The Hero's Journey: Grade 6 ELA
Explore the stages of the Hero's Journey with this engaging worksheet for 6th graders, featuring reading comprehension and critical thinking.
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Read the information about the Hero's Journey and answer the questions that follow. Use complete sentences for your answers.
The Hero's Journey is a common pattern of narrative identified by Joseph Campbell. It describes the typical adventure of the archetype hero. This pattern is found in countless myths, legends, and stories across different cultures and times. It's a journey of transformation where the hero leaves their ordinary world, faces challenges, and returns changed.
Key Stages of the Hero's Journey:
1. The Ordinary World: The hero's normal life before the adventure begins.
2. Call to Adventure: The hero is presented with a problem, challenge, or adventure.
3. Refusal of the Call: The hero initially hesitates or refuses to go on the adventure.
4. Meeting the Mentor: The hero meets a wise guide who gives them advice or magical gifts.
5. Crossing the Threshold: The hero leaves the ordinary world and enters a new, special world.
6. Tests, Allies, and Enemies: The hero faces challenges, makes friends, and encounters foes.
7. Approach to the Inmost Cave: The hero prepares for the biggest challenge.
8. Ordeal: The hero faces their greatest fear or a life-or-death crisis.
9. Reward (Seizing the Sword): The hero conquers the ordeal and claims a reward.
10. The Road Back: The hero begins the journey home, but new dangers may arise.
11. Resurrection: The hero faces one final, ultimate test before returning to the ordinary world, often a final purification.
12. Return with the Elixir: The hero returns to the ordinary world, bringing a gift or lesson that benefits their community.
1. Who identified the common pattern of narrative known as the Hero's Journey?
J.K. Rowling
Joseph Campbell
William Shakespeare
George Lucas
2. What happens during the 'Refusal of the Call' stage?
The hero meets a mentor.
The hero enters a special world.
The hero initially hesitates to go on the adventure.
The hero faces their greatest fear.
1. The Hero's Journey only applies to ancient myths and legends.
True
False
2. The 'Reward' stage occurs before the 'Ordeal' stage.
True
False
1. The hero's normal life before the adventure begins is called the .
2. When the hero leaves the ordinary world and enters a new, special world, it is called .
3. The hero often receives advice or magical gifts from a .
1. Think of a movie or book you know. Briefly describe one stage of the Hero's Journey that the main character experiences.
2. Why do you think the Hero's Journey pattern is found in so many different stories?