This updated teacher's guide to is crammed with teaching ideas and discussion starters for your high school fiction writers and their discussion groups. Students will study and discuss empathetic protagonists, meaningful descriptions, voice, point of view, plot, the hero's journey, scene structure, getting published, and much, much more. Included in is the answer key for questions in the text and in the assignments and answers for such work as identifying the hero's journey phases in the movies and . Though minimal teacher involvement is required for your teens to learn and practice the material in this teacher's guide will equip you to be as involved as you care to be. Sharon Watson is the author of , the Illuminating Literature series, and the popular middle school writing curriculum JUMP IN. WE RECOMMEND USING THE UPDATED VERSION OF THE TEACHER'S GUIDE WITH THE UPDATED TEXTBOOK