Objective:
Students will recognize what are the criteria of the hero in folk legends, and apply that to a folk hero they have discussed.
Explain:
Heroes are made not born; they became legends before they die. They come to be heroes because contemporaries have come to have standards of heroic actions. “When a particular figure represents the heroic virtues for a whole people, we call him a culture hero.”
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Culture heroes differ from real heroes in many ways; these are:
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Miraculous birth
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Rapid maturation
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Virtuous (brave, strong and intelligent)
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Confront and overcome enemies of malevolence and power, and obstacles of insurmountable difficulty
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Teach their peers practical and moral wisdom
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Usually die young promising to return.
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High John and Stagolee are culture heroes. Students have read the High John and the Stagolee stories.
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They are to write the examples for each character to determine if Stagolee and John are culture heroes.
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Worksheet
Analysis, Synthesis, Evaluation, and Application of Stories Collected
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Analysis
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What kind of person is the main character? (young, old, city, country, real or legendary)
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Can this person live in the city as well as the country?
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What were the facts about the person who is the main character and what inferences were made?
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Synthesis
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Categorize the factual events from the exaggerated events.
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Rewrite the important events of the story and revise the conclusions of these events.
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Application
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Compare the positive attributes the folk hero has to be a modern day folk hero.
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Compare the negative characteristics of the folk hero to the modern day folk hero.
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Evaluation
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What important lessons might be learned from the story?
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How could the hero have changed the situations that he was found in.
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