Star Wars Analysis Due; Grendel Book Discussion
Please use your lab time today to complete your Star Wars Hero's Journey analysis paper. Remember: titles of major works (novels, films, full length plays, epic poems, etc.) are italicized. This analysis draft is due by end of period 1.
Also, if you have completed your draft and proofread it or are ready to turn it in, you may begin planning or generating ideas for your mythic story retelling. Here's how to begin that:
1. Scour and flip through the collection of myths in Mythic Voices. Pick a myth outside of cultural Greece. You may feel free to do other portfolio pieces with the stories you have read: Cupid & Psyche, Theseus, The Golden Fleece, Perseus, Hercules, etc. [you will find Cupid (Eros) & Psyche, Hercules & the Hydra, Demeter & Persephone, Theseus, the Trojan War, Odysseus, and even Gilgamesh in the mythic voices collection. Do not pick these myths for this assignment, please.]
2. Choose a myth from the collection. Do not pick a myth you are familiar with. Read the myth. As you read, consider how you might update or alter the story. Take notes, create a mind-map, or outline ideas. Consider how many scenes you might need to write to tell the story (what might those scenes be?--use index cards to arrange scenes, etc.)
3. Feel free to use Northrop Frye or Joseph Campbell's theories to outline/construct your plot.
4. Use Jungian archetypes for characters (ego types): the trickster, shadows, the caregiver, the rebel, etc. Look at the 12 common archetypes here. You may also use Northrop Frye's or Joseph Campbell's archetypes. Feel free to combine, change, remove, or extend the characters in the original myth.
5. Like the novel Grendel, retell or update or recreate the original myth in some creative way. Use post modern/contemporary writing techniques such as multiple perspective, poetic prose, metafiction, or stream of consciousness.
6. Write a draft. This will be a requirement for your 2nd marking period portfolio. The project is not due until January. You may workshop the draft in December.
CLASSROOM:
Get into discussion groups of 3-4. Using the novel Grendel, discuss the following:
Also, if you have completed your draft and proofread it or are ready to turn it in, you may begin planning or generating ideas for your mythic story retelling. Here's how to begin that:
1. Scour and flip through the collection of myths in Mythic Voices. Pick a myth outside of cultural Greece. You may feel free to do other portfolio pieces with the stories you have read: Cupid & Psyche, Theseus, The Golden Fleece, Perseus, Hercules, etc. [you will find Cupid (Eros) & Psyche, Hercules & the Hydra, Demeter & Persephone, Theseus, the Trojan War, Odysseus, and even Gilgamesh in the mythic voices collection. Do not pick these myths for this assignment, please.]
2. Choose a myth from the collection. Do not pick a myth you are familiar with. Read the myth. As you read, consider how you might update or alter the story. Take notes, create a mind-map, or outline ideas. Consider how many scenes you might need to write to tell the story (what might those scenes be?--use index cards to arrange scenes, etc.)
3. Feel free to use Northrop Frye or Joseph Campbell's theories to outline/construct your plot.
4. Use Jungian archetypes for characters (ego types): the trickster, shadows, the caregiver, the rebel, etc. Look at the 12 common archetypes here. You may also use Northrop Frye's or Joseph Campbell's archetypes. Feel free to combine, change, remove, or extend the characters in the original myth.
5. Like the novel Grendel, retell or update or recreate the original myth in some creative way. Use post modern/contemporary writing techniques such as multiple perspective, poetic prose, metafiction, or stream of consciousness.
6. Write a draft. This will be a requirement for your 2nd marking period portfolio. The project is not due until January. You may workshop the draft in December.
CLASSROOM:
Get into discussion groups of 3-4. Using the novel Grendel, discuss the following:
- Discuss the characters in the novel that each of you were examining: Grendel, Hrothgar, The Shaper, The Dragon, Unferth, Wealtheow (the queen), Hrothulf, or The Stranger. Discuss how these characters are developed and/or function in the novel.
- How does Grendel depict, describe, or label these characters? Share your list of labels or descriptive phrases/sentences/lines that help characterize the character you selected.
- Discuss Northrup Frye's archetypal theory as a key to understanding Grendel. Discuss what you notice or see as patterns that seem to fit Frye's theories.
- Discuss elements of Campbell & Jung's theories and archetypes in the novel.
- Discuss the use of poetic or literary devices in the novel: kenning, imagery, poetic devices, rhetorical devices, genre and form.
- Discuss themes and conflicts in the book: person versus nature, perspective, truth or reality versus illusion,
- Grendel considers himself a rational being. Others see him as a monster. Who is right?
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