Write Your Own Fable Day 1 – First Draft You have done some preliminary work on your fable. You have thought about the animals and their characteristics and about a situation in which to embed the fable. Do you have a moral in mind? Or a fable that you would like to retell in yourContinue reading “Progymnasmata for the High School Student – Year One, Week Nine”
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Progymnasmata for the High School Student – Year One, Week Eight
More 19th Century Fables & Beyond We now turn to the English-speaking world. Day 1 – Ralph Waldo Emerson Emerson (d. 1882) was an American thinker and writer. Retell this story in prose from the perspective of the mountain. Emerson’s The Mountain and the Squirrel (1846) Day 2 – Christina Rossetti Rossetti (d. 1894) wasContinue reading “Progymnasmata for the High School Student – Year One, Week Eight”
Incorporating Works of Art at the British Museum into a Global History
The Paleolithic Olduvai Chopping Tool ; Olduvai Ball ; Olduvai Cleaver ; Olduvai Handaxe (object catalogue entries, all Olduvai objects with images) Swimming Reindeer (11,000 BC, object catalogue entry) Ice Age Art (video) The Lion Man: an Ice Age Masterpiece (blogpost) Living with the Gods: The Beginnings of Belief (podcast) History of the World: SwimmingContinue reading “Incorporating Works of Art at the British Museum into a Global History”
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