Author Ingrid Ricks discovered the immense healing power and validation that comes from personal storytelling when she wrote her coming-of-age memoir, Hippie Boy. But it wasn't until she and high school English teacher Marjie Bowker collaborated on a month-long narrative writing unit that they realized personal storytelling could be used to transform the lives of students.The Hippie Boy Teaching Guide is a comprehensive narrative writing/reading guide that combines the narrative writing techniques in Hippie Boy with eleven narrative writing lesson plans to help students identify and write a scene from their own lives. Use it as a five-week narrative writing unit in the classroom or as an independent guide for an outside reading or writing credit.. Eleven narrative writing lesson plans (tied to the Common Core State Standards). Graphic organizers for narrative elements and scene construction. Techniques to help students identify their stories. Vocabulary & discussion questions. Writing prompts. Dramatic sketches. Samples of student writing