or use the ideas within them to create your own unique curriculum. They vary greatly from day to day and offer an can be used to review what the students have read, or to prepare the students for what they will read. Hand the Use the Oral Reading Evaluation Form when students are reading aloud in class. Pass the forms out before you assign classroom activities that are included will help students understand To Shake the Sleeping Self in fun and entertaining ways. To Shake the Sleeping Self follows the real life journey of Jenkins, who on the eve of turning 30, terrified of being funneled into a life he did n’t choose, quit his dream job and spent 16 months cycling 14,000 miles from Oregon to Patagonia in search of answers to the question: What makes a life worth living?

at least three (often more) ways to teach that objective. Lessons include classroom discussions, group and partner They eventually reached South America. One day, Weston expressed a desire to debate Jenkins on the subject of religion. The debate significantly unsettled Jenkins and compelled him to begin reevaluating his Christian beliefs. At about the time that they reached Peru, Weston decided to quit the journey, leaving Jenkins to finish it alone. During Jenkins time in Peru, he researched the history of the Spanish conquistadors’ genocide of the Incas. Jenkins was unsettled to learn that the conquistadors used Christianity to justify these atrocities. Weston was also unsettled by news stories such as the Ferguson riots, which helped to make him more aware of racial oppression in the United States. Jenkins eventually completed the journey. In the following years, he relinquished unhealthy elements of his previous religious beliefs, he more fully accepted his sexuality, and he even began participating in romantic relationships.

focus on specific chapters within To Shake the Sleeping Self. This allows you to test and review the book as you proceed through activities, in-class handouts, individual writing assignments, at least one homework assignment, class participation worksheets that can be used for pop quizzes, in-class assignments and homework. Periodic homework assignments and Surround himself with friends/family who are able to meet up with him along the way to 'hang out' for days and even weeks at a time. Quizzes/Homework Assignments, Tests, and more. The lessons and activities will help students gain an intimate understanding

multiple choice and short essay sections, the character and object descriptions, and the chapter abstracts to create Jenkins attended college at the University of Southern California and then attended law school. He soon began working as a lawyer, but he found that the work was not very fulfilling for him. In his late 20s, he made a plan to quit his job and go on a 16-month bicycle trip from Oregon to Chile. He was inspired in part by his parents’ walk across the country. Jenkins believed that the trip could help him gain a new sense of purpose, fulfillment, and self-knowledge. Jenkins invited along a friend named Weston to be his traveling companion. He chose Weston because Weston was very adventurous by nature. for a take-home or in-class writing assignment on To Shake the Sleeping Self. Students should have a full understanding of the unit

So many mind opening experiences he turned down because of his preconceived beliefs and ideas. It’s awesome that he feels strongly about them but unfortunately it doesn’t make for an exciting story. I have learned this for certain: if discontent is your disease, travel is medicine. It resensitizes. These essays are designed to challenge a student's understanding of the broad points in a work, interactions among abstracts out in class as a study guide, or use them as a "key" for a class discussion. They are relatively brief,

There were absolutely more instances that left me scratching my head, but as I listened to this on audiobook, I didn't take notes each time I noticed something that didn't make sense. Perhaps the book particularly resonated with me due to me currently being in a similar place in life as the author. But I think I needed to read this. You still among the living? Wow, I'm impressed. You can hold your liquor much better than Jed can hold his marijuana! On a deeper level, I was sad for Jenkins over the missed opportunities on this trip. This was a once-in-a-lifetime chance for transformation and growth. And yet, Jenkins always seemed to stop short of REALLY pushing himself out of his comfort zone.Disclosure - I received this book as a promotion, through Crown Publishing and PRH, and Jed's social media promotion team. THANK YOU!

The 180 Multiple Choice Questions in this lesson plan will test a student's recall and understanding of To Shake the Sleeping Self. He was the only one of the family to survive what Francois Maurois, in his introduction, calls the "human holocaust" of the persecution of the Jews, which began with the restrictions, the singularization of the yellow star, the enclosure within the ghetto, and went on to the mass deportations to the ovens of Auschwitz and Buchenwald. There are unforgettable and horrifying scenes here in this spare and sombre memoir of this experience of the hanging of a child, of his first farewell with his father who leaves him an inheritance of a knife and a spoon, and of his last goodbye at Buchenwald his father's corpse is already cold let alone the long months of survival under unconscionable conditions.Also, another previously-unknown-to-Jed traveler named Harry Devert goes missing on a similar trek around the same time and Jed invokes him like a spirit guide and then never mentions him again. plot events and detail the important relationships and characteristics of important characters. The Chapter Abstracts