they will never take our Freeeeeeedom!

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