The Hero with a Thousand Faces | Activities :&: Classroom Projects

Fun Classroom Activities

The 20 enjoyable, interactive classroom activities that are included will help your students understand the text in amusing ways. Fun Classroom Activities include group projects, games, critical thinking activities, brainstorming sessions, writing poems, drawing or sketching, and more that will allow your students to interact with each other, be creative, and ultimately grasp key concepts from the text by "doing" rather than simply studying.

1. Writing Your Own Hero's Tale

Have students write their own hero's tale about themselves. How has their lives followed the path of the Hero as described in Campbell's book?

2. A Favorite Myth

Have students share with the class their own favorite myths, what the myth means to them and where they first heard the myth.

3. The Play is the Thing...

Have students form groups and act out a particular myth mentioned in this book. The audience who watches...
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