Your Hero’s Journey
Your Hero’s Journey follows the story of an unsuspecting protagonist, focusing on their transformation from ordinary person to hero or heroine, specifically as they grow in strength. Imagine a training montage as they practice and refine their craft, or perhaps as they forge a unique weapon meant to slay the monster at the end of their tale. But this tune represents only a snippet of your hero's actual journey, the rest is unfinished. It’s still foggy, as if seen through frosted glass. They need your help to be successful. Can you help finish their story?
Your Hero’s Journey is available from Murphy Music Press!
The Hero with A Thousand Faces by Joseph Cambell (1949) describes the “monomyth” or universal story structure found throughout our literary history in tales like The Odyssey, The Lord of The Rings, The Lion King, Harry Potter, Star Wars, Moana, Frozen and so many more. I’ve created some resources and questions to help students explore this story structure and tell the rest of the story of the piece. These questions can be answered as a class, as warm-up discussion activities, small groups or as individual writing assignments. Click Here to download them!
For more information about the Hero’s Journey, check out The Hero With A Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell, A Practical Guide to The Hero with a Thousand Faces, by Christopher Vogler, or The Writer's Journey: Mythic Structure for Writers also by Christopher Vogler. Or go chat with your ELA teachers, I am willing to bet they would enjoy talking about it!