Archetypes in Life, Literature, and Myth
Supplement Advanced Placement and honors curriculum by exploring distinctions among signs, symbols, and archetypes. Students analyze archetypal patterns in the oral tradition, literature, and real life experiences. Lessons emphasize the significance of circles and cycles, the mother goddess, the monomyth, flight, the sacred marriage, the trickster, and the scapegoat.
About the Series:
English & Language Arts curriculum units contain complete lesson plans with preliminary and follow-up work, teacher notes with background and rationale, ready-to-use worksheets, and suggested answers for student questions. These materials encourage the development of thinking , reading, speaking, research, and writing skills as well as critical thinking skills such as analysis, synthesis, and evaluation.
Price: $19.95
Student Activities
Students study the theories of Carl Jung. They analyze archetypes in Native American legends and in fairy tales, as well as in sacred writings. Students discuss poems and short stories and apply concepts to major works of literature. They conduct and report on research. They apply archetypal patterns to life today.
Supplementary materials include topics for timed writings and suggested culminating projects.
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