Hippie Boy Teaching Guide: Transforming Lives Through Personal Storytelling

Author Ingrid Ricks discovered the immense healing power and validation that comes from personal storytelling when she wrote her coming-of-age memoir, Hippie Boy. But it wasn't until she and high school English teacher Marjie Bowker collaborated on a month-long narrative writing unit that they realized personal storytelling could be used to transform the lives of students.

The Hippie Boy Teaching Guide is a comprehensive narrative writing/reading guide that combines the narrative writing techniques in Hippie Boy with eleven narrative writing lesson plans to help students identify and write a scene from their own lives. Use it as a five-week narrative writing unit in the classroom or as an independent guide for an outside reading or writing credit.

• Eleven narrative writing lesson plans (tied to the Common Core State Standards)
• Graphic organizers for narrative elements and scene construction
• Techniques to help students identify their stories
• Vocabulary & discussion questions
• Writing prompts
• Dramatic sketches
• Samples of student writing