1. It might be easy to think of the Supreme Court of the United States as a distant and mechanical law-judging body, far removed from the people it serves. The career of a Supreme Court Justice is, in fact, serious business, as the Supreme Court heads the judicial branch of the U.S. federal government and is the highest judicial body in the United States. The evening news or daily paper might give us a glimpse of some stately figure dressed in a long black robe, pounding a gavel on a shiny wooden desk. We might see stern-faced Supreme Court Justices and think of them as the demigods of the U.S political system, but the truth is that the nine justices of the Supreme Court are also people, just like we are, who work to get their jobs and do the work that they know and love.
What does the author mean when he suggests that people might think of the Supreme Court as a “distant and mechanical law-judging body?”
Some people incorrectly assume that the Supreme Court is an impersonal collection of individuals.
The Supreme Court is located in a geographically remote location, far away from most American citizens
The Supreme Court relies too much on machines to make its most important decisions.
If we did think of the Supreme Court in this way, perhaps we would be more sympathetic with our judicial system.

2. What is narrative? Simply put, narrative is a story.
It can be any kind of story found in any medium:
a novel, play, short story, myth, poem, song, movie, an episode, oral story, a photograph, sculpture, painting, tapestry, digital image, or any other creative form.
A narrative can be told on a microchip if you so desired.

3. How do you understand a narrative?
There are many different ways and opinions. Mostly, we will take the approach of Freytag’s Pyramid* *with some alterations from Mr. Whitehead What are the parts of the narrative structure that can be found on Freytag’s?

4. Freytag’s Pyramid

5. Exposition: The exposition is like the set-up of the story
Exposition: The exposition is like the set-up of the story. The background information that is needed to understand the story is provided, such as the main character, the setting, and so forth.

6. Exposition- Smokey and Craig narrate the setting and characters in their neighborhood.

7. Inciting Incident: something totally unexpected occurs, birthing or inciting the story’s major conflict and driving the protagonist into an adventure that will only end when the conflict is resolved.

8. Inciting Incident- the tesseract turns on by itself and Loki is transported to Earth from Asgard.

9. Rising Action: a series of events and actions that move the story to a climax. During rising action, the conflict develops and progresses, frustrating the main character’s attempt to reach his/her goal. This is the “training wheels” stage for the hero.

10. Rising Action- Peter Parker, after being bitten by a genetically enhanced spider, creates a disguise and uses his new-found strengths to hunt down his uncle’s killer.

11. Rising Action- Meanwhile, Dr
Rising Action- Meanwhile, Dr. Curt Connors experiments with limb regeneration via lizard DNA, transforming himself into the Lizard.

12. Climax: the peak of excitement and major turning point
Climax: the peak of excitement and major turning point. After the climax everything changes. Things will have gone badly for the main character up to this point; now, things will begin to go well for him or her. This is when the protagonist must decide to be a true hero and face the conflict head-on.

13. Climax- David, though a boy, has a moment of realization that he can defeat the giant Goliath.

14. Climax- After Bane breaks his back and imprisons him in “the pit,” Bruce Wayne recovers and climbs out to return to Gotham.

15. Falling Action: the hero makes great strides toward resolving the problem but is still building to an inevitable face-off with the antagonist. A metaphorical death and resurrection may occur before the Final Event.

16. Falling Action- After hitting an iceberg, all of the passengers scramble to escape the sinking ship.

17. Falling Action- Meanwhile, Jack and Rose, while trying to survive, attempt to escape Rose’s jilted fiancée, while trying to survive the elements.

18. Final Event: the battle, the face-off, the show-down: the moment where the conflict is ended by the outcome of the protagonist and antagonist confronting one another for the final time.

19. Final Event- Jake, in his avatar, faces Colonel Quaritch in the AMP suit in a fight to the death.

20. Final Event- Freddy and Jason are both finally brought together in the real world to fight it out.

21. The Tesseract has to be turned off.
Remember to separate the antagonist and the conflict. In The Avengers Loki must be defeated, but what problem has to be solved as well?
The Tesseract has to be turned off.

22. Resolution/Denouement: the world mostly returns to normal and the hero continues his or her life with a new knowledge, skill, tool, or direction, usually.

23. Resolution/Denouement- Dorothy awakes to find that Oz was a dream filled with her friends and family, making her realize that everything she needed all along was there in Kansas.

24. The Hero’s Journey a.k.a. the Monomyth
“You enter the forest at the darkest point, where there is no path. Where there is a way or path, it is someone else's path. You are not on your own path. If you follow someone else's way, you are not going to realize your potential.” 
-Joseph Campbell

25. The Hero’s Journey a.k.a. the Monomyth
A narrative paradigm Created by Joseph Campbell
There are many interpretations of The Hero’s Journey, but here are the classic steps according to Campbell: Atonement with the Father
The Call to Adventure 10. Apotheosis (Death)
Refusal of the Call The Ultimate Boon (The Grail)
Supernatural Aid Refusal of the Return
The First Threshold The Magic Flight
Belly of The Whale Rescue from Without
The Road of Trials The Return Threshold
Meeting With the Goddess 16. Master of Two Worlds
Woman as Temptress 17. Freedom to Live

26. The Hero’s Journey

28. Now
Let’s split into 7 groups of 3-5 students. Each group will receive an assigned step on Freytag’s Pyramid.
Your group must identify what events from the novel fit in that step on the pyramid with justification. (Use your chosen passages and quotes along with other events that belong in that step.)
As a whole-group we will then collaborate to complete Freytag’s Pyramid for our assigned novel.

29. 4. Climax:
3. Rising Action:
5. Falling Action:
2. Inciting Incident:
6. Final Event:
7. Resolution:
1. Exposition:

30. 4. Climax:
3. Rising Action:
5. Falling Action:
2. Inciting Incident:
6. Final Event:
7. Resolution:
1. Exposition: