1. The Journey Area of Study Rubric deconstruction

2. 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

3. 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

4. Focus: Imaginative journeys • Take us into worlds of • Imagination • Speculation • Inspiration • Intellectual discovery • Pure imagination

5. 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

6. Defining the Journey Quotable Quotes

7. 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.

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

9. 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.

10. African Proverb • He who travels much doubts many things

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