Our unit of study Journey: Challenge and Response, focussing on the book ‘Maestro’ and the film ‘Stand By Me’ has helped me to discover a variety of new insights into the topic of journey and to learn more about the different types of journeys, their outcomes and consequences. I have also discovered a number of other resources that contain aspects of journey including the well-known book series, ‘The Tomorrow Series’ by John Marsden as well …showed first 75 words of 1310 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1310 total…to be expressed in more words than a dictionary meaning can offer. A challenge is something faced within a journey. A person must confront the challenge to receive an outcome. A response is how the person involved answers the challenge, by either overcoming the challenge or succumbing to it. I have learnt that we can’t just call a journey ‘the act of travelling’, a journey is much more in depth, involving effects and consequences.