Mod 2 Lesson 8

Vocabulary

​Word	​Meaning	​Synonyms/Examples
​revived (v.)	to bring back to life	​restored

Essential Question

What is the significance and power of the hero's journey?

Handout 2A

Reread your response to statement seven and add on to your response to tell if Rama's experiences validate or disprove the truthfulness of this statement.

Focusing Question

How does Ramayana: Divine Loophole exhibit the genre expectations of a monomyth?

Framing Question

Reveal: What does a deeper exploration of structure reveal in Ramayana: Divine Loophole?

Fill in the Blanks

Multiple Choice

Rama and Ravana are equally matched in terms of power, but who wins in the end?

• Rama

• Ravana

Open Ended

How was Rama able to defeat Ravana, since no god or demon can beat him?

Compare Stages of The Monomyth

We are going to re-watch the Ted Talk video about the hero's journey. As we watch highlight the stages you hear on the handout.

Drag and Drop

The stages of the hero's journey begins in the​

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world and ends in​ the

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world.

Drag these tiles and drop them in the correct blank above

unkown

ordinary

Drag and Drop

Most of the action takes place in the​

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world.

Drag these tiles and drop them in the correct blank above

ordinary

unknown

Reorder

A monomyth's circular structure is divided into three parts.

• ordinary world

• unknown world

• return

1

2

3

• 1
• 2
• 3

Winkler vs. Campbell

The stages discussed in the video are simplified and taken from the more complex stages first identified by an anthropologist Joseph Campbell and it was later simplified by screenwriter and author Christopher Vogler, who wrote text in Handout 8A.

Handout 8A

Using your Winkler's Stages Handout, compare and contrast it to Joseph Campell's stages.

Winkler vs. Campbell

Even though we've learned about both Winkler's and Vogler's stages of the monomyth's structure, we'll be using Vogler's for our module. But remember, it was Joseph Campbell who originally identified the stages of the hero's journey in 1949.

Open Ended

What does "Ravana's Rampage" convey (101)?

Study Shadow Archetype

​Word	​Meaning	​Synonyms/Examples
​rampage (n.)	​A violent and angry course of behavior	​fury, rage

Open Ended

Turn to page 101. What important details about Ravana's rampage does Patel include, and what do they help develop?

Open Ended

Examine the descriptive details on pages 106-113. What do they convey about the characters and plot?

Shadow Archetype

In your Character Archetype Reference page, let's discuss what qualities Ravana possess of the Shadow.

Craft Question

Experiment: How do descriptive details in narrative writing work?

Narrative Scene

Today we will complete Day 3 of our Narrative Scene. You will write your third paragraph based on your sequencing outline. Today, focus on using descriptive details to develop the characters and action in the second event of the scene's sequence.