Blog love -Scholastic readers (Starter level) + MP3
Extensive reading improves fluency and motivates students in your classroom, contemporary graded material that is suitable for Beginner-level students. This title presents a 21st century story about a lonely Japanese student in London, who keeps a daily blog.
Youngsters will enjoy the relationship the girls have with each other and with Deja's aunt who is raising her. They will see that sometimes friends argue and disagree. Auntie is a loving character who guides Deja rather than telling her what to do. The illustrations by Laura Freeman are wonderfully expressive and add pizazz to the story. This is a welcome addition to chapter books for primary grade students.
Seven Against Thebes (Greek Tragedy in New Translations)
Added by: Kahena | Karma: 11526.37 | Fiction literature | 7 December 2011
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Seven Against Thebes (Greek Tragedy in New Translations)
The formidable talents of Anthony Hecht, one of the most gifted of contemporary American poets, and Helen Bacon, a classical scholar, are here brought to bear on this vibrant translation of Aeschylus' much underrated tragedy The Seven Against Thebes. The third and only remaining play in a trilogy dealing with related events, The Seven Against Thebes tells the story of the Argive attempt to claim the Kingdom of Thebes, and of the deaths of the brothers Eteocles and Polyneices, each by the others hand.
Four tales of fantasy by a twentieth-century literary master—selected as the 1975 New York Times Outstanding Book for Children John Gardner's first children's book takes the traditional fairy tale and turns it on its head. In the title story, a meddlesome dragon meets his match. "The Tailor and the Giant" tells the story of a cowardly man who finally faces his fears. A villainous beast of burden attempts to rid himself of his master in "The Miller's Mule." And in "The Last Piece of Light," a brave young chimney-sweep saves the world from darkness.
