Friday May 29th
Create your Northern Lights Creation Myth
Do Now (5 minutes): Mindfulness Do Now to get us in the creative mood!
Group Instruction (45 minutes):
1. A hero or heroine with a supernatural talent
2. ONE character archetypes (trickster, wicked stepmother, etc)
3. ONE archetypal symbols (snake, garden, sea, etc)
4. Follow the stages of the hero's journey
5. Have an insightful moral to the story
MYTH CHECKLIST
Purpose: explain how the Northern Lights came to be
Characters:
❏ The myth has heroes, heroines, gods or goddesses/deities
The myth describes the characters:
❏ Looks (physical features, costume, props)
❏ What they believe
❏ What they feel
❏ How they act
❏ Interesting personalities with vivid details
Setting : The “where” and “when” of the myth
❏ description of the place and time of the story
❏ Uses vivid details that help the reader visualize the place
Plot : The events of the myth
❏ The plot tells what is happening in your myth (following the 12 stages of the hero’s journey)
Sentences and writing structure
❏ Writing has complete sentences that uses vivid descriptive words
❏ Dialogue has quotation marks around spoken words of the character
❏ Sentences and proper nouns begin with capital letters
❏ Correct end punctuation is used; indents new paragraphs
Due 6/1. Include a picture for a possible 4!
**I will dismiss clean and quiet tables.**