This not a collection of myths but a study of mythology itself, and a literature anthology as well. It offers a thoughtful explication of the archetypal quest tale, in ways that will make students aware of its universal value in embodying human responses to the universe. Called the "monomyth," the hero tale subsumes within it virtually all the literary themes we know, and this popular text forges connections between myth and literature that any student can readily grasp.  Those who are familiar with the first edition of Introduction to Myth will note considerable changes in the text. Three new stories and several new poems have been added. In addition, the introductory chapter has been thoroughly revised and expanded to include more information about what myths are, including theories about their origins, and also about the role of the female in mythology.

Introduction to myth (Hayden series in literature)

Stillman, Peter

Hayden Book Co.

A textbook designed to help students develop individual writing skills suitable for a variety of purposes.

Writing Your Way

Teen & Young Adult

Education & Reference

Boynton/Cook Pub

This not a collection of myths but a study of mythology itself, and a literature anthology as well. It offers a thoughtful explication of the archetypal quest tale, in ways that will make students aware of its universal value in embodying human responses to the universe. Called the "monomyth," the hero tale subsumes within it virtually all the literary themes we know, and this popular text forges connections between myth and literature that any student can readily grasp. Those who are familiar with the first edition of Introduction to Myth will note considerable changes in the text. Three new stories and several new poems have been added. In addition, the introductory chapter has been thoroughly revised and expanded to include more information about what myths are, including theories about their origins, and also about the role of the female in mythology.

Introduction to Myth

Literature & Fiction

Heinemann

As a student, Peter Stillman felt discouraged and alienated from the act of writing. As a teacher, he discovered his own students experiencing the same feelings. Frustrated by the lack of a text that would help students write about their world in a way that encouraged and rewarded them, he wrote Writing Your Way. Stillman believes that there isn't a student who, with the right encouragement, can't write and furthermore who, sooner or later, doesn't love doing it. By inviting students to write from their experiences and intuitions, and making the most of their willingness to put something of themselves on paper, Writing Your Way makes better, even eager, writers out of them all. Based on the idea that students have something to say and have within them the ability to write, this text helps students find their own voices. Stillman's approach is emphatically process oriented, stressing prewriting, revision, and peer group writing. Since learning to write requires continual practice, there are opportunities in each of the twenty-six chapters to write and discover the process that suits the individual best. Writing becomes an everyday act that can be gratifying in both personal and academic domains. The self-contained chapters are meaningful and helpful when read in any order; they can be assigned and used freely. Students and teachers can return to chapters that worked well, and experiment with new chapters out of order without worrying about missing a critical step. Writing Your Way was written for any secondary student, but is recommended especially for ninth and tenth graders.

Reference

Words, Language & Grammar

Planting by the Moon provides a rollicking yet poignant portrait of rural hardscrabble America. Stillman's perspective on life in a backwater hamlet, as caught in essays and occasional poems, is refreshingly different from other books on rural life. He is the things he writes of-logger, firefighter, horseman, cabin dweller, loiterer at the general store. These writings bring us past romanticized depictions of rural village life to provide a close up view of the ongoing struggle for survival in such a place, as well as of the exquisite beauty of Stillman's chosen world. Readers will meet Rooney, who kept a car in the kitchen, Wanda, who painted her rival's name on a pig, Everett, who had fits tailored to the moment, Jimmy, who logged by moonlight, Earl, whose wife ran off in the family car "after he'd just done the valves and rings," and many more of Gilead's memorable inhabitants. Together these pieces, most from letters and journals, are the very kind of "place" literature people of all ages should not only be reading but creating for themselves.

Planting by the Moon: On Life in a Mountain Hamlet

United States

Provides instructions on creative writing for teenagers.

Write Away!: A Friendly Guide for Teenage Writers

Here is a book that speaks to everyone interested in creative writing experiences that will draw a family together for the moment and across generations. Families should be writing-recollections, whims, stories of love and pain and laughter, the troubling, sad, or silly things that together make your family richly different from all the rest. Family stuff. Important stuff. In this very practical book, Stillman details why and how to record words that go straight to the heart-the simple, vital words that will speak to those you care most about and to their descendants many years from now. 
 "The real family treasures," writes Stillman, "are those made of words, not dusty artifacts." And he proves it, with example after example of what happens when families write together, along with scores of ideas for activities that will generate your own keepsake writing. The first edition of Families Writing sold widely, and many copies were picked up by teachers who have successfully used the Families Writing approach in the classroom. In this second edition, therefore, Stillman has added an entirely new chapter of suggestions for teachers.

Families Writing

Writer's Digest Books

Discusses the hows and whys of recording family history, from journals and memory books to photo albums and poetry

In this very practical book, Stillman details why and how to record words that go straight to the heartthe simple, vital words that will speak to those you care most about and to their descendants many years from now.

Families Writing: 2nd Edition

Writing, Research & Publishing Guides

Answers to a child's questions about death

Children's Books

Guideline Publications

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Introduction to myth (Hayden series in literature)

Writing Your Way

Introduction to Myth

Writing Your Way

Planting by the Moon: On Life in a Mountain Hamlet

Write Away!: A Friendly Guide for Teenage Writers

Families Writing

Families Writing

Families Writing: 2nd Edition

Answers to a child's questions about death