After having a lesson and a class discussion where the students formally learn about the Epic Fantasy genre and its classic character archetypes, I would have the students break into groups of three and choose a film they have all seen which portrays some of these mythic archetypes. Each group member would choose a different character from the film as an example of an archetype, and together, they would write a modern newspaper-style "Personals Ad" in the voice of that character, careful to not mention any specific character names. (I would give the students more than one class period to accomplish this.)
The students would then read their Personals Ads in front of the class, and the rest of the class would have to guess which archetype had written each ad, and explain their rationale for that conclusion. Hopefully, this would be fun and entertaining, and lead to lively class discussion of the motives and expectations behind each of these archetypes.
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