Western Traditions Honors Project
Successful completion of the honors course is dependent upon successful completion of this project. You are to read the text The Hero With a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell in conjunction with the novels we read, analyzing each novel according to how the concepts contained in Campbell’s book can be applied to the novels we read as a class.
Each essay should be two to three pages long typed, have an interesting title, and be free of most conventions errors. Most importantly, each essay must explain how the concepts covered in The Hero With a Thousand Faces can be applied to the book we’re reading or how the concepts helped you as a reader understand and interpret the text. You need to cite from both the novel we are reading and Campbell’s book at least twice in each essay. The essays are due “near” the due dates listed – there will be some flexibility there, but the essays need to be handed in reasonably close to the date to earn credit. The essays are worth 100 points each, and the reading itself is worth 50 points. To get credit for the reading, sign off on the box for “I Did the Reading” for each collection of chapters on this sheet and hand it in as your cover sheet with each essay.
We will discuss these concepts each time we have an honors seminar, and it is expected that you will help enrich the learning of all the other students in our course by bringing these concepts up in class discussions and seminars as well. What follows is the list of chapters and the dates that they and the corresponding essays are due. These are also the dates that we will have our early morning honors seminars. These will be held in my room, at 7:30, on the dates listed. These seminars are worth 50 points. If you do not attend, for whatever reason, you will not receive credit for the seminar. If you are late, the maximum number of points you can earn is 40. Come prepared for each seminar having done the required reading as well as having completed the essay. They are not lectures, but rather opportunities for you to share ideas and observations, as well as ask questions, both of me and each other. Bring whichever novel we’re reading as well as The Hero With a Thousand Faces.
Seminar dates:
-2/28
-3/27
-4/18
-5/16
Essay and reading assessment:
Part I:
Part II:
Note: There may be some follow-up questions for you on the class blog after each seminar, but these will be announced when appropriate, and will be worth 25 points per entry.
Thanks, that’s it, and I look forward to learning alongside you this semester.
-Mr. Baird
Successful completion of the honors course is dependent upon successful completion of this project. You are to read the text The Hero With a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell in conjunction with the novels we read, analyzing each novel according to how the concepts contained in Campbell’s book can be applied to the novels we read as a class.
Each essay should be two to three pages long typed, have an interesting title, and be free of most conventions errors. Most importantly, each essay must explain how the concepts covered in The Hero With a Thousand Faces can be applied to the book we’re reading or how the concepts helped you as a reader understand and interpret the text. You need to cite from both the novel we are reading and Campbell’s book at least twice in each essay. The essays are due “near” the due dates listed – there will be some flexibility there, but the essays need to be handed in reasonably close to the date to earn credit. The essays are worth 100 points each, and the reading itself is worth 50 points. To get credit for the reading, sign off on the box for “I Did the Reading” for each collection of chapters on this sheet and hand it in as your cover sheet with each essay.
We will discuss these concepts each time we have an honors seminar, and it is expected that you will help enrich the learning of all the other students in our course by bringing these concepts up in class discussions and seminars as well. What follows is the list of chapters and the dates that they and the corresponding essays are due. These are also the dates that we will have our early morning honors seminars. These will be held in my room, at 7:30, on the dates listed. These seminars are worth 50 points. If you do not attend, for whatever reason, you will not receive credit for the seminar. If you are late, the maximum number of points you can earn is 40. Come prepared for each seminar having done the required reading as well as having completed the essay. They are not lectures, but rather opportunities for you to share ideas and observations, as well as ask questions, both of me and each other. Bring whichever novel we’re reading as well as The Hero With a Thousand Faces.
Seminar dates:
-2/28
-3/27
-4/18
-5/16
Essay and reading assessment:
| Section: | Date Due: | I Did the Reading: | Essay Grade: |
| Prologue: | 2/7 | |
Part I:
| 1. Departure | 2/28 | | |
| 2. Initiation | 3/27 | | |
| 3. Return and 4. The Keys | 4/18 | |
Part II:
| 1. Emanations and 2. The Virgin Birth | 5/2 | | |
| 3. Transformations | 5/16 | | |
| 4. Dissolutions and 5. Epilogue | 5/30 | |
Note: There may be some follow-up questions for you on the class blog after each seminar, but these will be announced when appropriate, and will be worth 25 points per entry.
Thanks, that’s it, and I look forward to learning alongside you this semester.
-Mr. Baird
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