The VHL Teacher's Curriculum Guide
Vampire Huntress Legends 101 Many educators today are looking for creative ways to inspire their students to read--especially to get them to read literature that has a positive underlying message which promotes the core values of: "do the right thing," diversity and tolerance, and thinking of the larger world community, while also asking students to think about "choices and consequences" of their actions.
The Vampire Huntress Legend uses this within the context of "pop fiction" as the core foundation. The "good guys" are also cool. The setting is hip, urban, and contemporary, but beneath all the layers of fictive drama, the classic myths of a journey of transformation are told.
To that end, in 2005, a worthy veteran educator, Vera DaVinci, Program Manager for The Office of Accelerated Learning, School District of Philadelphia, created a "Teacher's Curriculum Guide" for the first two books of this series (Minion and The Awakening, both available in mass market sized paperbacks for a reasonable $6.99.)
Ms. DaVinci was requested to design this guide after we received numerous requests from educators nationwide who wanted to know how to harness the fantastic positive energy young people had as avid fans of the series. Given that the Major Themes in the VHL legend were in alignment with those themes many educators wanted to promote, these educators told us that they were also looking for ways to standardize a teaching methodology around the body of literature.
Thus, we are honored offer this to you in a downloadable PDF file format as a way to assist your literacy and teaching endeavors.
Click here for your free Teacher's Guide (PDF 1MB).
Installment
Serials
Between the Books
New Installments!
Content available only on the web! Can't get enough waiting for the next
book in the series? Check out our Between
Books section! And don't forget, excerpts
are always available for each book.
Damali's
Journal New Installment! Read
the intimate thoughts of a vampire huntress in Damali
Richard's personal journal. These entries can only be found
here! Warning: may contain spoilers!
Inside the Mind of a Vampire New Installment! Get
a glimpse into the complex mind of The Vampire Huntress Legends' most
mysterious character— Carlos Rivera— with Inside the Mind of a Vampire. These passages are exclusive to the
web and may contain spoilers!
New! Carlos' Black Box Inside the Mind of a Vampire brought you the inner thoughts of Carlos Rivera, but — as those who have read The Forbidden already know— something has changed. We now delve into the dark reaches of Carlos' mind in a new series: The Black Box.
Web-based Exclusive Content
The Facts Behind the Fiction The author's compilation of historical
and factual details appearing throughout the Vampire Huntress
Legends Series. Major Themes in the
Work L.
A. Banks' own take on the major
underlying themes presented in the series.