The year of 2006-2007 issue contains a myth or legend well-known in one of the five countries: Ireland. England, the USA. South Africa and Australia. Legends, folk stories and myths are important to the understanding of a culture, and we hope you'll enjoy those we have chosen to represent each of these countries. We enjoyed researching the articles for you, and we hope we have chosen great poets from each country for the Literature section whose works represent the myths and legends.
Read and Understand Myths & Legends, Grades 4-6
Ancient cultures from around the globe are represented in Read & Understand, Myths & Legends, which draws numerous lessons from timeless stories of gods, goddesses, heroes and heroines.
This volume features 19 two- and three-page stories that vary in reading difficulty from fourth to ending sixth grade to meet a range of needs.
A humorous take on world history debunks the myths that surround Cleopatra, Nero, Robin Hood, King Arthur, Joan of Arc, and other historical icons. By the author of One Night Stands with American History
Getting a child's attention is hard enough, but holding it is the real challenge. This exciting series takes young readers to the farthest reaches of the Solar System, to every corner of the globe, back to the ancient myths of Greece and Rome, and inside the circuitry of the walls in their homes.
This book is an account of Britain and British life specially written for the Russian reader. In 1991 I wrote the first version of Understanding Britain for readers in the Soviet Union who were, as was clear at the time, on the brink of jumping into a very different world from the one that they had known. That book was intended to help them understand the very strangeness of 'the West' about which there were so many myths in Russia, and to explain to them some characteristics of British life in particular. It was revised in 1994 and again in 1995, but much of the ex-Soviet flavour remained
