The Hero’s Journey: A Guide to Literature and Life provides a wealth background notes to enhance your instruction and deepen student understanding, as well as space for your own notes (scroll down for customization details).
The guide, which is spiral-bound to open flat on your desk or lectern, displays notes and student materials side by side. As you read or discuss the story in class, you can read background material directly from the teacher’s guide or you can highlight specific points that you want to share and discuss. In the example below, student materials on “The Legend of the Buddha” are displayed along with background notes, including:
- The history of the Bo tree (the tree under which Siddhartha reached enlightenment),
- Incidental information on Mara, the Hindu god of illusion and his daughters, Desire, Fulfillment and Regret (representing, symbolically, the future, the present and the past),
- A note on concepts which transcend words and how they can be experienced but not taught,
- A long discussion on “The Cosmic Tree” or “World Tree” archetype/motif and the various meanings it has had in mythology (i.e., a symbol of wholeness or insight), plus examples of cosmic trees from Hebrew, Norse and Egyptian mythology.
Sample from The Legend of the Buddha unit shows background notes and space for your own notes and ideas (details below).
Customize the Guide with Your Own Notes
As you can see in the example above, one of the most important design elements in the teacher’s guide is space for your personal notes. The example above shows open space below the student material and a half-page of space next to “The Cosmic Tree.” You can use this space in several ways, including:
- Before you teach a lesson, you can preview the material and make notes about how you want to cover it, compose questions you want to ask, make comparisons to other literature, and add material you want to include from your own curriculum that isn’t in the manual.
- As you cover the lesson, you can compile additional teaching notes and background material (such as good questions or points raised by students) on a separate paper. When you finish the lesson, you can organize your notes and add them directly to the teacher’s manual, where they will be ready for you the next time you teach the lesson.
- You can add reminders about other materials you want to give students and how that material fits in to the current lesson, the hero’s journey, or to your overall curriculum.
In short, the hero’s journey teacher’s guide makes it easy for you to present and discuss lessons in class and to customize lessons with your own notes and materials.
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The Hero’s Journey: A Guide to Literature and Life provides a wealth background notes to enhance your instruction and deepen student understanding, as well as space for your own notes (scroll down for customization details).
The guide, which is spiral-bound to open flat on your desk or lectern, displays notes and student materials side by side. As you read or discuss the story in class, you can read background material directly from the teacher’s guide or you can highlight specific points that you want to share and discuss. In the example below, student materials on “The Legend of the Buddha” are displayed along with background notes, including:
Sample from The Legend of the Buddha unit shows background notes and space for your own notes and ideas (details below).
Customize the Guide with Your Own Notes
As you can see in the example above, one of the most important design elements in the teacher’s guide is space for your personal notes. The example above shows open space below the student material and a half-page of space next to “The Cosmic Tree.” You can use this space in several ways, including:
In short, the hero’s journey teacher’s guide makes it easy for you to present and discuss lessons in class and to customize lessons with your own notes and materials.
Click here to Order the Teacher’s Guide