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About Ashtown Burials
About Ashtown Burials The Smith family may have an ordinary name but they don’t have an ordinary life. Cyrus and Antigone have been raised by their older brother, Daniel, ever since they lost their dad and their mother fell into a coma. But that all changes when a bizarre man named Billy Bones arrives, bearing their inheritance: a set of magical keys. The younger Smiths set out on a quest to understand their family heritage, a quest that includes joining an ancient order of immortal explorers that has members from both history and mythology, such as Amelia Earhart, Ponce de León, and Arachne of Greek mythology. Their enemies? Also immortals of historical and mythological note. The wildly imaginative plot, epic world-building, and a cast of characters who have stepped out of the past make Ashtown a series that adventure and book lovers should not miss! Connecting to Common Core State Standards The Standards used in this guide are examples from reading StandardS for Literature the fifth grade. If teaching another grade, you may Key Ideas and Details want to visit the Common Core State Standards website at CoreStandards.org to locate the equivalent RL 1. Quote accurately from a text when explaining standards for your grade. what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text. Speaking and LiStening StandardS RL 2. Determine a theme of a story, drama, or poem Comprehension and Collaboration from details in the text, including how characters in a story or drama respond to challenges or how the 1a. Come to discussions having read or studied speaker in a poem reflects upon a topic; summarize required material; explicitly draw on that preparation the text. -
Embracing Popular Culture's Fascination with Mythology
Volume 41 Number 3 Article 4 March 2013 Embracing Popular Culture’s Fascination with Mythology Jeremy Larson Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcollections.dordt.edu/pro_rege Part of the Christianity Commons, and the Modern Literature Commons Recommended Citation Larson, Jeremy (2013) "Embracing Popular Culture’s Fascination with Mythology," Pro Rege: Vol. 41: No. 3, 23 - 30. Available at: https://digitalcollections.dordt.edu/pro_rege/vol41/iss3/4 This Feature Article is brought to you for free and open access by the University Publications at Digital Collections @ Dordt. It has been accepted for inclusion in Pro Rege by an authorized administrator of Digital Collections @ Dordt. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Editor’s Note: Jeremy Larson presented this paper in a session for the Popular Culture Conference at Dordt College, November 3, 2012. Embracing Popular Culture’s Fascination with Mythology demanded to know if little Nell was alive.2 Stories have the power to excite us, and it is axiomatic that people love stories. But I want to consider a specific kind of story: myth.3 The ubiquity of mythology in our culture is undeniable, as our days of the week and some of our months will readily attest. Even our everyday allusions are infused with references to pagan gods and demigods. For example, it is common to hear a football commentator use “Achilles heel” to de- scribe a losing team’s inability to convert on the fourth down. In addition, children’s literature has enjoyed somewhat of a mythological renaissance. Trending by Jeremy Larson characters such as Harry Potter and Percy Jackson are actually newcomers—Lucy Pevensie and Ubiquity Bilbo have been around for more than fifty years. -
A Banquet of Books
A Banquet of Books A reading list to cultivate virtue, feed the imagination, and fatten the soul. Table of Contents Introduction 2 Kindergarten 3 Read-Aloud and Early Readers 3 Lower Grammar (Grades 1-3) Reading List 5 Level 1 5 Level 2 7 Level 3 9 Upper Grammar (Grades 4-6) Reading List 12 Level 1 12 Level 2 14 Level 3 17 Logic Level (Grades 7-9) Reading List 20 Level 1 20 Level 2 21 Level 3 23 Rhetoric Level (Grades 10-12) Reading List 25 Level 1 25 Level 2 26 Level 3 28 Logic/Rhetoric Level (Grades 7-12) Poetry List 31 Education, Imagination, and the Life of the Mind List 32 Introduction “A room without books is like a body without a soul.” ~Cicero “It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.” ~ Oscar Wilde Few things in life are more wonderful than sunny summer afternoons spent with a curious child and a stack of good books. We offer this list in the hope that it will encourage you to pursue many such magical afternoons. All of the books in this list were chosen because they encourage their readers to seek the truth, grow in goodness, and love what is beautiful. Except for the Kindergarten selections, these books were placed at a level where students could read them on their own and enjoy them without outside assistance.1 Every list reflects the experience and preferences of the list’s authors.