1. The Fisherman And His Wife
(Fairy Tales/Brothers Grimm)

... up and down in boiling waves, and the ships were in trouble, and rolled fearfully upon the tops of the billows. In the middle of the heavens there was a little piece of blue sky, but towards the south ...

2. Swine Flu Prevention
(News/News)

... son had mono (after 4 months of illness-I understand why mother animals eat their young :)　You can view the lyrics on You Tube:   or for more information,  email us at: figiel@bellsouth.net ...

3. Role playing the civil war (5 & 7)
(Lesson Plans/Elementary School (K-5))

... Confederacy. 2. Identify three reasons of the North and three reasons of the South for the Civil War. 3. Identify and comprehend feeling experienced by both northern and southern states. 4. Identify ...

4. Oregon trail diary (5-11)
(Lesson Plans/Elementary School (K-5))

... obeys and pregnancy or illness is no excuse not to go or to postpone the trip. INDEPENDENCE, MISSOURI. Meet at the southeast corner of Courthouse Square and wait until enough wagons show up to form ...

5. ON THE SOLANDER WHALING GROUND
(Lessons/Short Stories)

A bright sunny morning; the gentle north-easterly breeze just keeping the sails full as the lumbering whaling-barque "Splendid" dips jerkily to the old southerly swell. Astern, the blue hills around ...

6. HEROISM IN HOUSEKEEPING
(Lessons/Short Stories)

... a town in southern Scotland.] "soured on his stomach" and it was plainly my duty as a Christian wife to bake at home. So I sent for Cobbett's "Cottage Economy," and fell to work at a loaf of bread. But, ...

7. WAR
(Lessons/Short Stories)

... Nevertheless, amid much weeping and swearing, they are selected; all dressed in red; and shipped away at the public charges some two thousand miles, or say only to the south of Spain; and fed there until ...

8. SIGHT IN SAVAGES
(Lessons/Short Stories)

In Patagonia [Footnote: Patagonia: the southern part of Argentine Republic.] I added something to my small stock of private facts concerning eyes--their appearance, color, and expression--and vision, ...

9. BLACK TOM
(Lessons/Games for the playground)

... the next game. The game as here given is played in Brooklyn, N.Y. The same game is played in the South under the title of "Ham, ham, chicken, ham, bacon!" the word "bacon" being the signal for the run, ...

10. THE BAZAAR IN MOROCCO
(Lessons/Short Stories)

... Soudan: the region south of the Sahara Desert.] and light-colored Arabs: Mussulmans [Footnote: Mussulmans: Mohammedans.] without conviction of the faith, whose women veil only their mouths; and the green-turbaned ...

11. A GREEN DONKEY DRIVER
(Lessons/Short Stories)

There dwelt an old man in Monastier, [Footnote: Monastier: a little village in southern France.] of rather unsound intellect according to some, much followed by street-boys, and known to fame as Father ...

12. TWENTY YEARS OF ARCTIC STRUGGLE
(Lessons/Short Stories)

... into a region of open leads, [Footnote: Open leads: open ways in an ice-field.] bearing north and south. Resting here for a few hours, Peary and his companions resumed their march at midnight, pushing ...

13. A CHILD
(Lessons/Short Stories)

In Kensington Gardens, [Footnote: Kensington Gardens: in southwest London.] that February day, it was very still. Trees, stripped of every leaf, raised their bare clean twigs towards a sky so grey and ...

14. SECOND INAUGURAL ADDRESS
(Lessons/Short Stories)

... generally over the Union, but localized in the southern part of it. These slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest. All knew that this interest was, somehow, the cause of the war. To strengthen, ...

15. THE ARCHERY CONTEST
(Lessons/Short Stories)

At the beginning of the contest a stranger appears to take part in the shooting. He tells Prince John that his name is Locksley. A target was placed at the upper end of the southern avenue which led ...

16. THE WHITE TRAIL
(Lessons/Short Stories)

... shorter. The sun swung above the horizon, low to the south, and dipped back as though pulled by some invisible string. Slanting through the trees it gave little cheer and no warmth. Early in the afternoon ...

17. THE PINE-TREE SHILLINGS
(Lessons/Short Stories)

... of bullion [Footnote: Bullion: uncoined gold or silver in the mass.] from the mines of South America, which the English buccaneers [Footnote: Buccaneers: pirates.]--who were little better than pirates--had ...

18. SALMON FISHING IN IRELAND
(Lessons/Short Stories)

... the wrong side, trying vainly to send their flies in the face of the southwester, which whirls their casting-lines back over their heads. They have caught a peal [Footnote: Peal: a small salmon.] or two, ...

19. AN ADVENTURE
(Lessons/Short Stories)

During the expedition to Upper Egypt under General Desaix, a Provencal [Footnote: Provencal. Provence was an ancient government of southeastern France. It became part of the crown lands in 1481 under ...

20. RECAPITULATION.
(Lessons/Geography)

RECAPITULATION. OCEANS. Where is? Pacific Ocean     West of America. Atlantic Ocean     East of America. Northern Ocean     North of North America. Southern Ocean     South of South America. ...