CREATING YOUR HERO Use your imagination to create an original hero. On a separate sheet of paper, sketch your image of a hero. Label unique characteristics and give him or her a meaningful name. In the right column, use the prompting questions to brainstorm ideas for a story.

The hero:
The Story Exposition
Use these questions to spark ideas. Is the hero male or female? Young or old? Well liked or misunderstood? Conspicuous (obvious) or nondescript (ordinary)?

Setting: (In what kind of place does your hero live? Does he or she live in the past, present, or future?)

Character: (What are the hero’s strengths and weaknesses? Who are the hero’s family and friends? What does the hero do every day? What does the hero want in life? What do others want from the hero?)

Conflicts: (What challenges might the hero experience? How might the hero transform into someone stronger?)

The Hook
Nobody wants to read a dull story or one that goes on for several paragraphs before it starts becoming interesting. That’s what makes the hook important. A hook is the opening sentence or sentences that capture the reader’s interest. Hooks come in many forms. In a narrative, hooks often introduce a character or setting.

Introducing a Character: “Late in the winter of my seventeenth year, my mother decided I was depressed, presumably because I rarely left the house, spent quite a lot of time in bed, read the same book over and over, ate infrequently, and devoted quite a bit of my abundant free time to thinking about death.” (Green, The Fault in Our Stars) or “I know I’m not an ordinary ten-year-old kid.” (Palacio, Wonder)

Introducing a Setting: “In the April night, more than once, blossoms fell from the orchard trees and lit with rustling taps on the drumskin.” (“The Drummer Boy of Shiloh”) or “It was one of those super-duper-cold Saturdays.” (Curtis, The Watsons Go to Birmingham)

Think about possible hooks for your Hero’s Journey narrative as you proceed.

The Departure
Now, think about the hero you just created on page . What might the hero experience in the Departure Stage of his or her journey? Draft the beginning of a narrative using the three steps in this stage (The Call, The Refusal, and The Beginning) to guide your structure and development. Be sure to:
Begin with a hook that helps establish a context and point of view (first-person or third-person).
Use narrative techniques such as dialogue, pacing, and description to develop experiences, events, and/or characters.
Make use of complete complex and compound-complex sentences.
Use details and imagery to create mood.
Think about graphic novel elements needed to illustrate this portion of the journey

The Initiation
Think about the hero you created in the previous activity. What might the hero experience in the Initiation Stage of his or her journey? Draft an event using your understanding of the Road of Trials to guide your structure and development. Be sure to:
Use narrative techniques such as dialogue, pacing, and description and develop experiences, events, and/or characters.
Use diction, detail, and imagery to create tone and mood.
Sequence the event logically and naturally and use transitions to connect ideas.
Think about graphic novel elements needed to illustrate this portion of the journey
Think about the shapes, shading, and expressions used in the visual depictions of the Odyssey and how the artist uses these devices to evoke a certain mood. What scene from your narrative would make a good visual?

The Return
Revisit your hero narrative. What might your hero learn by the end of the Return Stage in his or her journey? Draft an ending to your narrative using your understanding of the Crossing/Return Threshold to guide your development. Be sure to:
Make sure the ending to your story follows the previous events logically and naturally.
Include some reflection in the ending and answer the question: What does the hero learn?
Use narrative techniques such as dialogue, pacing, and description.
Incorporate sentences that use the different verb moods you have learned about in this lesson.
Think about graphic novel elements needed to illustrate this portion of the journey

Practice
Post a part of Embedded Assessment 1 for Unit 1 that is problematic to the PEER REVIEW. Be certain to include the specific problem with as many details as possible.
Respond to at least two of your peers with specific feedback to help their problematic areas of Embedded Assessment 1 for Unit 1.

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Explanation:

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by: nita twenty thousand leagues under the sea some time ago, i decided to read twenty thousand leagues under the sea, by jules verne. i figured that because it was so well known it must be an extremely interesting book. in addition, it was science fiction, the one area that i was always interested. my assumption was only partially correct, for i only was to a degree interested in the piece of writing. when jules verne was writing this book, he must have been reading some incredibly dull science book the day before, for that was what the book was written as.  

the style of writing was utterly against my tastes, and though the plot was moderately interesting, the style of writing really ruined it. often, the author will trail off describing some marine animal for pages at a time. two entire chapters were almost entirely this! however, the setting and characters of the story seemed to be well thought out. nevertheless, 20,000 leagues under the sea was an extremely tedious volume. when the story was introduced, jules verne described m. aronnax, the main character, whose love for marine biology was more important than anything else to him did.  

this immediately led to the international crisis about a bizarre aquatic creature, which immediately dragged m. aronnax into the action. due to his expertise on the matter, the public expected pierre to be the one to solve this mystery. m. aronnax, under all this pressure, concluded that the animal was to be called the narwhale. at first, the matter was taken lightly, and only expert scientists were involved. however, when this animal began to become a threat to all ships in the water, the military took the issue into its own hands.  

it promptly fitted a frigate, the abraham lincoln, to destroy the beast, and invited pierre to join them, for his science capabilities. for many months they searched, but could not find this narwhale anywhere. when they found it, it attacked the ship, disabling it, and sending m. aronnax, ned land (a harpooner) and conseil (servant of pierre) overboard. soon, the three were guests in the narwhale, now known to be a ship, the nautilus, commanded by captain nemo. during the stay aboard the nautilus, pierre conseil and ned encounter and discover many wonderful and interesting facts from the sea. often, they would accompany the captain in an under water expedition.  

several of these excursions were to hunt, and others were simply to explore a submarine region. one of the times when the purpose was just to investigate an underwater region, captain nemo and m. aronnax explored the lost city of atlantis. on a separate occasion, pierre found that there was a supply of coal underwater that the nautilus used as a source of fuel. in addition to underwater excursions, the nautilus itself was on a round the world journey, which accounted for the most exiting time of the book. this was when captain nemo was attempting to access the south pole.  

that meant passing the great ice barrier, and surviving with very little air. during this rather long voyage, the submarine gets wedged between two icebergs, and is almost crushed! to add to this, the inhabitants of the nautilus almost die of suffocation from the lack of air. finally, at the end of the book, the three friends narrowly escape that nautilus.  

this all occurs during the maelstrom, which is a deadly storm, which makes the escape so daring. at the end, the three friends end up in a fisherman's shack, not knowing how they arrived, for they were knocked unconscious. that is how the events in the story twenty thousand leagues under the sea took place. the main character in this book was an extremely well recognized marine biologist named m. pierre aronnax. m. aronnax is one who gets the most benefit throughout the course of the book. pierre was always curious, which often got in the way of following his instincts and good judgment.  

also, he sometimes talked to himself! in addition, his faithful servant, conseil, follows his master during all of his adventures. conseil never really said much, and the role he played was one of a calm and humble person. another character of importance was ned land, the most well known harpooner of all his time. this man proved himself to be very useful when the threesome attempt to escape the nautilus. on the other hand, ned land was always quick tempered, and free willed.  

these qualities almost got many people killed many times during the book. the next most important character and perhaps the most outlandish one of all was captain nemo. note that this was not his real name, however, the actual name was never given in the book. captain nemo was forever strict and secretive to everyone. he never showed any emotion on his face, and never showed any bodily expressions in any way except when he was in extreme anguish. the setting that the story took place in was quite interesting.  

explanation:

the correct order is:

you're your own worst enemy:

they're going to say what they say, but

their opinions aren't holding you

back. it's your self-defeatist

attitude that's keeping your work

from getting its due.