Pandora's Socks and Other Fractured Greek Myths

Pandora's Socks and Other Fractured Greek Myths

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  • Author: Lisa Adams
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN: 9781886588660
  • Category :
  • Languages : en
  • Pages :

WHAT IT IS: This fun and hilarious NON-musical play helps you teach the standards while bringing your classroom to life! Easy-to-do play comes with script and teacher's guide. NO drama experience is required! Go big and perform on stage, keep it simple with a classroom performance, or simply do reader's theater in class. No fancy sets, costumes, or performance spaces are needed, so it's all up to you! Flexible casting for 8-40 students and permission to edit the script make it easy to tailor the play to the needs of your class and community. Your purchase of one copy per teacher includes permission to photocopy the script for students. /// WHAT IT TEACHES: Developed to work closely with your ancient world curriculum, "Pandora's Socks and Other Fractured Greek Myths" is a hilarious mashup of some of the most famous mythological tales. 30 minutes; grades 3-7. /// SYNOPSIS: Everyone knows the myth of Pandora: she opened up a box and released a ton of evils into the world. What was her motivation? Now we know: her feet were cold, and she was just looking for some socks! While she hunts for something to warm her feet, Pandora meets favorite characters from Greek mythology¿including Midas, Icarus, Narcissus, Heracles, Prometheus, and the gods. /// WHAT IT DOES: "Pandora's Socks" is a great complement to your curriculum resources in language arts. And, like all Bad Wolf Press plays, this show can be used to improve reading comprehension, vocabulary, performance and speaking skills, class camaraderie and teamwork, and school engagement and parental involvement¿all while enabling students to be part of a truly fun and creative experience they will never forget!


Weight

Weight

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  • Author: Jeanette Winterson
  • Publisher: Vintage Canada
  • ISBN: 0307367363
  • Category : Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 170

The story of Atlas and Heracles Atlas knows how it feels to carry the weight of the world; but why, he asks himself, does it have to be carried at all? In Weight — visionary and inventive, yet completely believable and relevant to the questions we ask ourselves every day — Winterson’s skill in turning the familiar on its head to show us a different truth is put to stunning effect. When I was asked to choose a myth to write about, I realized I had chosen already. The story of Atlas holding up the world was in my mind before the telephone call had ended. If the call had not come, perhaps I would never have written the story, but when the call did come, that story was waiting to be written. Rewritten. The recurring language motif of Weight is “I want to tell the story again.” My work is full of Cover Versions. I like to take stories we think we know and record them differently. In the retelling comes a new emphasis or bias, and the new arrangement of the key elements demands that fresh material be injected into the existing text. Weight moves far away from the simple story of Atlas’s punishment and his temporary relief when Hercules takes the world off his shoulders. I wanted to explore loneliness, isolation, responsibility, burden, and freedom too, because my version has a very particular end not found elsewhere. —from Jeanette Winterson’s Foreword to Weight


Project Pandora

Project Pandora

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  • Author: Aden Polydoros
  • Publisher: Entangled: Teen
  • ISBN: 1633756866
  • Category : Young Adult Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 338

Tyler Bennett trusts no one. Just another foster kid bounced from home to home, he’s learned that lesson the hard way. Cue world’s tiniest violin. But when strange things start happening—waking up with bloody knuckles and no memory of the night before or the burner phone he can’t let out of his sight—Tyler starts to wonder if he can even trust himself. Even stranger, the girl he’s falling for has a burner phone just like his. Finding out what’s really happening only leads to more questions...questions that could get them both killed. It’s not like someone’s kidnapping teens lost in the system and brainwashing them to be assassins or anything, right? And what happens to rogue assets who defy control? In a race against the clock, they’ll have to uncover the truth behind Project Pandora and take it down—before they’re reactivated. Good thing the program spent millions training them to kick ass... The Assassin Fall series is best enjoyed in order. Reading Order: Hades Rising (prequel novella) Book #1 Project Pandora Book #2 Project Prometheus


The Gods and Goddesses of Olympus

The Gods and Goddesses of Olympus

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  • Author: Aliki
  • Publisher: Harper Collins
  • ISBN: 0064461890
  • Category : Juvenile Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 52

Long, long ago in ancient Greece, people began telling wonderful stories to explain the mysteries of life. These myths featured gods and goddesses, mighty beings who look human but have amazing powers and live forever. Now you can meet these extraordinary characters and hear their legends, brought to life again by Aliki in this splendid, panoramic look at the amazing stories and characters of Greek legend. "[Will meet the] demand for basic information on the gods and goddesses at the primary level."—BL. "Aliki's fans will welcome her introduction to these famous Greeks."—SLJ. 1994 "Pick of the Lists" (ABA)


Shakespeare Unshackled

Shakespeare Unshackled

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  • Author: John Heath
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN: 9781886588394
  • Category :
  • Languages : en
  • Pages :

WHAT IT IS: This fun and hilarious musical play helps you teach the standards while bringing your classroom to life! Easy-to-do play comes with script, audio CD, and teacher's guide. NO music or drama experience is required¿you don't have to sing or play a note! Go big and perform on stage, keep it simple with a classroom performance, or simply do reader's theater in class. No fancy sets, costumes, or performance spaces are needed, so it's all up to you! Flexible casting for 8-40 students and permission to edit the script and songs make it easy to tailor the play to the needs of your class and community. Your purchase of one copy per teacher includes permission to photocopy the script for students. /// WHAT IT TEACHES: "Shakespeare Unshackled" is the perfect introduction to the Bard! With comedy and catchy songs, the play teaches about Shakespeare's life, Elizabethan London, and plays and theater during that time. It also incorporates dozens of quotations from Shakespeare's works, including extended passages from Othello and Romeo and Juliet (and a fractured description of A Midsummer Night's Dream). 35 minutes; grades 5-12+. /// WHAT IT DOES: "Shakespeare Unshackled" is a great complement to your curriculum resources in language arts. And, like all Bad Wolf Press plays, this show can be used to improve reading comprehension, vocabulary, performance and speaking skills, class camaraderie and teamwork, and school engagement and parental involvement¿all while enabling students to be part of a truly fun and creative experience they will never forget!


Macbeth, the Musical Comedy

Macbeth, the Musical Comedy

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  • Author: John Heath
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN: 9781886588189
  • Category :
  • Languages : en
  • Pages :

WHAT IT IS: This fun and hilarious musical play helps you teach the standards while bringing your classroom to life! Easy-to-do play comes with script, audio CD, and teacher's guide. NO music or drama experience is required¿you don't have to sing or play a note! Go big and perform on stage, keep it simple with a classroom performance, or simply do reader's theater in class. No fancy sets, costumes, or performance spaces are needed, so it's all up to you! Flexible casting for 8-40 students and permission to edit the script and songs make it easy to tailor the play to the needs of your class and community. Your purchase of one copy per teacher includes permission to photocopy the script for students. /// SYNOPSIS: "Macbeth, the Musical Comedy" is a hilariously fractured version of Shakespeare's famous tale. Macbeth, a tad confused, keeps spouting lines from Hamlet (much to the annoyance of the other characters), Lady Macbeth is obsessed with dry-cleaning the castle drapes, and King Duncan boasts that he invented plaid. 35 minutes; grades 6-12+. /// WHAT IT DOES: "Macbeth, the Musical Comedy" is a great complement to your curriculum resources in language arts. And, like all Bad Wolf Press plays, this show can be used to improve reading comprehension, vocabulary, performance and speaking skills, class camaraderie and teamwork, and school engagement and parental involvement¿all while enabling students to be part of a truly fun and creative experience they will never forget!


The Pandora Room

The Pandora Room

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  • Author: Christopher Golden
  • Publisher: St. Martin's Press
  • ISBN: 1250192110
  • Category : Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 320

"A wonderful, wild ride." —Michael Koryta, New York Times Bestselling author of How It Happened and If She Wakes From the New York Times bestselling and Bram Stoker Award-winning author comes the sensational new novel that turns ancient lore into a modern-day horror. In one variation on the myth of Pandora’s Box, there were two jars, one for Pandora and one for her sister. One contained blessings of the gods, the other all the world’s curses... Archaeologist Sophie Durand has spent her life studying ancient mythology and languages. Years of work have led her to the greatest discovery of her career, a subterranean city deep in the heart of Northern Iraq. When Sophie’s team uncovers a secret chamber whose walls are covered in cuneiform, along with a warning from Alexander the Great, history and mythology begin to merge. The writings confirm the Pandora tale of two jars, but the chamber guards only one. It’s a find that could make history, or start a war. Weird-science expert Ben Walker is called in as the mystery grows ugly. Those who believe the myth want to know which jar was found, the one containing blessings or the one full of curses. Governments rush to lay claim, but jihadi forces aren’t waiting for the dust to settle. Whatever the jars contain, they want it, no matter the cost. For Sophie, Walker, and the others, the Pandora Room may soon become their tomb. In a novel that breathes new life into the supernatural thriller, Christopher Golden's pulse-pounding tale is not to be missed.


Hobbies

Hobbies

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  • Author: Otto C. Lightner
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN:
  • Category : Collectors and collecting
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 804


Closing of the American Mind

Closing of the American Mind

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  • Author: Allan Bloom
  • Publisher: Simon and Schuster
  • ISBN: 1439126267
  • Category : Social Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 403

The brilliant, controversial, bestselling critique of American culture that “hits with the approximate force and effect of electroshock therapy” (The New York Times)—now featuring a new afterword by Andrew Ferguson in a twenty-fifth anniversary edition. In 1987, eminent political philosopher Allan Bloom published The Closing of the American Mind, an appraisal of contemporary America that “hits with the approximate force and effect of electroshock therapy” (The New York Times) and has not only been vindicated, but has also become more urgent today. In clear, spirited prose, Bloom argues that the social and political crises of contemporary America are part of a larger intellectual crisis: the result of a dangerous narrowing of curiosity and exploration by the university elites. Now, in this twenty-fifth anniversary edition, acclaimed author and journalist Andrew Ferguson contributes a new essay that describes why Bloom’s argument caused such a furor at publication and why our culture so deeply resists its truths today.


Hatshepsut, Queen of Denial

Hatshepsut, Queen of Denial

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  • Author: John Heath
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN: 9781886588493
  • Category :
  • Languages : en
  • Pages :