• Grab your journals from the back and
answer the following questions:
• What is a hero?
• What qualities or traits does a hero
possess?
• Who is a hero in your life and why?
• Read the article, “Heroes, Not Celebrities”
• Think about the traits of a hero you wrote about in
your journals and what you think Captain Sully
possesses
• Discuss the following questions with a partner and
be prepared to share with the class:
• Do celebrities qualify as heroes?
• If they are heroes, what do celebrities have that
everyday heroes do not?
• Do you agree with what the author is saying? Why
or Why not?
• Watch the following two video clips
• Think about whether or not the two
people portrayed were heroic or not
• Is one more heroic than the other?
Why?
• What are some qualities or traits that
you believe make a hero?
• How do people view these heroes?
• What obstacles/challenges have they
overcome?
• How have they affected other people’s lives?
• Your group will receive a scenario.
Read through it and discuss whether or
not you think the person is heroic or not
• List some of the traits that the person
has
• Create a rationale of why you chose
your answer
• Be prepared to share in front of the class
• Think about your answers in your journal
• Does the person you identified as a hero still
qualify?
• What are some traits that you did not identify,
but now consider to be heroic?
• Write a new description of what is a hero.
• Ted Talks: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/what-makes-a-heromatthew-winkler
• Cpt. Sully:
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ih5CPeKl-Ds
• The Man in the Water:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dz9JKtvC_wE
• Disney’s Hero’s Journey:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBr97zaWj8M
• Star Wars Hero’s Journey:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xJoKilnqfw
• A generalized sequence or pattern that individuals undergo
• Cyclical in Nature
• Many stories and movies follow or borrow from it
• Invites the initiate onto the adventure
• The audience meets the initiate and sees his/her everyday life
• The initiate wants to begin his/her journey
• Keeps the initiate focused on
goals and provides stability
• Character that encourages
the initiate to answer the call
• The “jumping off point”
• The point where the initiate
begins his/her journey
• The initiate commits to
whatever challenges may be
ahead
• Protects by blocking the initiate from taking the journey
before he/she is ready
• Sometimes hopes to prevent the journey from happening at
all
• The world full of dangers and challenges
• The initiate is not aware of what awaits him/her here
• Meets allies and enemies
• Where the initiate “slays the dragon”
• The initiate will typically fail at first
• Initiate faces their greatest fear/challenge
• Revelation: During this stage, a part of the initiate dies so
that a new part can be born
• Transformation: Sudden, dramatic change in the way one
thinks
• Achieved when the
initiate is “at one” with
himself or herself
• Comes to terms with the
transformation and
journey as a whole
• In this stage, the hero begins contributing to his/her society
• In most cases, returns home with a gift or treasure for the
greater good
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Answering the Call: Volunteers as tribute for her sister
Threshold: Leaving District 12 to compete in the games
Mentor: Previous champion picked to train her
Threshold Guardian: Best friend doesn’t want her to leave
Unknown: Capital City, where she has never been before
Abyss: The actual Hunger Games
Transformation/Revelation: Katniss plays by her own rules
Atonement: Katniss is going to eat the berries, so there is no winner
The Return: Coming home as a champion
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Answering the Call: Harry leaves home to go to Hogwarts
Threshold: Going to some forbidden area that he isn’t allowed
Mentor: Dumbledore helps Harry in times of need
Threshold Guardian: Best friends try to keep him out of trouble
Unknown: Bypassing obstacles and challenges with magic
Abyss: Meeting the villain and confronting him/her
Transformation/Revelation: Harry nearly dies in the confrontation
Atonement: Harry accepts his destiny and overcomes evil
The Return: Leaving Hogwarts with new know knowledge or treasure
• Within your group, come up with a story
• It can be a popular one already made such as a
movie or book
• Or it can be one that your group makes up
• Break down the parts of the hero’s journey and
identify them on the back in a few sentences
• Using the worksheet, identify the parts of a Hero’s Journey
with your table
• Each person will go to a new table and create their part of
the Hero’s Journey from a story or movie on the list or their
own
• They will then regroup at their regular seats to share their
part
• Once everyone has shared their part, put together the whole
story
• They are supposed to sound wacky!
• We will share these as a class
• 1: Answering the Call, information of the Hero’s every
day life, and The Return
• 2: The Mentor or Guide and Threshold Guardian
(Gatekeeper)
• 3: Threshold and Atonement
• 4: Unknown and Enemies and Allies and Dangers
ahead
• 5: Abyss and the Hero’s greatest fear/challenge
• 6: Revelation and Transformation
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Batman
Iron Man
Harry Potter
Finding Nemo
Lion King
Percy Jackson
Man of Steel (Superman)
Avatar
Harry Potter
The Goonies
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Star Wars
Lord of the Rings
Wizard of Oz
Cinderella
Lilo and Stitch
Thor
Captain America
Indiana Jones
Hunger Games
Holes
• Using the handout, you are to construct your own Hero’s
Journey
• It can be about someone in real life, but the story has to be
fictional!
• Make sure that each part of the journey is accurate about
what we learned today