The Hero's Journey: A Guide to Literature and Life
by Reg Harris and Susan Thompson
$29.95 (plus shipping), 8.5×11.0, 188 pages, Spiral bound
The Hero's Journey: A Guide to Literature and Life is designed to help you teach and use the pattern of the Hero's Journey for studying literature, myth, film and personal growth. While it is designed for grades 9-12, the material can be adapted easily for students from 7th grade through college. It has also been used successfully in counseling and with at-risk individuals in a variety of settings. (For a closer look at the teacher's guide, take our in-depth tour.)
Both powerful and flexible, the guide contains lesson plans, handout masters, enrichment and presentation notes, questions for discussion, and ideas for assessment. You can use the curriculum as a stand-alone unit or incorporate individual lessons with your current curriculum. While the guide does recommend specific literature and film, you can easily substitute material you are currently studying.
The manual, which is spiral-bound to lie flat, is designed to be used right in class. Student materials are clearly displayed along side teaching notes, questions for discussion and background material related to the unit you are covering. The guide also includes space for you to personalize the lessons with your own notes. (For a closer look at the teacher's guide, take our in-depth tour.)
CONTENTS
- Ritual and Rite of Passage: Introduces the three stages of transformation by exploring rites of passage.
- The Hero's Journey: Introduces the basic hero's journey pattern using the original Star Wars film, A New Hope (1977), and includes a brief history into research on the hero's journey archetype.
- Gawain and the Green Knight: Illustrates the basic hero's journey pattern using this famous legend.
- Demeter and Persephone: Illustrates the journey pattern and introduces the importance of compromise.
- The Legend of the Buddha: Illustrates the spiritual hero's journey and introduces the theme of releasing the past to move into the future.
- Hero's Journey Film Project: Group project exploring the hero's journey in film.
- Write and Hero's Journey Short Story: Individual project into which student write a hero's journey story of their own using the basic journey model.
- The Call Refused: Explores what happens when we reject or ignore our calls to adventure using the film Groundhog Day and the myth of "Minos and the Minotaur."
- Hero's Journey Myth Group Presentation: Group project in which students research and present a non-Greek hero's myth.
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My Journey: Mandala and Autobiographical essay: Individual project in which students create a personal mandala (using activities presented in the guide) and write a Personal Journey (autobiographical) essay.
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