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Curriculum, workbooks and reader’s editions on the world’s wisdom traditions, for anyone who teaches or gathers people. We add titles slowly. Each section starts with what’s ready and then lists what’s in the works.

Curriculum Reader’s editions

Three editions, one source

Every title starts from the same research and the same primary sources. What changes is the wrapper, so it fits the room.

Classroom Edition

For teachers and homeschool parents. Standards, questions, answer keys and assessments.

Circle Edition

For anyone leading a group of adults. A facilitator guide, a session plan, discussion questions and a practice for each meeting. No grades and no quizzes.

Self-Study Edition

For one reader. A journal-style workbook with reflection and journaling prompts.

Not every title comes in all three yet. Each one below says what it comes in and who it’s for. Every title will also be a PDF you can download from us, and buying here will never cost more than buying it anywhere else.

Curriculum

Nonfiction reading passages on the world’s traditions and the people who carried them, for grades 8–11. Every packet teaches about religion as history and literature, and every section asks students to sort what is documented from what was told later.

Classroom Edition · Grades 8–11 · 68-page PDF plus a four-page Teacher Guide · $8.50 for one classroom

World Religions Through Six Lives

For: Classrooms · Homeschool

Six people who carried their own tradition further than its institutions were comfortable with: Rumi (Islam), Julian of Norwich (Christianity), Mirabai (Hinduism), Hakuin Ekaku (Buddhism), the Baal Shem Tov (Judaism) and Zhuangzi (Taoism).

Each section has a nonfiction passage of 626–677 words with numbered lines, a historical context sidebar, six vocabulary terms, eight text-dependent questions, a discussion set and a full answer key. A comparison organizer, an argumentative essay with a 16-point rubric, and a two-page spread of short readings in the six figures’ own words close the unit. It’s aligned to Common Core, the C3 Framework, AASL and Texas TEKS, and the Teacher Guide lists every code. Teach it as a six-day unit, a weekly routine, or six stand-alone sub plans.

Teaching at home, running a co-op, or buying for a school or district? See Licensing.

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In the works

These packets follow the same format, with four lives each unless noted, and the same four-page Teacher Guide.

Indigenous Voices. Black Elk, Luther Standing Bear, Charles Eastman (Ohiyesa) and Davi Kopenawa, four lives that reach us through their own telling or through an outsider who wrote it down.
Conscience and Resistance. Harriet Tubman, Howard Thurman, Dorothy Day and Mahatma Gandhi, with two famous misquotations corrected from the evidence.
Women Who Would Not Be Quiet. Hildegard of Bingen, Marguerite Porete, Akka Mahadevi and Joan of Arc, four women in four very different places in the historical record.
Poetry and the Sacred. Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, Hafiz and Kabir, each with a public-domain poem or excerpt.
The American Transcendentalists. Henry David Thoreau, Margaret Fuller, Emily Dickinson and John Muir.
Sikhism: The Ten Gurus. Guru Nanak, Guru Arjan, Guru Tegh Bahadur and Guru Gobind Singh, from the founder to the end of the line of human Gurus.
Confucius. A single reading on the teacher no king would hire, with a passage from the Analects in James Legge’s 1893 translation.

The Foundations series, also in the works, introduces one tradition per packet in six readings, from its beginnings to the way it’s practiced today: Buddhism, Hinduism, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Taoism and Sikhism.

Workbooks & Journals

Workbooks for practice and reflection are in the works, starting with Mind Muscle, a mindfulness workbook for grades 3–5.

Reader’s Editions

The complete text of a classic in a public-domain translation, with a companion for reading, journaling and group discussion built into the book.

In the works

Reader’s editions of The Cloud of Unknowing, the Tao Te Ching, the Dhammapada, The Little Flowers of St. Francis, Rumi’s Masnavi and the Gospel of Thomas, each built the same way.

Flashcards

Mystics of History, a flashcard set on figures from the world’s traditions, is in the works.

Training & Courses

The Aware Educator, a professional development course for teachers with a participant workbook and a facilitator guide, is in the works.

Professional development

Not sure where to start?

Tell us who you teach or gather, and we’ll point you to the right title. If you’d like background on a figure first, our free Mystics pages have it.