The Phantom Tollbooth Lesson Plan

Travel Article

Kind of Activity:

Individual Writing

Objective:

To write an essay on a transformative travel experience

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.6.1; CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.6.2;

Structure:

Philosopher Alain de Botton wrote in his book The Art of Travel:

“It is not necessarily at home that we best encounter our true selves. The furniture insists that we cannot change because it does not; the domestic setting keeps us tethered to the person we are in ordinary life, who may not be who we essentially are...Journeys are the midwives of thought."

Beyond simply giving advice or chronicling adventures, many travel journalists write about their journeys as...