The Journey

Area of StudyRubric deconstruction

Common aspects

Students:• Explore the ways in which texts depict

journeys• Examine the underlying assumptions• Consider the power of the journey to

challenge their thinking• Reflect on the way journeys broaden their

understanding of the world and themselves

Focus: Physical journeys

• Involve different types of obstacles• Involve movement to new places• Provide opportunities for travellors to extend

themselves Physically Intelectually Emotionally, as they

• Respond to challenges and• Learn more about themselves and the world around

them

Focus: Imaginative journeys

• Take us into worlds of Imagination Speculation Inspiration

• Intellectual discovery• Pure imagination

Focus: Inner journeys

• Journeys of the mind and spirit• Involve the exploration of the self• Individuals review their growth and development in

the light of experiences which: Challenge and Inspire them

• Provide new insights

Defining the Journey

Quotable Quotes

Laurens van der Post

• A voyage to a destination, wherever that may be, is also a voyage inside oneself; even as a cyclone carries along with it the centre in which it must ultimately come to rest.

• It is always like that with journeys. One is as sad at the end as at the beginning; the reward lies in between.

Proverb

• If you want to know a man, make a solitary journey with him.

Lawrence Durrell, from Bitter Lemons

• Journeys, like artists, are born not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will – whatever we may think. They flower spontaneously out of the demands of our natures – and the best of them lead not only outwards in space, but inwards as well.

African Proverb

• He who travels much doubts many things

George Moore

• A man travels the world over in search of what he needs, and returns home to find it.