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5. Skim/scan the first half of the story and revisit your sticky notes to determine the beginning of the protagonist’s journey, the Departure. It may be easiest to start with Step 3, the Beginning of the Adventure.
• Remember that the Hero’s Journey is organized sequentially, in chronological order (although some steps may occur at the same time or not at all). This means that once you connect a step to the story, the next step in the journey must reflect an event that occurs later in the story.
• Because this task is based on interpretation, there is more than one correct answer. To convince an audience of your interpretation, you must be able to provide a convincing explanation.
• Go back to the chart outline above and add connections to the story. Use this information in your response to the Expository Writing Prompt below.
Check Your Understanding
WRITING to SOURCES Expository Writing Prompt
Explain the beginning of the protagonist’s journey using the first three steps of the Hero’s Journey archetype to guide your explanation. Be sure to:
• Establish a clear controlling idea.
• Develop ideas with relevant and convincing evidence from the text (include at least one direct quotation) and analysis.
• Use appropriate and varied transitions to create coherence and clarify the relationships among ideas (e.g., steps in the Hero’s Journey).
• Use the active rather than the passive voice in your analysis, unless there is a specific reason to use the passive.
Word CoNNeCTIoNS
Roots and Affixes
Sequential is the adjective form of the word sequence, which comes from the Latin root sequi, meaning “to follow.”
Chronological order means “time order,” reflecting the origin of the word in chronos, a Greek word meaning “time.”
my Notes
Unit 2
• The Challenge of Utopia 131
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