Content Focus: Hero’s Journey and Urban Legends in English elective Myths and Legends

Language Focus: Writing and analysis

Vocabulary Focus: Urban Legend, Mythology, Trickster, Regionalism, Hero’s Journey departure step, Hero’s Journey initiation step, Hero’s Journey return step

Standards:

• ENG10L106: Use academic and domain-specific words, phrases and vocabulary knowledge.
• ENG10R101: Cite evidence to support analysis of explicit text and inferences drawn.
• ENG10S102: Evaluate and integrate multiple sources of information presented.
• ENG10S103: Evaluate a speaker’s point of view, reasoning, and use of evidence.
• ENG10S105: Include strategic multimedia components in effective presentations.

Arts Integration: The art of collage

Lesson Objectives:

• Learn about urban legends and the terminology associated with it.
• Use the knowledge from the world myths unit to supplement this one.
• Watch and analyze the urban legend movie “The Mothman Prophecies.”
• Learn about collages and symbolism in art.
• Create a collage using symbolism from the movie.

Activities: Learn components, watch and analyze movie, learn collage information, plan collage with symbolism from movie, create collage

Engagement/Introduction: Start unit with urban legends from Snopes and stories that are true and have them guess which is which.

Assessment Procedure: The assessment is in two parts. The first is the analysis of the movie. The second is the writing portion of the collage and the collage itself.

Materials:

• White poster board: $14.99
• Tissue paper: $9.99
• Construction Paper: $36.99
• Glue: $32.66
• Sharpies: $9.98

Supporting Documents: Presentation

Contact: Sara Klein (sara.klein@oshkosh.k12.wi.us)