Rudyard Kipling
Rikki-tikki-tavi - 72 views
Jungle Book Shows - TVOKids.com - 17 views
New Forms, but People Will Always Read - Room for Debate - NYTimes.com - 3 views
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Fiction brings us the news of ourselves, as literature always has and always will. That’s “entertainment,” in its deepest and most satisfying form. That’s pleasure, meaning, passion, glimpses of profoundest truth, the salvation of art. “The Jungle” may have sparked reform, but I daresay “Mrs. Dalloway” has changed more people’s lives.
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But as long as people use language, tell stories and want to know about themselves, they will read fiction. The novel is a sturdy old contraption that continues to outlive its mourners.
the Truth About Being a Hero - WSJ - 14 views
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We all want to be special, to stand out; there's nothing wrong with this. The irony is that every human being is special to start with, because we're unique to start with.
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n the military I could exercise the power of being automatically respected because of the medals on my chest, not because I had done anything right at the moment to earn that respect.
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I knew many Marines had done brave deeds that no one saw and for which they got no medals at all.
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Thoreau's Walking - 2 - 0 views
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"A white man bathing by the side of a Tahitian was like a plant bleached by the gardener's art compared with a fine, dark green one growing vigorously in the open fields."
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Life consists with Wildness. The most alive is the wildest. Not yet subdued to man, its presence refreshes him.
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Hope and the future for me are not in lawns and cultivated fields, not in towns and cities, but in the impervious and quaking swamps.
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Chart Jungle - Behaviour Management Printables - 129 views
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A superb site to download behaviour charts, stickers, pictures and lots more to keep your class motivated. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Classroom+Management+%26+Rewards
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