Probably the first time anyone used "ectoplasmic" in a literary book review

I just found this and thought it was cool:

"...in 1922, the year that Proust died with his great mythical Recherche complete, the appearance of The Waste Land, Ulysses, and the more ectoplasmic Fantasia of the Unconscious startled the literary public also into realizing the importance of myth.  It was the next year that Cassirer began to bring the problem into systematic philosophy, and in the thirty years since then the word myth has continued to produce that uninterrupted flow of talk which is generally called, and sometimes accompanies, a steady advance in thinking."

(Northrop Frye, 1953 review of Ernst Cassirer, Philosophy of Symbolic Forms, vol. 1, trans. Ralph Manheim.  Included in Northrop Frye on Culture and Literature: A Collection of Review Essays, edited and with an introduction by Robert D Denham.)

Dollygirl's Grade Seven, Week Seven: Wednesday plans

Book of Acts, Chapter 12.  "So Peter was kept in prison, but the church was earnestly praying to God for him."

How to Read a Book, by Mortimer J. Adler: "Inspectional Reading I: Systematic Skimming or Pre-reading." How to use detective skills on an unfamiliar book. "First, you do not know whether you want to read the book.  You do not know whether it deserves an analytical reading....Second, let us assume--and this is very often the case--that you have only a limited time in which to find all this out."

Discovering Mathematical Thought, by Hal Torrance. "At a particular horse show people bring in their extra equipment for making trades. Boots, bits, saddle pads, and saddles are all actively traded at the show. If you wanted to trade for a saddle but had no bits to trade, what would be another combination that would work?"  (The relative value of the items is shown in a diagram.)

First History of France, by Louise Creighton:   "Charles the Great was not only a mighty conqueror, he worked hard to give good government to all his vast dominions.  He placed counts in the different provinces, to judge wrongdoers and to collect the taxes. He bade them treat every one with moderation, and be the defenders of the widows and orphans.  He...used to gather all the chief nobles, bishops, and abbots round him, to discuss the laws which he and his advisers had drawn up, which were called capitularies. With all those who came together Charles talked freely, trying to learn from each the condition of his country, joking with the young, and treating the old with respect and reverence."

Dictation prepared from First History of France.

Natural history: reading TBA.

Sewing time

Sigurd the Volsung, by William Morris (edited for schools)

THERE was a dwelling of Kings ere the world was waxen old ;
Dukes were the door- wards there, and the roofs were thatched
with gold :
Earls were the wrights that wrought it, and silver nailed its doors;
Earls' wives were the weaving-women, queens' daughters strewed
its floors,
And the masters of its song-craft were the mightiest men that cast
The sails of the storm of battle adown the bickering blast.
There dwelt men merry-hearted, and in hope exceeding great
Met the good days and the evil as they went the way of fate...

Easy Grammar Plus: finish work on direct objects, begin unit on verbs.

Quote for the day: whose psyche?

"....modern criticism is obliged to distinguish between the universal myth (or archetype) of almost all art and literature created before the nineteenth century and the personal symbolism of most modern creativity.  Curiously, this signal fact is assumed by the modern teacher to render three thousand years of art and literature inaccessible to the student.  Instead, students are encouraged to kick around in the private symbolic universes of Yeats, Joyce, and D.H. Lawrence.  Can anyone wonder why psychological survival seems so much more difficult in the modern era?"--David V. Hicks, Norms and Nobility

The Story of Dryope: written narration by Crayons

Book used:  The Age of Fable, by Thomas Bulfinch, chapter VIII.  Read out loud, written narration.  Spelling corrected at Crayons' request.

DRYOPE

Once upon a time there were two sisters Dryope and Iole.  Dryope had a husband Andraemon.  One day Dryope and Iole were out picking flowers and Dryope picked lotus and showed it to her baby.  With horror Iole saw where her sister had plucked the lotus was dripping blood all of a sudden Dryope's feet were rooted firmly to the spot she started growing branches the lotus had been no other than a nymph in disguise and now the gods were angry at her.  Andraemon ran out of the house.  Please take the baby and teach him to call me mother and then she fully became a tree the END.