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This lesson is interesting to students, but it doesn’t challenge them—it’s really more of a relaxation activity as their skills with the characters are high, but the difficulty need to be made higher (Csikszentmihalyi, n.d.).
First, I would ask students to list two movies they enjoy and to make a Venn Diagram comparing the main characters of the movie. This will activate their prior knowledge about the characters while forcing them to think about them in a more challenging way. Then, I would have them read about the Hero’s Journey and fill out a graphic organizer explaining the steps and applying them to their characters of choice. This will be challenging because they will be reading new information and making connections to it. This will lead to flow because they are confident in their skills to use the organizer and make comparisons, yet they are challenged by the new information in the article.
At that point, I would show them the video, but we would be using it to check their knowledge instead of to deliver knowledge to them. They would then be tasked with presenting the steps of the hero’s journey as they relate to the characters that they analyzed while reading. They would create their own Hero’s Journey movie using Video Editor, Adobe Spark, Flipgrid, paper slides, or iMovie. They could choose what they feel most skilled at using, as we will have practiced a lot of those platforms by the time we do mythology in December.
Csikszentmihalyi, M. (n.d.). Flow, the secret to happiness. Retrieved from https://www.ted.com/talks/mihaly_csikszentmihalyi_on_flow
First, I would ask students to list two movies they enjoy and to make a Venn Diagram comparing the main characters of the movie. This will activate their prior knowledge about the characters while forcing them to think about them in a more challenging way. Then, I would have them read about the Hero’s Journey and fill out a graphic organizer explaining the steps and applying them to their characters of choice. This will be challenging because they will be reading new information and making connections to it. This will lead to flow because they are confident in their skills to use the organizer and make comparisons, yet they are challenged by the new information in the article.
At that point, I would show them the video, but we would be using it to check their knowledge instead of to deliver knowledge to them. They would then be tasked with presenting the steps of the hero’s journey as they relate to the characters that they analyzed while reading. They would create their own Hero’s Journey movie using Video Editor, Adobe Spark, Flipgrid, paper slides, or iMovie. They could choose what they feel most skilled at using, as we will have practiced a lot of those platforms by the time we do mythology in December.
Csikszentmihalyi, M. (n.d.). Flow, the secret to happiness. Retrieved from https://www.ted.com/talks/mihaly_csikszentmihalyi_on_flow