Hero's Journey Project Reflection

If you read my other blogs posts, you would know that for the past month my class has been reading Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie. Each student in my class was assigned to read the book under one of the lenses, Hero's Journey, Satire, Allusion, or Allegory. I was assigned to read as Hero's Journey. Each lens group had to create a project to teach and illustrate their main points of the lens to the class in a creative way. My group decided to create a story map or "path" based on a suggestion from our teacher.

It was a very simple concept, but it did not have a simple process to get there. The idea is very similar to things I have probably done in other grades, but my group felt like it was the best way to convey the main points of the monomyth cycle in a way that was easy to understand. My group personally had a lot of internal conflict, but now is not the time to address that. All I will say is that sometimes it can be frustrating to work in a group where you have differing opinions. One of the things I enjoyed most about my group's project were the concepts we based our project on. We used this image and the video, "Everything is a Remix" as inspiration.:

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To grade the group project, many teachers including mine use a Design Specs rubric. I think that a teacher would tell me that they wish the project was not poorly cut and taped to the poster. I personally believe that the project's relationship to "Everything Is A Remix" was very important to the selection of our other Disney characters to portray the other main characters. I also do not think that our project's meaning focused on anything other than how evident the concept of the Hero's Journey is in every story. I don't know how easy it will be to make our poster shareable, but I will give it a good effort.

If I every had to recreate this project, I would make a concerted effort to keep our group in tacked. I would also have created the poster online because it is easier to display. I would also add quotations from the book to communicate our main plot point in the story to the rest of the here our class mated can actual

I can definitely say I learned a lot from this particular project that will be implemented into the following projects.