The Hero’s Journey: The Path of Transformation

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Thoroughly revised and expanded, The Hero’s Journey: The Path of Transformation is a comprehensive, 218-page guide to understanding and teaching the Hero’s Journey. The guide balances practical classroom lessons with in-depth articles on the journey archetype to give you the background you need to teach the journey at any level. The guide features discussions of both Campbell’s monomyth and a psychologically-based model of the journey. Also included are lesson plans, student materials, graphic aids, and suggestions for discussion and writing. (See the slide show for sample pages and the tabs below for complete information and contents.)

TWO BONUS GUIDES: When you order, you also receive two bonus guides: a 14-page, five-day lesson for introducing the basic journey and our 66-page The Hero’s Journey: Five Project Supplement, giving you a nearly 300 pages of lessons, projects and activities for teaching the Hero’s Journey.

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Thoroughly revised and expanded, this third edition of the award-winning teacher’s guide The Hero’s Journey: A Guide to Literature and Life features lessons, materials and film projects for from one to seven weeks. It also includes new chapters on Joseph Campbell’s monomyth, the psychology of both the Hero’s Journey and the Call Refused, polarity in the Hero’s Journey, and the journey as a personal narrative. The first two editions of this popular guide are being used by schools and counselors in 42 states and 17 countries.

While the material can be adapted to any timetable, the guide presents the journey in a sequence that fosters both learning and growth. It begins by taking you and your students through the concept of transformation and the Rite of Passage, which Campbell called the “nuclear unit” of the monomyth. Then it introduces the Hero’s Journey, its stages and its internal dynamics. Finally, it concludes with The Call Refused and the dangers of rejecting life’s calls to growth and change. It does all this with an engaging blend of literature, film, myth, discussion, writing and graphic activities, and personal reflection.

Other than its flexibility, the guide’s greatest strength is that it encourages students to go beyond seeing the journey as just a mythic archetype or as a schema to study literature and film. It encourages them see the relevance of the journey in their own lives and to use the journey and literature to help navigate their personal challenges and points-of-passage.

By weaving together practical classroom lessons, in-depth articles on various aspects of the Hero’s Journey and the journey’s engaging personal relevance, The Hero’s Journey: The Path of Transformation gives you and your students everything you need to study and use this universal archetype.

IMPORTANT NOTE: With this guide, you DO NOT need any of our supplements. The Call Refused, Campbell’s Monomyth and The Legend of the Buddha are already included in this guide.

(See the “Additional Information” tab for an annotated table of contents.)

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Introduction
Three articles that introduce the philosophy and approach to teaching the Hero’s Journey: “A Myth to Live By: The Soul’s High Adventure,” “We Live in Story: The Hero’s Journey as a Personal Narrative” and “Hero’s Journey Approach to Lesson Planning.”

1. Teaching Transformation: “Ritual and the Rite of Passage”
Lesson Plan and Teacher Resource. Introduces the concept of transformation, the heart of both Campbell’s monomyth and our eight-stage model of the journey. The chapter includes background information for teachers, a student text called “Negotiating Life’s Transitions: Ritual and the Rite of Passage,” a film activity and a group rite-of-passage project.

2. “The Monomyth: Joseph Campbell’s Hero’s Journey”
This resource material gives teachers an in-depth look at Campbell’s 17-stage model of the Hero’s Journey. Campbell’s stages are grouped into more manageable units and thoroughly explored both metaphorically and psychologically. The chapter includes two charts: a one-page chart summarizing the monomyth and a three-page chart detailing each stage. While not a teaching unit, this chapter provides everything you need if you want to teach the monomyth.

3. “The Hero’s Journey: The Path of Transformation”
This teacher resource presents our eight-stage, psychologically-based model of the hero’s journey. Our analysis will give you the in-depth understanding of the journey you need to teach it with authority and depth. The eight-stage model can be applied to all literature and film, and it will help students find real-life relevance in the stories they study and help them better understand the journeys they face in their own lives. The chapter features a detailed examination of the dynamics of each stage and how it relates to literature and life. Included is a three-page chart describing each stage with its challenges, dangers and benefits.

4. Lesson Plan: “Teaching the Hero’s Journey”
The guided core unit. Using our eight-stage psychological model, it takes you step-by-step through introducing and exploring the Hero’s Journey. The chapter includes a detailed lesson plan and suggested approach. It features the student text “The Hero’s Journey: Life’s Great Adventure,” the “What Makes a Hero” activity, and charts to help students understand and use the journey. When you finish this chapter, your students will not only have learned the Hero’s Journey pattern, but a learning schema for studying literature in general.

5. Lesson Plan: “Gawain and the Green Knight”
Expands on the basic understanding developed in Chapter Four by mentoring them from the theory of the hero’s journey to applying its stages and dynamics to literature. The legend illustrates both Campbell’s monomyth and the psychological hero’s journey, and includes background information, a lesson plan, a student text written to focus on Gawain’s journey, and suggestions for writing, discussion and reflection.

6. Lesson Plan: “The Legend of the Buddha: A Spiritual Hero’s Journey”
Further expands students’ understanding by having them explore a spiritual hero’s journey. Along with a lesson plan and the student text, this chapter includes background information of the Buddha, Buddhism and how Buddhist philosophy relates to the Hero’s Journey.

7. Lesson Plan: “Star Wars IV: Hero’s Journey Film Project”
An engaging look at the Hero’s Journey in a classic film that will deepen students’ understanding of the hero’s journey in this classic film. The activity features a thorough analysis of the film as a hero’s journey along with lesson plans, suggested approach, ideas for teaching discussion and graphic activities. (Note: You may use the approach presented here with another Hero’s Journey film, if you prefer.)

8. Lesson Plan: “The Call Refused: Evoking the Shadow Journey”
Explores the dangers of avoiding or rejecting the experiences we need to grow and adjust to changes in our world and in ourselves. It contains three sections: an introduction to the Call Refused, a film unit illustrating the Call Refused and a Greek myth (“Minos and the Minotaur”) exploring the refusal of the call to public trust. Also included are an extensive background section on the psychology of the Call Refused, lesson plans, student texts and a personal reflection activity.

Appendix
One of the best ways to teach the Hero’s Journey is to explore stories graphically. The Appendix contains five graphic activities to help students explore transformation, the hero’s journey and the journey in literature and life.

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