The Hero’s Journey: Teaching the Basics

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This 128-page guide is the basic version of our comprehensive guide The Hero’s Journey: The Path of Transformation. Teaching the Basics balances practical classroom lessons with the in-depth background material you need to teach the journey at virtually any level. The guide features lesson plans and materials for up to five weeks, but it can be adapted easily to your own schedule. Included are reproducible student texts and worksheets, graphic aids, and suggestions for discussion and writing.
 
BONUS GUIDE: Order The Hero's Journey: Teaching the Basics and receive our 40-page three project supplement, which contains lessons on the Greek myth of Demeter and Persephone, Hero's Journey Film Project and Hero's Journey Group Project.
 
NOTE: This guide includes the material you need to teach the basic structure of the Hero's Journey. Our comprehensive guide, The Hero’s Journey: The Path of Transformation, also includes units on “Campbell's Monomyth,” “The Legend of Buddha” and “The Call Refused.” These units can be purchased separately, if desired.

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The Hero’s Journey: Teaching the Basics takes you through the four stages of teaching the basic hero’s journey pattern to your students.

1. Activating students’ existing narrative (journey) schema

2. Introducing the three-stage process of transformation

3. Exploring the eight-stage model of the hero’s journey

4. Applying the journey pattern to literature, film and life

The guide briefly discusses Joseph Campbell’s monomyth, but focuses on a psychological model of the journey that is more adaptable to literature and film. The guide balances scholarly analysis of the journey and related themes with practical classroom lessons, activities and approaches. Once your students understand the journey and its dynamics, they will have a powerful framework for studying literature and film and for using literary themes to enrich their own lives.

We recommend that you supplement this guide with The Call Refused: Evoking the Shadow and The Legend of the Buddha to complete your study of the hero’s journey or that you purchase The Hero’s Journey: The Path of Transformation, our comprehensive guide, which contains both of these units and much more. (For a detailed comparison of the two guides, see this chart.).

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Contents

1. We Live in Story: The Journey as a Personal Narrative
Adolescence is a critical time in the development of self concept. Our students are exploring options and possibilities as they refine the personal narrative that will serve them in their adult lives. As teachers, we can use literature and the hero’s journey to help them in the process of self definition and discovery.

2. Teaching Transformation: Ritual and Rites of Passage
Campbell called the Rite of Passage the “nuclear unit” of the hero’s journey. Teaching the Rite of Passage gives students a foundation for studying the hero’s journey and a better understanding of the “points of passage” they will face in their own lives.

3. The Monomyth: Joseph Campbell’s Hero’s Journey
In the “monomyth,” mythologist and philosopher Joseph Campbell outlined the common narrative in hero myths. We briefly explore the two versions of the monomyth he presents in The Hero with a Thousand Faces, and present a chart detailing his 17-stage model.

4. The Hero’s Journey: The Path of Transformation
“The Path of Transformation,” is our eight-stage, psychologically-based model of the hero’s journey. This thorough exploration of the model will give you an in-depth understanding of the journey so that you can teach it with authority and depth. This is applicable to all literature and film, and it will help students see real-life relevance for the stories they study and better understand the journeys they face in their own lives.

5. Teaching the Hero’s Journey: Life’s Great Adventure
This is the core unit for teaching the hero’s journey. Using the eight-stage psychological model of the journey, this unit guides you through the process of teaching the hero’s journey and developing it as a learning schema for literature in general.

6. Gawain and the Green Knight
One of the great quest legends, “Gawain and the Green Knight” will move your students from the theory of the hero’s journey to applying its stages to literature. The legend illustrates both Campbell’s monomyth and the psychological hero’s journey.

7. Star Wars IV: A New Hope: The Journey in Film
Your students will deepen their understanding of the hero’s journey by applying it to the original Star Wars film. This chapter contains a thorough analysis of the film as a hero’s journey and ideas for teaching and discussion. (This approach can be used with any film.)

8. Appendix: Charts for analyzing the journey in literature and film.
The hero’s journey is about personal transformation, in literature and in life. These two charts can be used to analyze any story as a journey and to highlight the dynamics of each of the journey
process.

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