Please Help. A comic or graphic story is partly a work of visual art and partly a piece of creative writing. To complete this lesson’s assignment, you’ll need to bring both kinds of skills to the act of storytelling. You don’t have to be a great artist, though, or spend hours drawing and coloring small details. Instead, you can use simple, basic images to suggest what would happen in your story without providing a detailed illustration. (Remember that some of the slides in Holden’s story included single objects or faces.)

The most important requirement for this assignment is that your storyboard include all of the elements of the hero’s journey. Take some time to review those elements if you don’t remember them. Then, click each tab below and follow the directions to write some notes that you can use later to imagine your story and complete your storyboard.

A Hero
A Conflict
A Helper
A Change
A Homecoming
Young traveler journeying through magical desert lands.
Your hero can be young or old, male or female, human or some other species. In your notes, describe your hero, including your hero’s strengths and weaknesses. Also write down where your hero lives and what he or she does there.

Once you have written notes about each of the topics below, use them to complete the storyboard you printed out or downloaded on the previous page. (Remember, a storyboard is a plan for your comic or graphic story―not the story itself.)

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