Mister James Teaches English

  For a very long time, Hercules (Heracles) did not know he was half man and half god. His mother was a mortal. But his father was a king - a very special king, the king of all the gods, the mighty Zeus. Zeus loved his little son. But Hera, Zeus' wife, hated Hercules. She was very jealous. She tried all kinds of ways to kill Hercules, including sending a couple of big snakes into his crib. Hercules crushed those snakes in a flash! Hercules was incredibly strong, even as a baby! To keep his small son safe from attack, Zeus sent him to live with a mortal family on earth in the ancient Greek city-state of Argos. Hercules grew up noble and loved. He married and had a couple of kids. He was happy, but he did not fit in on earth. He was too big and too strong. He was hard to miss. Hera soon discovered his location. The rest of the story of Hercules is a bunch of little stories that together tell the tale of how Hercules used clever tricks and great courage to stay alive and earn his way ...

  The Statue Of Liberty from Δήμητρα Κουτσιλά The Statue of Liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World; French: La Liberté éclairant le monde) is a colossal neoclassical sculpture on Liberty Island in New York Harbor within New York City, in the United States. The copper statue, a gift from the people of France to the people of the United States, was designed by French sculptor Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi and its metal framework was built by Gustave Eiffel. The statue was dedicated on October 28, 1886. The statue is a figure of Libertas, a robed Roman liberty goddess. She holds a torch above her head with her right hand, and in her left hand carries a tabula ansata inscribed JULY IV MDCCLXXVI (July 4, 1776 in Roman numerals), the date of the U.S. Declaration of Independence. A broken shackle and chain lie at her feet as she walks forward, commemorating the recent national abolition of slavery. After its dedication, the statue became an icon of freedom and of the United States, s...

Prometheus and Fire Icarus and Daedalus Medusa and Athena A myth is a classic or legendary story that usually focuses on a particular hero or event, and explains mysteries of nature, existence, or the universe with no true basis in fact. Myths exist in every culture; but the most well known in Western culture and literature are part of Greek and Roman mythology. The characters in myths—usually gods, goddesses, warriors, and heroes—are often responsible for the creation and maintenance of elements of nature, as well as physical, emotional, and practical aspects of human existence—for example Zeus; the god of the sky and the earth and father of gods and men, and Aphrodite; the goddess of love and fertility. A culture’s collective myths make up its mythology, a term that predates the word “myth” by centuries. The term myth stems from the ancient Greek muthos, meaning a speech, account, rumor, story, fable, etc. The terms myth and mythology as we understand them today arose in the E...

  James Henry Trotter is a boy who lives with his parents in a house by the sea happily. Unfortunately, when he is four years old, an escaped rhinoceros from the zoo eats James's parents and he ends up with his two cruel aunts, Spiker and Sponge. Instead of caring for him, they treat him badly, feed him improperly and force him to sleep on bare floorboards. After James had been living with his aunts for three years, he meets a mysterious man who gives him green beans and says that if he would drink it his life would change for the better. While going to his home he falls and the beans spill on a peach tree. The tree, in turn, produces a single peach which soon grows to the size of a house. Spiker and Sponge build fences around it and earn money by selling tickets to tourists, giving them the chance to see the peach. James is locked in his house and sees the peach through the bars of his bedroom window. After the tourists have gone, James is assigned to clean the rubbish and finds a...

The older students have started working on a module that is called Reading for Culture. It is made up of the following themes: What is Culture? We will be identifying culture through the course, so I do not want to add a big definition here. However, it may be enough to say that culture is how you understand the world around you and how you are understood by those around you. This idea will be developed through background readings and discussion that focus on culture in daily life, what cultures do students experience and witness, do students have a close affinity or participate in any particular cultures? The major goal of this course is to identifying cultures in texts; this consist of reading and discussions around set texts. We will be reading articles, stories and novels with the goal or focus of identifying culture and cultural elements in a complex text. These cultures are made up of elements that operate under broad headings such as: Work - how is work represented or referred ...

  Some grade grade 2s and 3s are reading The Night of the Living Dummy. BOOK SUMMARY  Identical twins Lindy and Kris Powel are always competing against each other, but the competition becomes really bizarre when they both get ventriloquist dummies. At first, Lindy’s dummy, Slappy, seems to be the big trouble maker. Slappy slaps Kris, insults her, and scares her almost to death in the girls’ bedroom at night. Then a horrifying incident happens late at night in the kitchen involving Kris’s dummy, Mr. Wood. And, finally, Lindy confesses that she knows who has been causing all the trouble—she has! Kris is furious at her twin, but at least she is no longer afraid of the dummies. However, that soon changes after Kris finds a mysterious note inside the pocket of Mr. Wood’s shirt. Soon after she reads the strange words on the note, Mr. Wood begins to take on a life of his own. First, he insults two elderly neighbors when Kris tries to put on a show. Then, even worse, he behaves ...

  A  dragon  is a  legendary creature , belonging to  mythology  and  fantasy . There are stories about dragons in  Chinese  culture,  European  culture, South American culture, and many others. There are many kinds of dragons in the different cultures. In general: A dragon has none to four legs, claws, scales and possibly spikes. Optional wings. A dragon is usually powerful. A dragon can look like a  snake  with  wings , or like  reptiles . A dragon has a tail and a neck. A dragon has a mouth with teeth. Some dragons can be heard about in stories, (e.g) George and the Dragon. Some dragons prefer to nest. Sometimes they have horns. This is rare but some dragons have scarlet tails. A dragon usually flies. The  Chinese dragon  is associated with the emperor of  China  so it can use the symbol of the imperial power. Some dragons live in Western European and Eastern Asia. A dragon usually breathes...