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![]() ![]() Gregor wants to get up to go to work, but suddenly realizes that he is already late and must have missed the alarm. Gregor's chief at work is extremely tyrannical, and Gregor wants to quit the job but cannot do so until he has paid off the debts that his parents owe the chief. He is a traveling salesman, and he hates traveling because he dislikes worrying and getting up early. Since he can't turn on his side, Gregor cannot fall asleep, so instead he begins thinking about his job. His attention quickly switches to observing his room, which he finds very ordinary but a bit small, and a framed magazine clipping of a woman in fur hanging up on the wall. Gregor briefly examines his new body, but wonders only momentarily about what has happened to him. Gregor Samsa wakes up to find that he has been transformed into a giant insect. ![]() ![]() The series focuses on the power vacuums a collapse of that magnitude leaves, and how the innocents always end up having to pay more then the soldiers. Rosemary Sutcliff … was an English, wheelchair-bound classicist in the 1950s who wrote about the Romans leaving Britain and the collapse of Roman civilization. The second source of inspiration was Rosemary Sutcliff’s The Eagle of the Ninth series, which is “the book that Holly is reading to the kids in the last section”. He spoke first of a “really good book published in the 1950s called The Death of Grass where a killer virus doesn’t kill us, humans…but gets the crops we eat”. In an interview for an online magazine about books, arts, and culture-The Millions- David Mitchell was asked whether any specific sources inspired his vision of how the world might look in twenty years time. ![]() ![]() David Mitchell’s The Bone Clocks was nominated for the 2014 Man Booker Prize. Holly Sykes, the heroine, appears in some form in each of its six segments, which begin in 1984 and stretch to 2034. The sixth and final portion imagines a near future in which an ‘Endarkment’ has reset the world into barbaric times. ![]() ![]() A story that could be either uncompromisingly bleak or unbearably saccharine is neither in Center’s hands Margaret faces her challenges with a sense of humor that feels natural. He has a prickly exterior, but Margaret slowly begins to realize that there may be more to him than she initially thought. As her family members try in their own ways to motivate Margaret, she also has to get through physical therapy with Ian, the world’s grumpiest Scottish physical therapist. Now, Margaret has only her family to depend on-her well-meaning but controlling mother, her loving father, and her black-sheep sister, Kitty, who returns to town after years of estrangement. Suddenly, everything about Margaret’s life has changed: Her job offer is rescinded, Chip can’t cope with her injuries, and she may never walk again. Chip walks away without a scratch while Margaret has severe burns on her neck and a spinal cord injury. But then Margaret’s biggest nightmare becomes a reality: The plane crashes. ![]() ![]() When Chip proposes in the air, Margaret has everything she’s ever wanted: an MBA, a great job lined up, and now the fiance of her dreams. Margaret Jacobsen has always been afraid of flying-which is why she’s extra hesitant to get in a plane flown by her pilot-in-training boyfriend, Chip, on Valentine’s Day. ![]() A woman faces a new life after surviving a plane crash in this moving story from Center ( Happiness for Beginners, 2015, etc.). ![]() ![]() ![]() With Jan’s plan, I am able to create a familiar routine to follow without spending a million hours planning each week. It is based out of Fountas & Pinnell’s reading research and takes all the guesswork out of my groups. Using texts from Learning A-Z and $1 books from Scholastic, I follow Jan Richardson’s Guided Reading plan and LOVE it. Honestly, I don’t use or create my own Guided Reading products. I receive *a lot* of questions about how I plan for guided reading making the process as streamlined and efficient as possible. ![]() ![]() Since Guided Reading often means planning for 3-6 groups a week (many groups reading 2+ texts a week), I know the planning and preparing can be overwhelming. As a teacher, we coach and scaffold our readers all while pushing them forward in their reading routines. Guided Reading offers students intentional reading instruction with texts that are just a little too hard. ![]() ![]() ![]() Why has this odd and terrifying figure exerted such a hold on our collective imagination? Why does the image of the vampire both attract and repel, in apparently equal measure? If, as has been argued, Dracula owes its success to its reflection of specific anxieties within the culture, why then has its power continued unabated throughout more than a century of unprecedented social change? Late-Victorian anxieties and concerns were rather different from our own, yet the lure of the vampire and the persistence of his image seem as strong as ever.ĭracula's durability may in part be due to Tod Browning's 1931 film, for when most people think of the character, it is Bela Lugosi's portrayal that springs to mind. Now, more than a hundred years after his appearance in print, Dracula has shed the status of "fictional character" altogether and has become an authentic modern myth. But this one was different: Over the course of the next century Count Dracula, the aristocratic vampire, left his natural habitat between the pages of a book and insinuated himself into the world's consciousness as few other fictional characters haveever done. Most such "shilling shockers" were forgotten within a year or two. Upon its publication in 1897, Bram Stoker's Dracula was seen as nothing more than a slightly cheesy thriller, if an unusually successful one. From Brooke Allen's Introduction to Dracula ![]() ![]() ![]() Imagine what terrible things might happen when four children successfully wish to be “as beautiful as the day,” or to be “rich beyond the dreams of avarice,” or to have wings, or to grow to giant size, etc., etc. What makes the magic work is that the children are such believable characters and have such an interesting relationship with each other, and the world they’re in is so realistic–yet with these amazing, magical things happening, and having the very result they would likely have if they ever did happen. This ancient magical creature, which is comically grouchy, offers the children a wish a day, and of course all their wishes go hilariously wrong. ![]() It’s described as a creature with the arms and legs of a monkey, the body of a giant spider, the protruding eyes of a snail, and the ears of a bat. ![]() While digging in the gravel pit one day, the children discover a Psammead, or Sand Fairy, the “It” of the title. They are siblings, two brothers and two sisters from London, who find themselves enjoying a summer holiday at a country house in Kent where there is a gravel pit on one side and a chalk pit on the other. It mostly has to do with four children, really, though from time to time their helpless baby brother also gets involved. Purchase hereĮ is short for Edith, a British-authoress of magical stories for children who also happened to be an outspoken feminist and socialist in her time (late 19th century, early 20th). ![]() ![]() ![]() The Catholic Church and the United States also joined the fight in support of the new political party. However, the prominence of the labor union grew exponentially occupying over one-third of the nation’s population. After the election, the leaders were forced underground by those who sought to maintain martial law. According to the author, most of the party’s support came from the working-class citizens in the country. The achievement of democracy in the country became the footing for democracy in the other states.Īsh was present on the day of the election and gives an account of how the first Democratic Party experienced hardship during its first years. In the year 1989, a successful democratic election was held in Poland which led to a major shift in power. However, in the 1980s civil wars broke out in most of these states which shook the control of the Soviet Union over these states. ![]() These states became members of the communist regime after the Second World War. In the book, Ash gives firsthand accounts of the beginning of democracy in the previous communists’ states which included Poland, East Germany, and Czechoslovakia. The essays recount the fall of the communists in Eastern Europe. The Magic Lantern is a collection of essays by esteemed writer and historian Timothy Garton Ash. ![]() Written by people who wish to remain anonymous We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own. ![]() These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community. ![]() ![]() ![]() While she had suspicions of Lennon's infidelity over the years, with friends telling her that Lennon had had numerous affairs as far back as their time together at art college in Liverpool, Cynthia ignored the warnings.Īccording to housekeeper Dorothy Jarlett, Lennon became nonchalant towards his wife around 1967 - five years after they tied the knot - when the Beatles were at the height of their fame. Kenwood became the place to visit for the other Beatles, various American musicians and total strangers that Lennon had met the previous night in London nightclubs. The Lennons bought Kenwood, then a 22-bedroom home, in Weybridge, Surrey, for £20,000 in 1964. The pair married in 1962, when Cynthia was just 22, after she became pregnant with their son Julian.īeatles' members George Harrison, Paul McCartney, and The Beatles' manager, Brian Epstein - who was best man - all attended. ![]() Cynthia Lennon, nee Powell, grew up in a middle-class community on the Wirral, met John Lennon while they were both students at the Liverpool College of Art. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This remains just as important as ever-because even when we’re apart, we know that reading has the power to bring people together. LeVar Burton, actor, director, educator, and executive producer of PBS’s Reading Rainbowįor 125 years, The New York Public Library has brought the enjoyment of books and reading to communities across New York City-through millions of books offered in our 92 locations across the Bronx, Manhattan, and Staten Island, plus robust public programs, dynamic book discussions, and expert staff here to help readers find their next great read. ![]() Neil Gaiman, Hugo Award–winning author of Coraline.The New York Public Library invites readers of all ages to join us from Tuesday, May 12 to Monday, May 18 at 6 PM EDT as we share an online reading of Neil Gaiman's beloved tale of bravery and resilience, Coraline. ![]() |