Sleepy Hollow "Legend and Hero/Heroine"

Sleepy Hollow Heroes and Characterization

1/14 Points

• Determine setting, culture, and character traits and relate to legend genre. 

• Determine character types, traits, motivations and relationships in Sleepy Hollow. 

BELLRINGER QUESTION:

• What is a hero for you? Do they exist? What happens to people when they become heroes? In what way do they change? In what way do our expectations of them change?

1/14 Agenda

• Bellringer

• Learn about Heroes

• Complete Hero workbook questions

• HOMEWORK: #8-10 pg. 87-88 Anthology workbook (in assignments)

Legend

• A traditional story from a specific culture or area that is passed down from generation to generation

• Usually set in the distant past and begin as oral stories

• Based on real, historical events or people.

• Both the teller and the listener may believe the story is true

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Legends (continued)

• Legends almost always include characteristics of a specific culture

• This allows readers to discover traditions and values that may be very new to them, but very old to others.

Setting of a Legend

• A number of characteristics of a culture and what that culture values can be illustrated by setting.

• EXAMPLE: A legend set in a lush forest might suggest that the culture the legend originated in placed a high value on nature.

Multiple Select

Which of these is a characteristic of a Legend?

• Focus on politics

• A story from a specific culture or area

• passed down from one generation to another

• Always set in a lush forest

Heroes

• A hero (male) or heroine (female) is a character whose actions are noble.

• The hero or heroine is often the main character of a story.

• Heroes and heroines must typically overcome great obstacles of perform extraordinary tasks. They also act bravely.

• They are especially common in myths and legends, and tyhey often have special powers, equipment, or protectors.

Poll

Do you think Icabod Crane possesses characteristics of a "Hero"?

• yes

• no

CLASS PRACTICE

Anthology workbook pg. 85-87 #1-7

Open Ended

What is a Legend? What aspects of Legends do you see in the story "Sleepy Hollow"?