Heroic Habits, Lip Dub Quest & Community Building (Session 1, Week 1)

Hello from the Journey Studio!

This is the first Journey Newsletter of the 2026–2027 school year. We started the year this week with many new learners joining us. We also began working on our Lip Dub Quest and Hero Boards.

Genre

This week in Genre, we spent time thinking about who we are as people and what heroic habits are.

After reflecting on our own heroic habits, we each came up with five people whose heroic habits we would like to model. Throughout the rest of the week, we researched the Monsters that can get in the way of our Hero’s Journey: distraction, victimhood, and resistance. We also spent time considering what our own greatest strengths are.

Quest

This week in Quest, we focused on building our community and began preparing our Lip Dub and Studio Contracts.

For our Lip Dub, we chose Spider-Man as our theme and even included a tribute to the late Dolly Parton. Once we had chosen our theme, we each picked the roles we will play in bringing our Lip Dub to life.

The Journey Store

Michal has added a Journey Store with lots of snacks, including Goldfish, Welch’s Fruit Gummies, and more!

To purchase snacks, we can use either our Falcon Bucks or real currency.

Thank you for reading this week’s Newsletter! I’ll have more to share with you in next week’s edition.

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