1. 6th Grade ELA Unit 3 Lesson 2
Wednesday, November 1, 2017

2. Do Now
Use the first 5 minutes of class today to work on your Hero’s Profile and complete any components you may not have finished.
You may want to use individual features from people you know in real life. Think of both physical features and character details such as hobbies, likes, and dislikes.

3. Daily Report Opening Do Now Learning Target Work Time
Continuing to Make Notes on My Hero’s Journey
Formalizing a Plan for My Hero’s Journey
Closing and Assessment
Mix and Mingle: My Hero’s Journey
Homework
Complete your Hero’s Journey Narrative: Plan graphic organizer – do not complete the Writer’s Craft column 3

4. Reminder
Read Theory
Remember to complete 2 quizzes at 85% or better between Mon-Fri to earn 100%. Earn 85% Sat-Sun.
Don’t cheat yourselves. You need to try your best on each quiz. Do not just try your luck at selecting answers.
I will not continue to take low level quizzes.

5. Learning Target
I can use the notes on my Narrative Story Line—Hero’s Journey graphic organizer to begin to plan my own hero’s journey narrative.
“How does this learning target link to what you did in the previous lessons?”
RL6.3, W.6.3

6. Moving On…
S L A N T

7. Continuing to Make Notes on My Hero’s Journey
Now that you have analyzed a model narrative, you will spend time updating your notes and ideas on your organizer for your hero’s journey stories based on any new thinking and learning. Focus particularly on a Theme for your organizer. Look at your text, “Key Elements of Mythology” on page 65. Use the “Key Elements of Mythology” to determine which elements of myth and which significant theme you are going to communicate in your hero’s journey narratives. This is time for you to continue thinking about ideas and taking notes for your hero’s journey story. Do not begin writing, and this is not yet a formal plan for your hero’s journey narrative.

8. Narrative Story Line: Hero’s Journey
Select volunteers to share their ideas with the class. Discuss and record student ideas on the displayed organizer
Characters in an ordinary world

9. Continuing to Make Notes on My Hero’s Journey
Answer these questions as you make notes for your Hero’s Journey:
“Who is your character?”
“What is the call to adventure for your hero? How does your hero find out that he or she needs to go on a quest?”
“What is the quest? What has he or she been asked to do?”
“Who does your hero go on the journey with?”
“Where do they go?”
“What obstacles do they encounter?”
“What is the supreme ordeal? What is the big obstacle that your hero has to overcome at the end of the journey?”
“What happens at the end? How is peace restored?”
What are the elements of myth you might include in your story?”
“What will the theme of your story be?”

10. Moving On…
S L A N T

11. Formalizing a Plan for My Hero’s Journey Narrative
Now that you have recorded a lot of notes and ideas about your hero’s journey story on your Narrative Story Line—Hero’s Journey graphic organizer, you will begin to structure those ideas more formally on an organizer that will help you turn your ideas into writing.
The Narrative Story Line—Hero’s Journey organizer was just for initial thinking and ideas. But now you are actually going to be thinking about how those notes and ideas can be used to write a narrative like “The Golden Key.”
Turn to page Hero’s Journey Narrative: Plan Graphic Organizer. Let’s discuss the graphic organizer.

12. Hero’s Journey Narrative: Plan Graphic Organizer
Stage of “The Hero’s Journey”
My Hero’s Journey
(Sequence of Events)
Writer’s Craft Ideas
(Style and Craft)
Entering the Unknown
What is the new world your hero enters?
Supernatural Aid/Meeting with the Mentor/Allies and Helpers
Who is going to help your hero on the journey?
How does your hero meet these helpers?
Writer’s craft is the series of decisions and writing moves authors make to better communicate their ideas with their readers. Writer’s craft includes but is not limited to: word choice, strong leads, meaningful details, figurative language, and endings that provide closure. Leave this column blank for now.

13. Closing
Mix and Mingle: My Hero’s Journey • Think about how to tell someone the plot of your hero’s journey in no more than three sentences. • Mix and Mingle: 1. I will play music while you move around to the music. 2. When the music stops, you must stop and tell your hero’s journey story to the person closest to you in no more than three sentences.
3. Repeat until students have spoken to three people.