Blog Post #10: A Blog on Your Blog

We have now come to the end of our blogging journey. I do hope you had an interesting and engaging time using the technology to apply concepts learned in class to your own reading.

For our last blog task, you are going to assume the role of a character in a novel you have read for class this semester. Imagine he/she has been surfing the net, and happened upon your blog and read your entries.

CONSIDER: 

• What would he/she have to contribute to the discussion surrounding the journey and its stages? 
• What would he/she write as a response?
• What tone (attitude of the speaker) and diction would your character use?   

Your character can respond to your blog in general about the journey archetype or the character can respond to a specific blog entry. If you decide to do the latter, be sure to identify the blog entry addressed in your opening sentence.

Remember, your character has NOT been studying the archetypal journey and characters found in literature, like you have this semester.  Therefore, he/she would be reacting to your insights about this approach to stories, and he/she would be making text to self or text to world connections. 

Blog Post #9: The Mentor

In the movie Good Will Hunting, Matt Damon plays a Harvard grad and math genius who has lost his way.  Robin Williams plays his psychologist and  mentor in the film.  Check it out!  It's a great movie from the late  90's. 

A young Miep Gies

"Behind every success story is either a coach, parent, teacher, friend, or some other person who is the hero's mentor" (Heroes). This week, consider the mentors you have encountered as you have read your novels this year. As we saw in Freedom Writers, there can be many mentors in a story, and they don't always have to be someone who is alive or someone whom the protagonist has met. Anne Frank and Miep Gies (the woman who hid Anne) were mentors for the Erin Gruwell's students. 

Discuss one or two significant mentors from your novels.  You should 

•  compare and/or explain the reasons they are mentors for your protagonist-heroes. 
• describe the ways in which they provide support, new knowledge, or inspiration for your characters. 
• select the mentors you find particularly memorable and justify your choice.   

For one of your ideas, provide a QUOTATION (Note:  this is the last blog that will use a quotation) as support.  

Obi-Wan Kenobi is an archetypal mentor as seen in the Star Wars films.  He guides, teaches, and protects Luke Skywalker.   He is one of only four characters to appear in all six of the original movies.