Comparing the Comprehensive and Basic
We offer two teaching guides for the hero’s journey: a comprehensive guide and a basic guide. The comprehensive guide, The Hero’s Journey: The Path of Transformation, contains up to seven weeks of lessons and more than 100 pages of resource material for teachers. The basic guide, The Hero’s Journey: Teaching the Basics, is an edited version of the comprehensive guide. This chart below will help you compare which of the two guides will suit your needs. Additional units from the comprehensive guide are available as supplements to the basic guide.
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Chapter or Activity
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Comprehensive
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Basic
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Myth to Live By: The Power of Perspective
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X
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X
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We Live in Story
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X
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X
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- The Journey as a Personal Narrative
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X
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X
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- Teaching the Journey: A Four-Step Process
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X
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X
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Designing Lesson Plans as Heros Journeys
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X
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X
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Ritual and Rite of Passage
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Full
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Edited
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Campbells Monomyth
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Full
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Edited
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- Basic Overview of the Monomyth
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X
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X
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- 15-page discussion of the monomyth and its stages
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X
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- The Wisdom of Polarity: Polarity Theme in the Monomyth
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X
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Path of Transformation: Universal model of the Heros Journey
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X
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X
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Gawain and the Green Knight
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X
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X
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Legend of the Buddha: A Spiritual Heros Journey
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X
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Star Wars IV: Heros Journey film unit
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X
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X
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The Call Refused: Evoking the Shadow Journey
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X
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- Engaging the Shadow: The psychology of the Call Refused
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X
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- Groundhog Day: Call Refused film activity
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X
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- Minos and the Minotaur: Refusing Call to Public Trust
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X
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Appendix: Graphic Activities
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5 activities
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2 activities
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- Logging the Journey
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X
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X
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- Character Transformation Chart
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X
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X
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- Six-Panel Story Board
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X
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- Open Head activity
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X
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- Exploring the Journey through Foil Characters
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X
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References
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X
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X
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