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Making Connections Book 7: Journeys

Creative ideas and activities for exploring the links beyond a text

Structured around the rich and thought-provoking theme, journeys, this book begins with a particular text before it explores possible subthemes and texts for comparison. Information sheets draw together the rich range of creative, insightful ideas presented and worksheets help students to consolidate the information and practise their connection-making skills.

Ages: 12-15 | Pages: 64 | Code: 51000 | ISBN: 9781776553525

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Yvette Krohn

Yvette Krohn has taught English for the past 18 years, first in South Africa and later in New Zealand, where her main role has been teaching high-level thinking courses, including gifted and talented education, extension and scholarship classes. She has been a faculty head of languages and an assistant principal, as well as a lecturer of communications and learning styles at Lincoln University. Passionate about thinking skills, Yvette has a particular interest in incorporating philosophy, psychology and social theory into the English curriculum, primarily through the medium of film.

Contents

Introduction4
How do students make connections?4
How is this book structured?4
Orientation to the unit5
The literal (physical) journey9
Types of physical journeys9
What do the philosophers say about physical journeys?12
Exploring further with other texts16
Looking to the real world: examples of epic physical journeys20
The figurative journey24
Types of figurative journeys24
What do the scholars say about figurative journeys?24
Exploring further with other texts30
Looking to the real world: real-life spiritual journeys33
Improbable and inevitable journeys36
What do scientists say about the improbable journey through time?38
What do philosophers say about the inevitable journey to death?43
Exploring further with other texts48
Looking to the real world: real-life time travel stories50
The path and purpose of a journey54
What do the scholars say about the hero's journey?54
Exploring further with other texts59
Looking to the real world: finding purpose through a journey63

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