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A Hero's Journey Remixed: The Odyssey x Stranger Things

🎙️ Episode 5 - A Hero's Journey Remixed: The Odyssey x Stranger Things

 

✨ What you’ll hear inside:

We are all living the hero's journey in some way, but what IS the hero’s journey? Joseph Campbell, an American mythologist, is credited with popularizing the concept of the hero's journey, or monomyth, in his 1949 book The Hero with a Thousand Faces. There are SEVERAL different adaptations of what the hero’s journey means, the one that I have used for my classes involves 12 stages in which the hero crosses from the ordinary world to the extraordinary world, but they all have the same goal which is to demonstrate the complexities of the hero as they navigate their life/destiny.

In today’s episode, we’re talking “The Hero’s Journey” as it relates to The Odyssey, connecting back to Stranger Things on Netflix. You ready for this adventure?!

 

 

 Essential Questions: Journal Prompts/Small Group Discussions

  • What makes someone a hero?
  • What do obstacles and failures teach us about ourselves?
  • What do kids have to offer to the world?
  • What does bravery look like at your age?
  • How can I be a hero in where I am today in life? / In my future path?
  • How can ordinary people do extraordinary things?
  • What helps us keep hope alive when we're surrounded by darkness?

 

Rapid Fire Recs -

  • Epic: The Musical Concept Album - available on Spotify
  • Percy Jackson: The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
  • Moana
  • Hercules
  • Super 8 - available on Amazon Prime Video 
  • Black Panther
  • The Goonies
  • Harry Potter*
  • The Last of Us* - show on Hulu
  • Enrique’s Journey by Sonia Nazario
  • Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah

  

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