The Lays of Ancient Rome are five ballads written by the Englishman Thomas Babington Macaulay and published in 1842. These ballads (lays) celebrate events and heroes in ancient Roman history, and Horatius at the Bridge is the most famous of Macaulay’s ballads.
The Lays of Ancient Rome are five ballads written by the Englishman Thomas Babington Macaulay and published in 1842. These ballads (lays) celebrate events and heroes in ancient Roman history, and Horatius at the Bridge is the most famous of Macaulay’s ballads. Ballads are narratives that are composed and sung orally. In more primitive societies, before the development of writing, they were an essential means of remembering and celebrating the past.
Follow the story about the King who wants to give the Queen something special for her birthday. The Queen has everything, everything except a bed.
The trouble is that no one in the Kingdom knows the answer to a very important question: How Big is a Bed? because beds at the time had not yet been invented. The Queen's birthday is only a few days away...
How many jelly beans are enough?
How many are too many?
Aiden and Emma can't decide. Is 10 enough?
How about 1,000? That's a lot of jelly beans.
But eaten over a whole year, it's only two or three a day...
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While visiting the beach with her grandchildren, Grandma keeps them entertained with the story of Sammy the salmon who goes off in search of adventure. Read along as he leaves the river and heads into the ocean all alone. Along the way, he meets many sea creatures and dangers before discovering the wonder that is coral-land.
Diagram over 100 sentences by masters of the English language, and learn how to analyze and understand clear, effective writing.
Using this book requires The Diagramming Dictionary, which explains each rule.
This complete compendium of sentence diagramming rules, including illustrated sample diagrams and accompanied by a full book of practice exercises, is an indispensable guide to diagramming and writing—throughout high school, into college, and beyond.
Girls and boys ages 5 to 10 can learn to draw many different birds by using circles, ovals, rectangles, squares, and other shapes! There are 30 pictures to create: peacock, swan, duck, cardinal, penguin, toucan, owl, ostrich, and more. Simple directions and step-by-step illustrations make it easy and practice pages are included. Plus, the illustrations can be colored when finished.
Budding artists can easily create a variety of different types of transportation by joining circles, ovals, rectangles, cylinders, and other common shapes!
• 30 pictures to draw: canoe, biplane, antique locomotive, ocean liner, seaplane, passenger car, modern train, and more
• Simple directions, step-by-step illustrations
• Includes blank practice pages
• Illustrations can be colored when finished
• For children ages 5 to 10