About our Digital Curriculum
This product grants you a 4-year long subscription to a digital ebook version of our printed The Hero's Journey: Literature and Composition Course Package. The digital curriculum is for use on electronic devices and cannot be printed or shared.
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What's Included
The following materials are included in this digital course package:
- The Hero's Journey: Literature and Composition Coursebook, Second Edition - Digital
- Write It Right: A Handbook for Student Writers, Second Edition - Digital
Additional Materials Recommended
The following materials are needed to complete this course and are only available in print (unless othrwise noted):
- The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer
- Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson
- The Raybearer by Jordan Ifueko
- Where We Come From By Oscar Cásares
- Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
- House of Light by Mary Oliver
- A Pocket Style Manual by Diana Hacker and Nancy Sommers
- Two Blank Journals
- The Hero's Journey: Literature and Composition Teacher Edition, Second Edition - Digital (optional, but recommended)
Course Overview:
Course Length: Full year
Suggested Grade Level(s): 9 10
View samples of our high school curriculum here.
The course The Hero's Journey: Literature & Composition explores the question "What does it mean to be a hero?" It looks at literature featuring ordinary people who find themselves in circumstances that require extraordinary acts and examines these acts in relation to the archetypal hero's journey.
Lessons provide historical background on the setting and author while offering discussion points students can use to explore literary topics with family and peers. The course includes the use of a main lesson book as a reader's journal to keep track of key passages new vocabulary observations about characters settings literary techniques etc.
Students develop a wide range of composition skills throughout the course by exploring techniques and formats such as comparative essays first-person writing figurative language summarizing poetry persuasive writing inferential reading and contextual clues and observational writing.
