Overview of Chapter 5: Hero Stories
Chapter 5 Class Activities for May 28 Thursday
Zoom Class Meetings Information
- We will watch Big Fish together in a class zoom meeting on May 28 Thursday from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Eastern (IUP) time
- Zoom Class Meeting Link
- Zoom Password: 466742
A Sense of Meaning
- Before we move to thinking about Hero Stories, I want to take a few moments to honor the work that you put into writing your Story of Healing
- We will take a few moments to let you meditate upon the experience and then offer, if you choose, one brief thought of reflection
A Comic Book Pedagogy Mission
- Do not work ahead; Dr. Pagnucci will guide the class through these activities on Thursday, May 28
- Video: “I Have Nothing to Prove”
- Agent Pagnucci (a.k.a. Dr. Gian Pagnucci)
- The IUP Avengers
- Why Superheroes Matter
- Wikipedia Entry: “Origin Stories”
- Avengers #1: Your Mystical Origin Story
- Avengers Story Part I: Your Super Powers
- Avengers #2: A Call to Save the Galaxy
- Avengers Story Part II: Your Mission-Goodbye Letter
- Avengers #3: Your Space Journey
- Avengers Story Part III: Your Visit to Tarnax
- Avengers Story Part IV: The Battle for Tarnantia
- Avengers #4: The End of the Battle of Tarnantia
- Video: “We Have to Become Greater Than What We Suffer, Become…Hope”
Assignment: Hero Story
- Begin writing the first draft of your Hero Story
- The draft is due on May 29 Friday
Part of the Journey Is the End
- Video: “What is it to be a hero?”
- This video captures perfectly why we need stories of heroes, to encourage us to be heroic ourselves, to choose to do good whenever and however we can
- “It’s the choices that make us who we are. And we can always choose to do what’s right” (Peter Parker, a.k.a. Spider-Man)
- Avengers #5: Your Story’s True Beginning
- Your Future Story: A Letter to Tomorrow
- Choose to Do Good
- Live a Narrative Life
The Big Fish Feast
- Big Fish Film Version
- Directed byTim Burton
Narrative Inquiry as Art Form