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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 […]

All of the student materials you need to teach the hero’s journey are in the teacher’s guide. Among the types of handouts ready for copying are stories, myths and legends; questions for discussion, logging the journey activities, self and peer evaluation rubrics and idea-generation activities. On the left in the sample below is the first […]

Classroom discussions are a valuable tool for learning and understanding. The Hero’s Journey: A Guide to Literature and Life incorporates a variety of discussion activities to help students thoroughly understand the journey pattern and its dynamics. For informal, supplementary discussions, questions are included in the background and lecture notes for the material you are covering […]

The Hero’s Journey: A Guide to Literature and Life contains ten chapters and twenty-six individual lessons. You can teach chapters and lessons as they are from the teacher’s guide, or you can adapt them to fit your individual needs and curriculum. For a detailed list of contents and projects, click here. Chapter Title and Description […]

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by Reg Harris (http://www.yourheroicjourney.com) Copyright © 2012 by Reg Harris. All rights reserved. This article may not be copied in any form, in part or in whole, without prior written permission. Contact Reg Harris. One of great the paradoxes of the hero’s journey is that often, before we can begin our journey into the world, […]

Part Two of “Rethinking the Monomyth” (Click here for Part One) Restructuring Campbell’s Hero’s Journey Model by Reg Harris Copyright © 2013 by Reg Harris. All rights reserved. Apart from properly cited quotes and short excerpts, no part of this article can be copied or used in any form without written permission. For permission, please […]

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Copyright © 2012 by Reg Harris. All rights reserved. Except for properly cited quotes and excerpts, this article may not be copied, in whole or in part, without written permission from the author. For permission to use, contact Reg Harris. We live in story By the time they enter school, children have developed a basic […]

I’ve posted a new article to the Hero’s Journey library on ways to illustrate the concept of expanding our understanding as the hero’s journey. While the article is aimed at teachers, it illustrates the importance of embracing challenges and framing meaning in ways that will enhance and develop our lives. The article is called “Illustrating […]