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.
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 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
- Write It Right: A Handbook for Student Writers Second Edition
- Two Blank Journals
- The Hero's Journey Teacher Edition Second Edition (optional but recommended; NOT included in the course package)
Link to the digital version of Pygmalion
Product Details
- Publisher: Oak Meadow Inc.
- Version date: 2023
- Pages: 208
- Binding: Spiral bound
- Product dimensions: 8.5 x 11 inches
- Item weight: 1.50 lbs
