Course Overview
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, and literary technique, 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.
Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw is included with this coursebook.
Course Length: Full year
Suggested Grade Level(s): 9, 10
View samples of our high school curriculum here.
Additional Materials Required
The following materials are used in this course and are included in the course package:
- The House of the Scorpion, by Nancy Farmer
- Kidnapped, by Robert Louis Stevenson
- The Diary of a Young Girl, by Anne Frank
- Into the Wild, by Jon Krakauer
- 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
- Write It Right: A Handbook for Student Writers (Oak Meadow Books)
- Two blank journals (one for each semester)
- The Hero's Journey Teacher Edition (optional, but recommended; NOT included in the course package)
Product Details
- Publisher: Oak Meadow, Inc.
- Version date: July 2022
- Pages: 224
- Binding: Spiral bound
- Product dimensions: 8.5 x 11 inches
- Weight: 1.2 lbs
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