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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The Hero's Journey: Teaching the Basics
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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