Chart a Character’s Journey

Although this chart was designed for use with our Hero’s Journey materials, it can be a valuable supplement to any curriculum. The chart, which is FREE, will help your students experience literature on two levels. At an academic level, it helps them explore a story’s narrative elements: characterization, motivation, conflict and plot. At a deeper level, it can help students find relevance and personal meaning in a story. It does this by framing the character’s experience in the context of change or transformation, which is also at the heart of the Hero’s Journey experience.

This chart will help students engage with a character’s experience. They will see connections between a character’s experience and their own experience. By exploring a character’s challenges and how he or she responds to those challenges–or could have responded to those challenges–students can consider and explore new ways of interpreting and responding to challenges in their own lives.

This eight-page download includes complete instructions, diagrams, samples and student worksheets. It will demonstrate the depth and quality of our publications.

If you find this chart valuable in your teaching, you might be interested in visiting our Hero’s Journey Shop for other materials we offer for studying literature and film. The Hero’s Journey gives students a powerful cognitive schema, a conceptual framework that helps them understand and remember the literature they read and the films they say.

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