Daily Lessons for Teaching King, Warrior, Magician, Lover: Rediscovering the Archetypes of the Mature Masculine

Daily Lessons

This section contains 30 daily lessons. Each one has a specific objective and offers at least three (often more) ways to teach that objective. Lessons include classroom discussions, group and partner activities, in-class handouts, individual writing assignments, at least one homework assignment, class participation exercises and other ways to teach students about the text in a classroom setting. Use some or all of the suggestions provided to work with your students in the classroom and help them understand the text.

Lesson 1

Objective: Initiation In the first chapter of the book, the authors discuss the age-old ritual process of a young man's initiation into manhood. This lesson will discuss the symbolic nature of these rituals and the claim of their necessity to a young man's path to full development.

1) 1) Data Collection - Ask the class to list the examples given in the book of "rites of passage"...
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