This week Room 9 has been working on how to craft a narrative story, and with their high level of narrative structure knowledge I thought it would be cool to take them through a different approach than just using the story mountain template (which is good but also limits the complexities of a narrative story sometimes). So Room 9 has looked at the stages of a hero based off of Joseph Campbells famous book "The Hero with a thousand faces".
We have used the template below to help plan out an intricate story about a girl named Millie who lives on Uranus in a desert city whose main source of export is sand and water (collected from Cacti). The template we have used is the fundamental structure for almost all movies involving a hero (Think Star Wars, Avengers, Harry Potter etc...) and was great fun for the students to learn how to piece together a hero's adventure. We also added the visual aspect of creating a (rough) map of the trail our hero must take in order to return to her ordinary world. A highly recomended task for adept students who want to go beyond standard graphic organisers and really look at how hero's are created.
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