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UNIT 3:
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The TRANSITION FROM INNOCENCE TO EXPERIENCE — DATES: April 13, 2015—April 30, 2015 (14 Days)
— GENRE(S): Drama — CURRICULAR OBJECTIVES: Personal Response to Text: Script — TEXTS: Stardust (2007), variety of radio plays |
MAJOR ASSESSMENTS (See Associated CharT FOR BLOCK D)
JOseph Campbell & The Hero's QUest
The Hero’s Journey is a pattern of narrative identified by the American scholar Joseph Campbell that appears in drama, storytelling, myth, religious ritual, and psychological development. It describes the typical adventure of the archetype known as The Hero, the person who goes out and achieves great deeds on behalf of the group, tribe, or civilization.
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Stardust (2007)
The passage from this world to the fantasy kingdom of Stormhold is through a breach in a wall beside an English village. In the 1800s, a boy becomes a man when he ventures through the breach in pursuit of a fallen star, to prove his love for the village beauty. The star is no lump of rock, it's a maiden, Yvaine. Tristan, the youth, is not the only one looking for her: three witches, led by Lamia, want her heart to make them young; and, the sons of the dead king of Stormhold want her because she holds a ruby that will give one of them title to the throne. Assisting Tristan are his mother, the victim of a spell, and a transvestite pirate of the skies. Will Tristan win his true love?
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Radio Plays
The radio play is a dramatized, purely acoustic performance, broadcast on radio or published on audio media, such as tape or CD. With no visual component, radio drama depends on dialogue, music and sound effects to help the listener imagine the characters and story: “It is auditory in the physical dimension but equally powerful as a visual force in the psychological dimension.”
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