Standards Connections

Elementary Level

Common Core Connections

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Students write a realistic fiction piece with a clear story arc (sequence of events) that mirrors that of the Path of the Hero introduced in school.

English Language Arts Standards » Writing » Grade 4

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.4.3Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.4.3.AOrient the reader by establishing a situation and introducing a narrator and/or characters; organize an event sequence that unfolds naturally.

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Students write a narrative around an apotheosis that they have had in their life and record their narrative through a podcast medium.

English Language Arts Standards » Speaking & Listening » Grade 4

Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.4.4Report on a topic or text, tell a story, or recount an experience in an organized manner, using appropriate facts and relevant, descriptive details to support main ideas or themes; speak clearly at an understandable pace.

English Language Arts Standards » Writing » Grade 4

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.4.3Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences.

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Students both read a variety of texts and watch a variety of short films and movies and are able to apply the Monomyth to these works, recognizing similar patterns.

English Language Arts Standards » Reading: Literature » Grade 4

Integration of Knowledge and Ideas:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.4.9Compare and contrast the treatment of similar themes and topics (e.g., opposition of good and evil) and patterns of events (e.g., the quest) in stories, myths, and traditional literature from different cultures.

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Students choose a personal hero in their life correlated to a certain suit and color of a card related to that person. They research that hero, present their findings to the class, and share why that hero is meaningful to them, and why that person is a hero.

English Language Arts Standards » Speaking & Listening » Grade 4

Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas:

English Language Arts Standards »

Reading: Informational Text » Grade 4

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.4.1Refer to details and examples in a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.4.2Determine the main idea of a text and explain how it is supported by key details; summarize the text.CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.4.3Explain events, procedures, ideas, or concepts in a historical, scientific, or technical text, including what happened and why, based on specific information in the text.

English Language Arts Standards » Writing » Grade 4

Research to Build and Present Knowledge:CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.4.7Conduct short research projects that build knowledge through investigation of different aspects of a topic.CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.4.8Recall relevant information from experiences or gather relevant information from print and digital sources; take notes and categorize information, and provide a list of sources.

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A STEM project in collaboration with our art teacher. She asks the students to think about a hero in their own lives. In STEM, they measure their body portions and scale them down to 10x the size of their body. Whatever hero they selected, they create that hero out of clay or other materials in art. They then make clothing for their hero and write a small paragraph about the reason they chose that person as their hero.

National Art Standards: VISUAL ARTS - Creating

Anchor Standard 2: Organize and develop artistic ideas and work. Enduring Understanding: Artists and designers experiment with forms, structures, materials, concepts, media, and art-making approaches. 4th Grade. VA:Cr2.1.4a Explore and invent art-making techniques and approaches.4th Grade. VA:Cr2.2.4a When making works of art, utilize and care for materials, tools, and equipment in a manner that prevents danger to oneself and others.

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Deep dive into the Mayan Calendar vs the Greek Alphabet. Discuss place value and letter placement. Discuss the beginning of the number "zero" in world cultures and how these evolved in various places throughout the world by different cultures. Question: How might a new monetary system be a burden to families previously depending on non-monetary trade?

Number & Operations in Base » Ten Grade 4

Generalize place value understanding for multi-digit whole numbers.

CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.4.NBT.A.1Recognize that in a multi-digit whole number, a digit in one place represents ten times what it represents in the place to its right. For example, recognize that 700 ÷ 70 = 10 by applying concepts of place value and division.CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.4.NBT.A.2Read and write multi-digit whole numbers using base-ten numerals, number names, and expanded form. Compare two multi-digit numbers based on meanings of the digits in each place, using >, =, and < symbols to record the results of comparisons.CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.4.NBT.A.3Use place value understanding to round multi-digit whole numbers to any place.Use place value understanding and properties of operations to perform multi-digit arithmetic.

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Research how various cultures divided up resources. Apply this to class conversation and investigation. Assign students a culture and have them explore their monetary units and current trade system. Have them design a presentation informing other students how their citizens handle monetary trade. Focus on how "change" was made within these cultures (ie: UK pence vs US coins). Question: How might a new monetary system be a burden to families previously depending on non-monetary trade?

Number & Operations in Base Ten » Grade 5

Understand the place value system.

CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.5.NBT.A.3Read, write, and compare decimals to thousandths.

Perform operations with multi-digit whole numbers and with decimals to hundredths.

CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.5.NBT.B.7Add, subtract, multiply, and divide decimals to hundredths, using concrete models or drawings and strategies based on place value, properties of operations, and/or the relationship between addition and subtraction; relate the strategy to a written method and explain the reasoning used.

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Middle School Level

Common Core Connections

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Make a visual Hero’s Journey for a scientist and their discoveries. Dive deep into the vocabulary this scientist would have used within their practice, including word structure and language of origin. Include key events in their life and trials they faced.

ELA Standards » Science & Technical Subjects » Grade 6-8

Craft and Structure:CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RST.6-8.4Determine the meaning of symbols, key terms, and other domain-specific words and phrases as they are used in a specific scientific or technical context relevant to grades 6-8 texts and topics.
Integration of Knowledge and Ideas:CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RST.6-8.7Integrate quantitative or technical information expressed in words in a text with a version of that information expressed visually (e.g., in a flowchart, diagram, model, graph, or table).

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Design a visual representation of a person life, including the nine stages of the Hero’s Journey. Consider highlighting key dates and events where the hero overcame obstacles and had moments of apotheoses.

English Language Arts Standards » History/Social Studies » Grade 6-8

Integration of Knowledge and Ideas:CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RH.6-8.7Integrate visual information (e.g., in charts, graphs, photographs, videos, or maps) with other information in print and digital texts.

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Combine the knowledge gained from studying a book, movie and editorial of an author/playwright. Prepare a paper or poster which compares/contrasts the elements from the mentioned forms of media. Frame your project around the Hero’s Journey of one of the main characters within the book or movie. Alternately, discuss and show hero stage examples of the author/playwright, specifically focusing on their “Gift” and how that might be shared in a series or movie sequels. Include information gained from reading the editorial in the “Road of Trials.”

English Language Arts Standards » Speaking & Listening » Grade 6

Comprehension and Collaboration:CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.6.2Interpret information presented in diverse media and formats (e.g., visually, quantitatively, orally) and explain how it contributes to a topic, text, or issue under study. Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas:CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.6.5Include multimedia components (e.g., graphics, images, music, sound) and visual displays in presentations to clarify information.

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Have students design a "mock syllabus" for a class they would teach about the Path of the Hero. As part of this syllabus, they would need to write a synopsis of the Monomyth and how it will be heard/read/see in the course of their mock class.

English Language Arts Standards » Writing » Grade 6

Text Types and Purposes:CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.6.2Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas, concepts, and information through the selection, organization, and analysis of relevant content.

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Have students develop a mock culture, where there is a system of government, trade and religion, that is prevalent and maintained within the society. Have them draft "rules" of the society based on the stages of the Monomyth. Have them debate this mock society with a current society and it's cultural a governmental rules and norms.

English Language Arts Standards » Writing » Grade 7

Text Types and Purposes:CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.7.3Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, relevant descriptive details, and well-structured event sequences.

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Explore Joseph Campbell's quotes (see link below) and choose two which you personally relate. Select 1) an ancient culture and 2) a modern culture. Write an editorial or design an infographic, while comparing and contrasting two of Campbell's ideas/quotes and give suggestions for improvements/changes to both cultures based on these quotes. https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/20105.Joseph_Campbell

English Language Arts Standards » Writing » Grade 8

Research to Build and Present Knowledge:CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.8.7Conduct short research projects to answer a question (including a self-generated question), drawing on several sources and generating additional related, focused questions that allow for multiple avenues of exploration.

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Have a student deep dive into a Greek myth. Have them track the number of failures and successes. Then, have them design the percentage of success/failure in a story problem. As an additional task, have them document their own data (ie: basketball shots, laps, etc). Have them then reflect on the process and report out their apotheosis, trails and "gift" from the experience, along with their percentage of success/failure.

Math - Ratios & Proportional Relationships » Grade 6

Understand ratio concepts and use ratio reasoning to solve problems.CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.6.RP.A.3.CFind a percent of a quantity as a rate per 100 (e.g., 30% of a quantity means 30/100 times the quantity); solve problems involving finding the whole, given a part and the percent

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Have students research the US stock market crash of the 1920s. Have them choose a famous bank or investor to study. Along with a short report about the road of trials about the bankers, have them include historical facts/figures about the rates and interests required by the banks at the time.

Math - Ratios & Proportional Relationships » Grade 7

Analyze proportional relationships and use them to solve real-world and mathematical problems.CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.7.RP.A.3Use proportional relationships to solve multistep ratio and percent problems. Examples: simple interest, tax, markups and markdowns, gratuities and commissions, fees, percent increase and decrease, percent error.

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Study the agony of Pythagoras related to the Monomyth. Look at videos and read articles about his internal and external struggles. Design a comic strip or write a short play detailing how he and his critics would have vocalized his struggles, while working with whole numbers and triangle formations.

The Story of One - Terry Jones : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0qWCfxv4cw

The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/pythagoras/

Geometry » Grade 8

Understand and apply the Pythagorean Theorem.CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.8.G.B.6Explain a proof of the Pythagorean Theorem and its converse.CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.8.G.B.7Apply the Pythagorean Theorem to determine unknown side lengths in right triangles in real-world and mathematical problems in two and three dimensions.CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.8.G.B.8Apply the Pythagorean Theorem to find the distance between two points in a coordinate system.

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