Based on the details you just shared with your small group and the resources from the beginning of class, what connections can you make between the poem and the image? How would you describe the “kingdom by the sea”? Small-group Discussion: Share what you noticed in the poem with a small group of students. ( Teachers, your students might enjoy this song version of the poem by Stevie Nicks.) Listening to the Poem ( enlist two volunteers to read the poem aloud): Listen as the poem is read aloud twice, and write down any additional words and phrases that stand out to you. What do you notice about the poem? Annotate for any words or phrases that stand out to you or any questions you might have. Reading the Poem: Now, read the poem “ Annabel Lee” by Edgar Allan Poe silently. If you feel comfortable, share what scares you. If you don’t know any scary stories, share some things that people are often frightened of. What else do you see?īefore Reading the Poem: Share a scary story or ghost story that you know with a partner. Warm-up: Look closely at the image of the “ Double Exposure: Spirit.” What do you notice? Look again. Read more about the framework upon which these activities are based. The following activities and questions are designed to help your students use their noticing skills to move through the poem and develop their thinking about its meaning with confidence, using what they’ve noticed as evidence for their interpretations.
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“What’s important now,” one of its leaders, Sergeant Drake Sholar, told Phillips, “is showing religious respect and understanding across the board as Norse Pagans, or Heathens, return to a distinguishable religious practice.”Īmen, selah. So fast-growing, in fact, that my colleague Maggie Phillips recently reported in Tablet magazine about the thriving, and officially recognized, pagan faith groups within the U.S. A decade later, the Pew survey posed the same question, and, if it is to believed, there are now about 1.5 million Americans professing an array of pagan persuasions, from Wicca to the Viking lore, making paganism one of the nation’s fastest-growing persuasions. But the researchers asked again in 2008, and this time, 340,000 Americans said yes to paganism. The numbers were unsurprisingly small: about 8,000, or enough to pack your average Journey reunion concert. In 1990, scholars from Trinity College set out to learn just how many of their fellow Americans practiced some form of pagan religion. If you think the above paragraph is a little bit overblown, consider the numbers. Everywhere you turn these days, pagans are afoot, busily hacking away at the Christian and Jewish foundations of American life and replacing them with a cosmology that would have been absolutely coherent to followers of, say, Voltumna, the Etruscan earth god, or to those who worshipped the Celt tribal protector Toutatis. "Kuang has crafted a story that is truly epic in nature, making this trilogy one of the best epic fantasies of the past decade." - Tor.com As her power and influence grows, though, will she be strong enough to resist the Phoenix’s intoxicating voice urging her to burn the world and everything in it? While her new allies in the Southern Coalition leadership are sly and untrustworthy, Rin quickly realizes that the real power in Nikan lies with the millions of common people who thirst for vengeance and revere her as a goddess of salvation.īacked by the masses and her Southern Army, Rin will use every weapon to defeat the Dragon Republic, the colonizing Hesperians, and all who threaten the shamanic arts and their practitioners. Returning to her roots, Rin meets difficult challenges-and unexpected opportunities. Kuang’s acclaimed, award-winning epic fantasy that combines the history of twentieth-century China with a gripping world of gods and monsters, to devastating, enthralling effect.Īfter saving her nation of Nikan from foreign invaders and battling the evil Empress Su Daji in a brutal civil war, Fang Runin was betrayed by allies and left for dead.ĭespite her losses, Rin hasn’t given up on those for whom she has sacrificed so much-the people of the southern provinces and especially Tikany, the village that is her home. The exciting end to the Poppy War trilogy, R. Remember that wonderful scene in the first Indie movie where hunky Harrison Ford is giving a lecture to some besotted female archeology students, and one girl closes her eyes to reveal that she has written ‘Love’ on one eyelid and ‘You’ on another? Well the lecture his 21st-century milquetoast equivalent delivers at Harvard is nothing like that. This mood strikes me particularly in those weeks when I find myself casting round for anything new and vaguely interesting to watch and I end up in front of something as epically dire as Sky’s new Dan Brown adaptation The Lost Symbol.īrown’s hero Robert Langdon, whom we first met on screen in the The Da Vinci Code, is like Indiana Jones with a charisma bypass. If it weren’t for this job I sometimes wonder whether I’d even bother watching TV at all. Why are readers drawn to horror? Read our Q & A with Marcus Sedgwick, the Printz honor author of Midwinterblood. He has published novels such as Floodland (winner of the Branford Boase Award in 2001) and The Dark Horse (shortlisted for The Guardian Children's Book Award 2002). He used to play for two bands namely playing the drums for Garrett and as the guitarist in an ABBA tribute group. Poe's story, as well as his own fascination with technique, provided that final piece of the puzzle." I had the initial idea some years ago but was just waiting for the right ingredient to come along. The most recent of these nominations rekindled a fascination with Poe that has borne fruit here in (in The Restless Dead, 2007) the form of "The Heart of Another" - inspired by Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart." Of his story, Sedgwick says, "This was one of those stories that I thought might be a novel originally but actually was much better suited to the tight form of the short story. He is the author of several books, including Witch Hill and The Book of Dead Days, both of which were nominated for the Edgar Allan Poe Award. Marcus is a British author and illustrator as well as a musician. Marcus Sedgwick was born in Kent, England. Overall, this was a fantastic read, and I highly recommend it! I even started conversations with people that haven’t read the book just because I wanted to talk about it. 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Harriett has a special connection with plants and nature that can be vicious and even deadly. Nessa hears voices of the dead begging to be found. Each has something special in them that is pulled out as their body begins to change. The Change follows three women as they move into mid-life. Must Read.Īnd that’s my review! Alright, just kidding, I have more to say, but seriously this book is amazing. Little Blue Truck feels, well, blue when he delivers valentine after valentine but receives nary a one. We miss some of the resonant psychological heft of this pair's previous experiences, but Frog and Toad can still transform the most ordinary seasonal activities into celebrations. In the winter Toad, riding in front, does a fine job of steering a sled until he realizes that the more experienced Frog has fallen off in summer he becomes covered with such a mess of sticks and leaves, stuck to the two ice cream cones that have melted all over him, that he scares off everyone but Frog, who recognizes him under the gunk and at Christmas he worries when his friend is late to dinner, until Frog shows up with a gift. In fall Frog and Toad rake each other's leaves for a surprise, but the wind undoes the jobs before either is aware of the other's favor elsewhere the friendship seems to have settled down to a kind of mellow harmony. Lobel's peerless, though much imitated, animal comrades do a little borrowing of their own here when Frog goes around the corner to look for spring, recalling Clifton's Boy Who Didn't Believe in Spring (1973) in this case we can't consider Lobel's more conventional rustic setting an improvement, but Frog does make the search his own. |