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mistresskayla-blog1 · 6 months ago

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Tooth First Into Her

Characters: Ray Levine x OC werewolf Jesula Paul

Lyn's Writing Event - Challenge Days - Day 30 (late submission)

May 30th: Challenge Days: Chupacabra

Characters: Ray Levine x OC Haitian Fem werewolf – Jesula Paul

Fandom: Richard Armitage – Ray Levine – Stay Close

The character of Ray Levine was created by Harlan Coben

The character of Jesula Paul was created by Kayla B Crowe

Word Count: 1.9k (P1)

Warnings: werewolf, shapeshifting, potential smut, chupacabra, blood thirst, full moon, goat death,

Location: Haiti, Caribbean (Insulated fantasy timeline)

The Chupacabra legend dates back to the 1980s when they were started to be seen in Puerto Rico, but many accounts from the local’s date earlier, as well as farther reaching. All through the Caribbean and even as far south as Chile, and as far north as Maine. The legend states that sightings of a dog like creature that fed off the goats, draining them of their blood like a vampire. Ray caught a whiff of this legend, and like many other expeditions he had been on, post Callie, he wanted to see this thing for himself. He booked a flight and headed for a sighting a message board said was “fresh” and “hot” in Haiti. Ray knew whatever he found down in Haiti would be worth the trip.

The message board accounts talked about likelihood during a full moon, so Ray made sure he landed and stayed for the duration of that event, four days in the warmth, sun and spirit of the islands. It was mid may in Haiti, the full moon fell on the evening of the 22nd. Ray flew in that afternoon from Newark, and about a day later he arrived in Port Au Prince, to a balmy 90 degrees, making him shed everything but a t-shirt when he got off the plane. And furthermore wish he owned more than 2 pairs of jeans. He popped into the shop and grabbed some cargo khaki shorts and kind of chortled at them, remembering the last time he wore khaki, in the desert with Simona. Glad to be out of the fray, and into something else, even if it was a wild goose chase by all accounts. Ray didn’t mind, he wanted to find the truth of the mysteries, stir up the natives and see what his lens could pick up.

Ray checked into his hotel room and dropped his stuff, looking out to the sea. A bar sat along the edge of the beach, so he took a little walk down to it. Music was playing an island tune, the kind that made you want to pull someone onto a dance floor and hold them close. Ray looked over at a young couple, doing just that, he snapped a couple shots and smiled in kind. The girl’s young face was etched along the chest of her lover’s shirt, framed in the light of the sunset. The sky against the lapping shore was bigger than he had ever seen in New Jersey. The night fell fast and after a few beers Ray could watch the moon rise from the sea like a Goddess just missing her lover in rendezvous. He caught what he could with his lens, and then just stared out into the reflections, and listened to the waves crash against the shore.

A women came into view, she was clad in skirts, and a hair wrap, that made her head billow against the moon sitting on the water. Her shadow, an etching upon its face. Ray started snapping again, from afar. Hypnotized by her form as it trailed farther and farther down the beach, until she was just a spec against the looming darkness of the jungle. He swears he could smell her on the wind, as it came towards him. Some kind of rich, earthy scent, that mixed with the sea breeze in an heady manner. It electrified him away from the bar and down the shoreline to the water.

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Jesula decided to take a walk on the beach that night, her hunger sated from some fresh local fare, she had found in the Port, by a little shack. It was getting late and the moon was rising. Another opportunity to test her mettle and see if she could change. She had become a loner because of her tribe’s rejection, and Jesula wanted more than anything to just know her true power, so she could go back to them. The life of a werewolf could be a lonely one, if you didn’t have your tribe to fall back on. Jesula wore her head wrapped, to conceal, as her ears started to punch through her thick black hair, when the moon rose to its place above the water. Her tail protruded from under her skirts, and started to sway with her hips as she walked.

She had the hunger that was for sure. In more ways than one, but Jesula had not been with anyone, since she was born into this awareness. The thought of laying with another werewolf terrified her, would she like it, would he lose control? She had heard stories, but what about if it was a human man? What if she changed him, then would it be easier? Could it be controlled? Too many questions and not enough answers. Jesula kept walking down the shoreline, focusing on her thoughts, and the taste of blood still in her mouth. She knew no matter what, men would taste different than goats.

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Ray trailed after her a little while, until he reached the edge of a rock face, and did not see her anywhere, but that scent still lingered in the rustling of the palm fronds. Hitting his senses and motivating him further. Ray walked into the jungle’s edge, in the dark, barely enough light from the resort to help him. The streetlights were further away, and as the scent drifted away, he felt himself fade as well. Ray stopped and shaking off his wanderlust, he turned around and headed back to the hotel.

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The next morning, Ray was, as usual passed out in his clothes in his bed, face first like a teenager. He rolled over, the breeze from his room coming through the natural windows. It was already humid today, and Ray peeled himself off his sheets and stumbled into a shower of cooler water. A little shave, and a fresh shirt, shorts, and oh lord, a pair of sandals. He was looking like a tourist for sure now, he chuckled to himself. “Oh if Fester could see me now” he said aloud.

Ray went into the hotel shop again, looking for some snacks and a map of the area, and stumbled upon a little semblance of bottles on a quaint display. He pulled one out, and read the label, “Vetiver”, he said as he read the bottle. He opened the stopper and took a whiff, yep, that was what he smelled last night on his patio. It flowed in the air as he watched the full moon rise. It was lemony, woody, and earthy with a smoky undertone, bred from the grounds, the rich earth of the region and just as potent as anything else he had imagined before stepping foot here. Just as potent as that woman on the beach last night, her siren’s call that propelled him down the shoreline to her. He hoped her ran into her again, at some point, even if its only at night. Ray paid for the map, some crisps, and the bottle, and headed down the streets towards a village called Petion-Ville.

Ray walked for about an hour, taking in the bright buildings, people and culture. His camera a flurry of clicks as life happened all around him that morning. He found an art gallery and stepped inside. The Galerie d’Art Nader, is a local gallery of artists. Ray looked around at all the fabulous local color, all the art and feeling inspired, he attempted to leave the Galerie and smelled the woman from the night before. This time he heard the lilt of a woman to the scent, and when he turned towards that sound, he saw her looking right at him. She was talking to someone else, but her sharp lavender eyes against her chocolate skin took his breath away. She didn’t smile at him, not right away, just held his gaze. She finished talking to the other woman he assumed was the owner and stepped towards him boldly.

“Is there anything that interests you?” Jesula asked.

Ray was momentarily stunned, he looked down at his camera, and then back up to her, “Oh, um, yes, but no. I wouldn’t have a place to put it. My walls are already full, but everything here, (he looked around before his eyes landed back on her) is beautiful.”

Jesula felt the heat on her neck when he locked eyes with her again. Something about him was different. She smiled a bit, “Thank you, my friend, owns this place, she is very proud to have so many local artists here.” She pointed to his camera, “Are you an artist as well?”

Ray looked at his camera again, putting the cap back on, “Oh, yeah. Of course. But I don’t paint, that is different type of creation. I am more of a documentarian. Observing life and then capturing it”. He thrust his hand out in the traditional fashion, and she took it, softly in her own. That electric motivation surged when they touched, and both of them felt it. They both visibly twitched and then retreated their mutual hands. “My name is Ray”, Ray said, Jesula looked up at his gaze again, “I am Jesula.” Putting her hand to her chest, fumbling with an amulet around her neck.

Ray found his boldness again, and asked curiously, “Are you working here, or can we, get a coffee?” He kind of chuckled because he wasn’t sure if he was messing up a custom or anything.

Jesula nodded, “We can go get some drinks, sure, let me just let her know I’m leaving.” Jesula walked away, her skirts swooshing, he noticed then some other bells were jingling on her hips. She made music as she moved, that was very attractive to his senses as well. Jesula swished back, and Ray put his hand out to escort her out. She giggled at him, lightly amused, and led him across the streets to the café. They sat down and engaged in conversation for a while, musing at each other, and the heat grew between them as the day grew warmer around them.

Leaving nothing up to chance, Ray asked her out to dinner later in the evening. Jesula accepted and offered to meet him at the bar by the Marriott where he was staying. Ray left her at the café and went back towards his hotel, taking a taxi this time. Jesula had given him some pointers on the best way to use a taxi in Port Au Prince. He was grateful when he was dropped off efficiently and with most of his cash still in his pocket.

Ray logged into his computer when he got back to his room and checked the message boards. Sure enough, someone had been tracking him, and said, “did you see the goat deaths in the area are higher during the full moon? Maybe that’s the connection.” Ray spoke out loud to the screen, “So I’m looking for goats?” he laughed. He typed that as he said it. The message chimed back, “No, but where they have loss, you will be on the trail to catch the infamous Chupacabra.” They are known to feast on the blood of goats, its what started the legend. Fay nodded, “I’ll let you know what I find.” He logged off and closed his laptop. Ticking his hands on the desk. He looked around the room, checking the time on the bedside clock. “So now what do I do?” he said to an empty room.

Part 2…planned. dripping in soon.

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Thanks to all the great writers that supported me through this challenge and those who commented and those who liked my work.

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lightdancer1 · 1 year ago

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Now that I'm done with this one, Ada Ferrer's history of Cuba is next:

Wrapped up the first in the set of many books I have accumulated, recently, and have not read. This one was originally on my wish list for this year but I got it for free when the local library palmed off its own books. It's a biography of one of those figures who rightfully would intimidate historians, a legend of an armed force who happens to embody much of that particular organization's self-perception....written by a Marine.

With that kind of foreboding obstacle it's actually a fairly balanced history, if sympathetic, and spares no words on the consequences of Puller's actions while noting the man never had the highest echelon of command and as such fell afoul of the errors and misjudgments of his superiors and was wrongly blamed for things that he did not do.

Equally it also notes that General Puller served in the sides of the Marine Corps and its history that tend to rightly be downplayed for equally rightly being seen as unsavory, namely the Banana Wars that led General Butler to do his 'war is a racket' speech. He was avid for combat, heedless of the costs of that avidness, ultimately incapable of the aspects of command that require more than charging at the enemy balls first, while never getting the training and until his very last years as a Marine any of the responsibility for it. As such the degree to which he can be held accountable for things he repeatedly asked for, was repeatedly denied, and developed a jaundiced view of precisely from that repeated denial out of sour grapes is actually a very valid question that should be answered.

None of this alters that at Pelileu his command of his battalion led to one of the bloodiest small-scale trainwrecks of a bloody war, or that there were prices that one pays for having the officers who like to get it bloody and fight with the enemy, prices that can equally be weighed in the balance scale against his superiors in the Second World War and the Korean War who embodied the other side of generalship and often with rather unfortunate results.

The ultimate view here hinges on the degree to which one likes Marines and to which one can forgive Puller for the role he played in some of the more unsavory actions of the armed forces with no regrets on this. Of course a cynic will note that so many of the people who would rightly balk at Puller's decisions turn blind eyes to murderers like Qassim Soleimaini and Marshal Zhukov's presiding over a massive pillaging and rape spree and Marshal Guderian's savage war of barbarism on the other side of that war, depending.

And for more relevance to contemporary events, Hamas openly saying "We want all the Jews dead" gets plenty of 'naw they don't really mean it' apologia from the people who would consider General Puller anathema but if their favorite fanatics want to call for an utter annihilation of a people, that's just a bit detail and entirely worthy of forgiveness. So as I said, it hinges on where one draws those lines. I ultimately mostly found it interesting for shining that very direct spotlight on what the US actually did in Haiti and Nicaragua, why it did it, and the limits and measures of US military power in resolving complicated political situations and why that had some relative success in this hemisphere versus utter failure in the Muslim world.

8/10.

#lightdancer comments on history #book reviews #biographies #us marine corps #banana wars #world war ii #korean war

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labelleperfumery · 1 month ago

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Diddy and Justin Bieber Appear Very Close in Series of Throwback Photos

Diddy and Justin Bieber hung out back in the day … but it was hard to gauge just how close the two celebs were … until now. TMZ has obtained rare archived photos of the music legends kicking back at two events … the 2010 Haiti Benefit Concert… from TMZ.com https://www.tmz.com/2024/10/04/diddy-justin-bieber-appear-close-old-photos/

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iamgabrisan · 7 years ago

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astonishinglegends · 4 years ago

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Ep 205: Terry Carnation's "Dark Air" and Rich Hatem

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– Scott’s remembrance of a Carl Sagan quote, which, turns out, probably originates from a parody impression of Carl Sagan

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We have a very special guest joining us tonight, metaphysical "astralnaut," philosopher of the liminal, "Pope of the Paranormal," and host of the AM Radio talk show Dark Air, Terry Carnation. Terry first got his start in the paranormal radio genre when unexpectedly thrust into taking over for another show. While working as a late-night rock n' roll Disc Jockey for an FM station in Buffalo, NY, in 1992, Reginald Wilcox, the host of the paranormal call-in show that aired after Terry's slot was mysteriously murdered while Terry was in the bathroom... or so he claims. In his unflappable sense of duty, apparently stronger than his sense of legal obligation, Terry immediately took over the role of consigliere for listeners stupefied by the supernatural. And in Terry's words, "that's how a legend was created." Now, after a three-year hiatus, Terry Carnation returns with a new podcast, also called Dark Air, available starting April 1, 2021, wherever podcasts are given away for free. While you may not have heard of him, there will be something uneasily familiar about his voice and visage. And the audience will come to know his strange power for tearing off the head of disbelief and reaching down deep into our souls to yank out the viscera of our darkest fears and mysteries. Wrapped around our interview with Terry, our good buddy Rich Hatem joins us once again to discuss his latest adventures and projects. We'll also con him into playing our version of a game show, in the spirit of America's NPR radio program Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! and Britain's Would I Lie to You? We'll tell Rich three outrageous paranormal stories, and he has to guess which one is fake. Please join us for an episode of inscrutable levity.

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atlanticcanada · 4 years ago

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How the Bluenose became one of the world's fastest boats and helped create the identity of a province

With rows of colourful buildings and historic tree lined streets, Lunenburg, a UNESCO World Heritage site, is a tourist magnet along Nova Scotia's south shore. Of all its attractions, one in particular lures visitors to the harbour town.

Sleek, 46 metres long, gleaming in black with yellow stripe, and on the stern, that immediately recognizable name, Bluenose ll.

Tied up at a waterfront wharf, it's really Bluenose 2.5, a near complete rebuild of the one constructed in the 1960s.

Decked out with the latest navigation equipment, and costing $24 million, the grandchild of the original is a modern, floating tourism calling card. A far cry from the schooner launched a century ago.

On March 26, 1921, a crowd gathered at Lunenburg's Smith and Rhuland Shipyard.

While the launch of a vessel wasn't unique, this promised to be unlike others they'd see slip into the cold ocean waters.

Bluenose was a blue collar vessel, built to fish cod on the Grand Banks. But it was designed to be something more; a racer.

Speed was always an asset, the first boat back sold its fish for the most money.

Though early in the 20th century, the International Fishermen's Race Trophy was the most prized catch of all.

In October of that year, Captain Angus Walters steered the vessel to a win in its first race, beating other Canadian and American boats.

A legend was born.

For 18 straight years, Bluenose couldn't be beat, winning every race it entered.

Dubbed the "Queen of the North Atlantic," the vessel came to symbolize Nova Scotia's dominance in shipbuilding and fishing, and became a point of pride for the province's people who are still known as worldwide as "Bluenosers."

Its exploits became so well known, its image was chosen to adorn the dime in 1937, and remains on it today.

But by 1942, the glory had faded, sail was replaced by steam, and despite efforts to keep it, the vessel was sold to haul cargo around the West Indies.

In a sad ending, four later years, it hit a reef off Haiti and sank.

Now a hundred years after its launch, Bluenose will be celebrated again. Year-long events, parties and tours aim to reignite the legend of Canada's floating ambassador.

It begins Friday morning. Bluenose100.ca is the home for the upcoming summer and sailing season celebrations. The first event begins 10 a.m. AST and later at 7 p.m. AST , songs and stories will stream to commemorate the sailing legend.

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smoothqueen · 5 years ago

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It’s the end of the 2010s Here’s some events i cherish, cry and some I wish I could forget!

2010- The 7.0 Haiti Earthquake caused massive devastation killing over 300,000 people and billions of dollars in damages. Easy A and Zombieland (I know it came out in 2009 but I first saw it in 2010) what a great time to be a Emma Stone fan! Blockbuster files for bankruptcy it was the end of an era for all video stores! The one that was right next to me for years is now a laundromat breaks my heart everytime I drive by there.

2011- The end of the Harry Potter franchise, my childhood heart!!! I think we can all agree after Jack and Jill Adam Sandler stopped trying, such a shame and he made me appreciate golf. Osama Bin Ladin is killed!

2012- The world didn’t end! The Sandy Hook shooting just 11 days before Christmas which over a dozen children and several adults would never get to celebrate with their loved ones again! Gun control has not changed since then, not even Congress was moved by Obama’s pleads and tears!

2013- Frozen breaks Disney records!! No I will not Let It Go! The death of Nelson Mandela. Rick and Morty airs and has taken over adult swim! Attack on Titan airs god I love anime, for awhile I thought wtf some kind of sick twisted version of Jack and the bean stalk?! Teen Titans Go was big a F*** You to my childhood Teen Titans!

2014- We lost an acting legend one who made us laugh and cry for so many years. “Genie, you’re free” We love you Robin Williams! The Ice Bucket Challenge was fun but a total waste of water. Korrasami is canon and breaks boundaries!

2015- Dragon Ball is back i fell in love with Beerus and Whis and I missed Vegeta! Short to say, GT never existed. Same sex marriage is legalized nation wide! A new Star Wars saga begins shouldn’t really be surprised it happens every 10 years or so but hey we finally got a female lead protagonist! I still can’t get Adele’s Hello outta my head and I don’t want to! MK X man I haven’t played an mk game since the second one I think!

2016- Leo DiCaprio wins his very first Oscar for best actor in The Revenant! The Orlando nightclub shooting was an act of hate against the LGBT community! Ugh I’m still disgusted and this an election that tore families apart, Donald Trump is elected President of the US, really hope 2019 will be his last year! The Powerpuff Girls reboot... WWHHHYYYYYY?!?!?! I got my first tattoo!

2017- Hugh Jackman’s last year as Wolverine aka Logan leaves us heartbroken yet honored, as a matter of fact the first time I saw his first X men movie was the first time I used a dvd! Man how time flies! I vow never to work in the fast food industry again! IT is better than the original don’t try to convince me otherwise I loved Tim Curry but the way Bill Skarsgard made the clown interact. That smile and lazy eye movement which were not CGI related, goosebumps for life there! I got another dog!

2018- Marvel’s Spider Man game best one since Spider Man 2! Stephen Hawking and Stan Lee pass away! “Mr. Stark I don’t feel so good”. Spider Man: Into The Spider-Verse. Yup it was hell of a year for Spider Man. Got my second tattoo. Spongebob creator Stephen McDannell Hillenburg passes away. Thank you Stephen for giving us such a loveable annoying relatable cartoon. Retro portable game stations like Atari and PlayStation are released!

2019- The long awaited Frozen 2 breaks records again! Screw that live action cgi emotionless Lion King remake! Yeah as you can tell I’m a big Frozen fan and proud of it! Toy Story 4 another part of my childhood ending. A lot of franchises ending or ended, Game Of Thrones, Star Wars, The Avengers, X Men, The Big Bang Theory, I’m not ready for Modern Family and Attack on Titan to end next year! Joaquin Phoenix’s Joker will go down in Joker history!! DC’s arrowverse Crisis on Infinite Earths is going to be the biggest crossover! Dyed my hair for the first time. Trump impeached!

Short list of what I’m looking forward to next year. The Last Of Us part 2, GTA 6 trailer hopefully, it’s the longest wait we’ve ever had for a new gta game, a new president, Frozen 2 on blu ray and a different position at work.

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Lore Episode 26: Brought Back (Transcript) - 25th January 2016

tw: racism, colonialism, live burial, slavery

Disclaimer: This transcript is entirely non-profit and fan-made. All credit for this content goes to Aaron Mahnke, creator of Lore podcast. It is by a fan, for fans, and meant to make the content of the podcast more accessible to all. Also, there may be mistakes, despite rigorous re-reading on my part. Feel free to point them out, but please be nice!

No one wants to die. If the human design was scheduled for a revision, that’s one of the features that would get an overhaul. Our mortality has been an obsession since the dawn of humanity itself – humans long for ways to avoid death, or at least make it bearable. Some cultures have practically moved heaven and earth doing so. Thousands of years ago, the Egyptians built enormous stone structures in order to house their dead and ensure them a place in the afterlife. They perfected the art of embalming so that even after death, their bodies might be ready for a new existence in a new place. Death is a reality for all of us, whether we like it or not. Young or old, rich or poor, healthy or sick, life is one long journey down a road, and we walk until its over. Some think they see the light at the end of it all while others hope for darkness, and that’s where the mystery of it all comes in: no one knows what’s on the other side. We just know that the proverbial walk ends at some point, and maybe that’s why we spend so much time guessing at it, building story and myth and belief around this thing we can’t put our finger on. What would be easier, some say, is if we just didn’t die, if we somehow went on forever. It’s impossible, but we dream of it anyway. No one returns from the grave… do they? Most sane, well-adjusted people would say no, but stories exist that say otherwise, and these stories aren’t new. They’ve been around for thousands of years and span multiple cultures, and like their subject matter these stories simply refuse to die. One reason for that, as hard as it is to believe, is because some of those stories appear to be true. Depending on where you look, and who you ask, there are whispers of those who beat the odds. Sometimes the journey doesn’t end after all. Sometimes, the dead really do walk. I’m Aaron Mahnke, and this is Lore.

The quintessential zombie movie, the one that all the commentators say was responsible for putting zombies on the map nearly 50 years ago, was George A. Romero’s Night of the Living Dead. The creatures that Romero brought to the big screen managed to influence generations of film makers, giving us the iconic zombie that we see today in television shows like The Walking Dead. The trouble is, Romero never used the word “zombie” to describe the creatures from his landmark film. Instead, they were “ghouls”, a creature borrowed from Arabian folklore. According to the mythology, ghouls are demons who eat the dead and, because of that, are traditionally found in graveyards. But Romero’s ghouls were not the first undead creatures to hunger for the flesh and blood of the living. Some think that honour falls to the Odyssey, the epic Greek poem written by Homer nearly 3000 years ago. In the story, there’s a scene where Odysseus needs to get some information from a long-dead prophet named Tiresias. To give the spirit strength to speak, Odysseus feeds him blood. In a lot of ways, the creatures we think of today as zombies are similar to the European tales of the revenant. They’ve gone by many names – the ancient Irish called them Neamh-Mhairbh, meaning “the undead”; in Germany they are the Wiedergänger, “the ones who walk again”; and in Nordic mythology, they’re called the draugr. The name “revenant” itself is Latin and means “the returned”. The basic idea is pretty easy to guess from that – revenants were those who were once dead, but returned to haunt and terrorize their neighbours and family. It might sound like fantasy to our modern sensibilities, but some people really did think that this could happen.

Historians in the Middle Ages wrote about revenant activity as if it were fact. One man, William of Newburgh, wrote in 1190 that, and I quote, “It would not be easy to believe that the corpses of the dead should sally from their graves, and should wander about to the terror or destruction of the living, did not frequent examples, occurring in our own times, suffice to establish this fact, to the truth of which there is abundant testimony. Were I to write down all the instances of this kind which I have ascertained to have befallen in our times, the undertaking would be beyond measure, laborious, and troublesome”. Newburgh goes on to wonder why the ancient writers never mentioned events like these, but doesn’t seem to take that as proof that revenants are pure fantasy. They mentioned all sorts of boring things, mundane and unimportant, so why not the unnatural and unusual? He was, of course, wrong – the ancient Greeks did have certain beliefs surrounding the dead and their ability to return to haunt the living, but to them it was much more complicated, and each revenant came back with its own unique purpose. You see, the Greco-Roman culture believed that there was a gap between the date of someone’s actual death and their intended date of death. Remember, this was a culture that believed in the Moirai – the Fates – who had a plan for everyone. So, for example, a farmer might be destined to die in his 80s from natural causes, but he might instead die in an accident at the market or in his field. People who died early, according to the legends, were doomed to wander the land of the living as spirits until the day of their intended death arrived. Still with me? Good. So, what the Greeks believed was that it was possible to control those wandering spirits – all you needed to do was make a curse tablet, something written on clay or tin or even parchment, and then bury it in the person’s grave. Like a key in the ignition of a car, this tablet would empower someone to control the wandering dead. Now, it might sound like the world’s creepiest Martha Stewart how-to project, but to the Greeks magic like this was a powerful part of their belief system. The dead weren’t really gone, and because of that they could serve a purpose. Unfortunately, that’s not an attitude that was unique to the Greeks, and in the right culture, at the right time, under the right pressure, that idea can be devastating.

In Haiti, the vast majority of the people there are genetically connected to West Africa to some degree, up to 95% according to some studies. It’s a remnant of a darker time, when slavery was legal, and millions of Africans were pulled from their homes and transported across the Atlantic to work the sugar plantations that filled the Spanish coffers. We tend to imagine African slaves being shipped to the new world with no possessions beside the clothing on their backs, but they came with their beliefs, with their customs and traditions, and with centuries of folklore and superstition. They might not have carried luggage filled with precious heirlooms, but they held the most important pieces of their identity in their minds and hearts. No one can take that away. There are a few ideas that need to be understood about this transplanted culture. First, they believed that the soul and the body were connected, but also that death could be a moment of separation between the two. Not always, but it could be – I’ll explain more about that in a moment. Second, they lived with a hatred and fear of slavery. Slavery, of course, took away their freedom, it took away their power. They no longer had control over their lives, their dreams, or even their own bodies. Whether they liked it or not, they were doomed to endure horribly difficult labour for the rest of their lives; only death would break the chains and set them free. Third, that freedom wasn’t guaranteed. While most Africans dreamed of returning to their homeland in the afterlife, there were some who wanted to get there quicker. Suicide was common in colonial Haiti, but it was also frowned upon. In fact, it was believed that those who ended their own life wouldn’t be taken back to Africa at all. Instead, they would be punished. The penalty, it was said, was eternal imprisonment inside their own body, without control or power over themselves. It was, in a sense, just like their own life. To the slaves of Haiti, hell was just more slavery, but a slavery that went on forever. These bodies and trapped souls had a name in their culture: the zombie. It was first recorded in 1872, when a linguistic scholar recorded a zombie as, and I quote, “a phantom or ghost, not infrequently heard in the southern states in nurseries and among the servants”. The name, it turns out, has African roots as well. In the Congo they use the word nzambi, which means the spirit of a dead person. It’s related to two other words that both mean “god” and “fetish” – fetish in the sense of manufacturing a thing, a creature that has been made. The walking dead, at least according to Haitian lore, are real.

What did these zombie look like? Well, thanks to Zora Neale Hurston, we have a first-hand account. Hurston was an African American author, known for her novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, and regarded as one of the pillars of the Harlem Renaissance. And it was while researching folklore during a trip to Haiti in 1936 that she encountered one. In her book Tell my Horse, Hurston recounts what happened. “I had the rare opportunity to see and touch an authentic case”, she wrote. “I listened to the broken noises in its throat.... If I had not experienced all of this in the strong sunlight of a hospital yard, I might have come away from Haiti interested but doubtful. But I saw this case of Felicia Felix-Mentor which was vouched for by the highest authority. So I know that there are Zombies in Haiti. People have been called back from the dead. The sight was dreadful. That blank face with the dead eyes. The eyelids were white all around the eyes as if it had been burned with acid. There was nothing you could say to her or get from her except by looking at her, and the sight of this wreckage was too much to endure for long”. Wreckage. I can’t think of another word with as much beauty and horror as that, in the context. Something was happening in Haiti, and the result was wreckage, lives broken and torn apart by something – but what? The assumption might be that these people had all attempted suicide, but suicide is common in many cultures, not just in Haiti. When you dig deeper, though, it’s possible to uncover the truth, and in this case, the truth is much darker than we like to believe. Zombies, it turns out, can be created.

On the night of April 30th, 1962, a man walked into Albert Schweitzer Hospital in Haiti. He was sick and complained of body aches, a fever and, most recently, coughing fits that brought blood up from his lungs. Naturally, the medical staff were concerned, and they admitted him for tests and treatment. This man, Clairvius Narcisse, was seen by a number of medical doctors but his condition quickly deteriorated. One of his sisters, Angelina, was there at his bedside, and according to her his lips turned blue and he complained to her about a tingling sensation all over his body. But despite the hospital’s best efforts, Narcisse died the next day. Two doctors, one American and one American-trained, each confirmed his death. The man’s sister, Angelina, signed the death certificate after confirming the man’s identity. Because she couldn’t read or write, she did so by pressing her thumbprint onto the paper, and then his family began the painful process of burying their loved one and trying to move on. Death, as always, is a part of life; never a pleasant one, but a part nonetheless. Over 18 years later, in 1981, Angelina Narcisse was walking through the market in her village, something she did nearly every day. She knew the faces of each vendor, she knew the scents and the sounds that filled the space there, but when she looked down the dirt road toward the small crowd of people something frightened her, and she screamed. There, walking toward her, was her brother Clairvius. He was, of course, older now, but it was him. She would have recognised him anywhere, and when he finally approached her and named himself with a childhood nickname, any doubt she might have had melted away. What followed was a whirlwind of revelations as Clairvius told his sister what had happened to him, and it all started, he said, in the hospital room. According to him, his last moments in the bed there were dark, but fully aware. He could no longer see anyone, and he couldn’t move, but he remembered hearing the doctor pronounce him dead. He remembered the sound of his sister weeping. He even remembered the rough, cotton sheet being pulled up and over his face. But awareness continued on to his funeral, where he claimed to hear the procession. He even pointed to a scar on his face – he claimed that it was the result of one of the coffin nails cutting him. Later, the family brought in a psychiatrist, who performed a series of tests on Clairvius to see is he was a fraud, but the man passed with flying colours, answering questions that no one but Clairvius himself could have known. In an addition, over 200 friends and family members vouched for the man’s identity. This, all of them confirmed, was Clairvius Narcisse.

So, what happened to him? According to Clairvius himself, he was poisoned by his brother over a property dispute. How? He wasn’t sure, but shortly after his burial, a group of men dug up his coffin and pulled him free. That’s a thought worth locking away deep in the back of your brain, by the way: trapped inside a coffin beneath the earth, blind and paralysed, cold and scared. It’s a wonder the man didn’t go insane. The men who dug him up were led by a priest called a Bokor. The men chained Clairvius and then guided him away to a sugar plantation, where he was forced to work alongside others in a similar state of helplessness. Daily doses of a mysterious drug kept them all unable to resist or leave. According to his story, he managed to escape two years later, but fearing what his brother might do to him if he were to show up alive, he avoided returning home. It was only the news of his brother’s death many years later that coaxed him out of hiding. The story of Clairvius Narcisse has perplexed scientists and historians for decades. In the 1980s, Harvard sent an ethno-botanist named Wade Davis to investigate the mysterious drug, and the result of his trip was a book called The Serpent and the Rainbow, which would go on to be a New York Times bestseller as well as a Hollywood movie, but few agree on the conclusions. Samples of the drug that Wade collected have all been disproven, no illegal sugar plantations staffed by zombie slaves has ever been discovered, and the doctors have been accused of misreading the symptoms and prematurely declaring the man dead – there are so many doubts. To the people closest to him, though, the facts are solid. Clairvius Narcisse died, his family watched his burial in the cemetery, he was mourned and missed, and 18 years later he came back into their lives. The walking dead: medical mishap or the result of Haitian black magic? We may never know for sure.

Stories of the walking dead are everywhere these days. It’s as if we’ve traded in our obsession with extending our life and resigned to the fact that normal death, the kind where we die and stay dead, might be better. We fear death because it means the loss of control, the loss of purpose and freedom. Death, in the eyes of many people, robs us of our identity and replaces it with finality. It’s understandable, then, how slavery can be viewed through that same lens. It removes a person’s ability to make decisions for themselves – it turns them, in a sense, into nothing more than a machine for the benefit of another person. But what if there really are individuals out there, the Bokor and evil priests, who have discovered a way to manufacture their own walking dead, who have perfected the art of enslaving a man or women deeper than any slave owner might have managed before, to rob them of their very soul and bind them to an afterlife of tireless, ceaseless labour? In February of 1976, Francine Illeus was admitted to her local hospital in Haiti. She said she felt weak and light-headed. Her digestive system was failing, and her stomach ached. The doctors there treated her and then released her. Several days later, she passed away and was buried in the local graveyard. She had only been 30 years old. Three years later, Francine’s mother received a call from a friend a few miles away. She needed her to come to the local marketplace there, and said it was urgent. Francine’s mother didn’t know what the trouble was, but she made the journey as quickly as she could. Once there, she was told that a woman had been found in the market. She was emaciated, catatonic, and refused to move from where she was squatting in the corner, head down, hands laced over her face. The woman, it turned out, was Francine Illeus. Her mother brought her home and tried to help her, but Francine seemed to be gone. She was there in body, but there was very little spirit left. Subsequent doctors and psychiatrists have spent time with Francine, but with very little progress to show for it. On a whim, Francine’s mother had the coffin exhumed. She had to see for herself if this woman, little more than a walking corpse, truly was her daughter. Yes, the woman had the same scar on her forehead that her daughter had, yes, they looked alike, yes, others recognised her as Francine, but she needed to know for sure. When the men pulled the coffin out of the earth, it was heavy, too heavy, they murmured, to be empty. More doubtful by the minute, Francine’s mother asked them to open it, and when the last nail had been pulled free from the wood, the lid was lifted and cast aside. The coffin wasn’t empty after all – it was full of rocks.

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CANADA'S WALK OF FAME CELEBRATES 20 YEARS OF CANADIAN EXCELLENCE AND ANNOUNCES 2018 INDUCTEES

July 23, 2018

Canada's Walk of Fame Celebrates 20 Years of Canadian Excellence and Announces 2018 Inductees Outstanding Group of Canadians to be Inducted in 20th Anniversary Year Canada’s Walk of Fame Awards Show Event to be held at the Sony Centre December 1, 2018 and set to air later in the month on CTV (Toronto, ON) Monday, July 23, 2018 – Canada’s Walk of Fame announced its 2018 Inductees today. The Inductees represent the organization’s five pillars of recognition: Sports and Athletics, Philanthropy and Humanities, Arts and Entertainment, Business and Entrepreneurship, and Science and Technology. Inductions will be held at the Canada’s Walk of Fame Awards show at the Sony Centre for the Performing Arts in Toronto on December 1, 2018, followed by a 20th Anniversary Gala celebration to be held at the Fairmont Royal York. The show will be broadcast in December on CTV.

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The 2018 Canada’s Walk of Fame Inductees are:

• Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir (Sports and Athletics) – The most decorated figure skaters in Olympic history. They have won the hearts and minds of people across Canada and around the world with their athleticism, artistry, and chemistry on the ice.

• Andrea Martin (Arts and Entertainment) – Tony and Emmy Award-winning actress, singer, author, and comedian known for her roles in Pippin on Broadway, My Big Fat Greek Wedding, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, The Good Fight, and SCTV.

“Now, more than ever, we are embracing and celebrating our unique and strong Canadian identity,” said Jeffrey Latimer, CEO of Canada’s Walk of Fame. “Canada thrives because of its people, and Canada’s Walk of Fame is working to inspire, empower, and recognize excellence in our country. Each of our Inductees this year has a different story of success, of giving back, and overcoming obstacles to reach their goals. We will tell more of these stories as we move through our 20th anniversary – the inspiration and path to success, not just the success itself.” “We are honored to bring our viewers across the country the opportunity to engage with these amazing Inductees when the CANADA’S WALK OF FAME AWARDS broadcast airs on CTV in December,” said Mike Cosentino, President, Content and Programming, Bell Media. Canada’s Walk of Fame has recognized Canadians who have excelled on national and international stages in their respective fields, including music, sports, film and television, literary, visual and performing arts, science, innovation, philanthropy, and social justice. In its 20th year, the organization is deepening its commitment and broadening its impact across Canada with new initiatives including Hometown Stars, presented by Cineplex (where Inductees receive stars in Toronto and in their hometowns), and expanded existing programs like the RBC Emerging Musician Program in order to mean more to more people more often. CTV is the broadcast partner of Canada’s Walk of Fame. CANADA’S WALK OF FAME AWARDS will air on CTV and CTV GO in December. John Brunton, Lindsay Cox, Jeffrey Latimer, and Randy Lennox are Executive Producers of CANADA’S WALK OF FAME AWARDS. For a complete list of Inductees, along with more information on Canada’s Walk of Fame visit: www.canadaswalkoffame.com.

2018 Inductees Twitter @cmdr_hadfield, @tessavirtue, @scottmoir, @iamandreamartin, @AndyKimMusic, @joanneliu_MSF, @sethrogen, @evandgoldberg

2018 Inductees Instagram @colchrishadfield, @tessavirtue17, @scottmoir14, @iamandreamartin, @sethrogen

CWOF Twitter @CWOFame #CanadaThrives, #CWOF2018

CWOF Instagram @cwofame #CanadaThrives, #CWOF2018

Web Link www.canadaswalkoffame.com

About Canada’s Walk of Fame

Now celebrating its 20th anniversary, Canada’s Walk of Fame is a national platform that celebrates Canadian achievement at the highest level in many fields, fueling our sense of Canadian pride and inspiring the next generation to follow in their footsteps. Canada’s Walk of Fame is the foremost honour for cultural, entrepreneurial, athletic, philanthropic and science/technology excellence in Canada. Current programs include the RBC Emerging Musician Program, Canada’s Walk of Fame Hometown Stars, presented by Cineplex, and the nationally televised broadcast designated by the CRTC as a program of national interest. Founded in 1998 by Peter Soumalias, Bill Ballard, Dusty Cohl and Gary Slaight, CWOF has inducted 173 Canadians to date, with their stars having a permanent place of tribute on the streets of Toronto’s Entertainment District. For a complete list of Inductees along with more information on Canada’s Walk of Fame visit: www.canadaswalkoffame.com

Canada’s Walk of Fame gratefully acknowledges the support of its 2018 Partners: Cineplex Entertainment, Slaight Communications, RBC, Bell Media, Air Canada, Fairmont Hotels & Resorts and its first Friend of Canada’s Walk of Fame, MLSE.

Canada’s Walk of Fame is a registered charity. Charitable Registration Number 889896924RR0001.

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CANADA'S WALK OF FAME CELEBRATES 20 YEARS OF CANADIAN EXCELLENCE AND ANNOUNCES 2018 INDUCTEES

Tessa Virtue & Scott Moir

Year Inducted: 2018 Pillar of Excellence: Sports & Athletics Born: Tessa May 17, 1989 Scott September 2, 1987 Birth Place: London, Ontario

Bio:

Tessa and Scott are the most successful Canadian ice dance team in history, being the first North Americans to win the Olympic Gold Medal for ice dance at the 2010 Vancouver Olympic Games. They were also the youngest, and the first team to win a gold medal at their first Olympic Games. In addition to their three Olympic medals, they have won four World Championships (three senior and one junior), three Four Continents Championships, eight Canadian Championships (seven senior and one junior), and six Skate Canada International titles. Additionally, they currently hold world records for highest score in original and short dance, as well as combined total score. In February, 2018, the pair earned two gold medals – and the hearts of Canadians, and people around the world – at the Olympic Winter Games in Pyeongchang, South Korea.

Interesting Facts:

Tessa and Scott’s ice dance partnership spans more than 20 years. Scott started skating at the age of three because his mom was at the arena all the time. Tessa started skating when she was six because she didn't want to be the only one in her class who couldn't skate.

(Toronto, ON) Monday, July 23, 2018 – Canada’s Walk of Fame announced its 2018 Inductees today. The Inductees represent the organization’s five pillars of recognition: Sports and Athletics, Philanthropy and Humanities, Arts and Entertainment, Business and Entrepreneurship, and Science and Technology. Inductions will be held at the Canada’s Walk of Fame Awards show at the Sony Centre for the Performing Arts in Toronto on December 1, 2018, followed by a 20th Anniversary Gala celebration to be held at the Fairmont Royal York. The show will be broadcast in December on CTV.

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The 2018 Canada’s Walk of Fame Inductees are:

• Col. Chris Hadfield (Science and Technology) – The first Canadian to walk in space, the first Canadian spaceship commander, a New York Times bestselling author, YouTube sensation, and renowned speaker. • Leonard Cohen (Legend Inductee) – Iconic poet, singer-songwriter, and novelist respected and loved worldwide, whose classic songs include “Suzanne”, “Bird on a Wire”, and “Hallelujah”. • Andy Kim (Arts and Entertainment) – Award-winning singer-songwriter whose career has flourished for 50 years. He is best known for hits including “Baby, I Love You”, “Sugar Sugar” and “Rock Me Gently”, and has sold over 30 million records. • Dr. Joanne Liu (Philanthropy and Humanities) – As International President of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF/Doctors Without Borders) since 1 October, 2013, Dr. Liu has provided support after the tsunami in Indonesia, assisted people affected by the earthquake and cholera epidemic in Haiti, and worked with Somali refugees in Kenya amongst many other crises. • Seth Rogen & Evan Goldberg (Arts and Entertainment) – These childhood friends have collaborated to bring their unique and hilarious brand of comedy to people around the world through box office and television hits including Superbad and Sausage Party. • Jimmy Pattison (Business and Entrepreneurship) – Entrepreneur, investor, and philanthropist, Jimmy rose from selling vegetable seeds to building a business empire with The Jim Pattison Group, Canada’s second largest private company. “Now, more than ever, we are embracing and celebrating our unique and strong Canadian identity,” said Jeffrey Latimer, CEO of Canada’s Walk of Fame. “Canada thrives because of its people, and Canada’s Walk of Fame is working to inspire, empower, and recognize excellence in our country. Each of our Inductees this year has a different story of success, of giving back, and overcoming obstacles to reach their goals. We will tell more of these stories as we move through our 20th anniversary – the inspiration and path to success, not just the success itself.” “We are honored to bring our viewers across the country the opportunity to engage with these amazing Inductees when the CANADA’S WALK OF FAME AWARDS broadcast airs on CTV in December,” said Mike Cosentino, President, Content and Programming, Bell Media. Canada’s Walk of Fame has recognized Canadians who have excelled on national and international stages in their respective fields, including music, sports, film and television, literary, visual and performing arts, science, innovation, philanthropy, and social justice. In its 20th year, the organization is deepening its commitment and broadening its impact across Canada with new initiatives including Hometown Stars, presented by Cineplex (where Inductees receive stars in Toronto and in their hometowns), and expanded existing programs like the RBC Emerging Musician Program in order to mean more to more people more often. CTV is the broadcast partner of Canada’s Walk of Fame. CANADA’S WALK OF FAME AWARDS will air on CTV and CTV GO in December. John Brunton, Lindsay Cox, Jeffrey Latimer, and Randy Lennox are Executive Producers of CANADA’S WALK OF FAME AWARDS. For a complete list of Inductees, along with more information on Canada’s Walk of Fame visit: www.canadaswalkoffame.com.

2018 Inductees Twitter @cmdr_hadfield, @tessavirtue, @scottmoir, @iamandreamartin, @AndyKimMusic, @joanneliu_MSF, @sethrogen, @evandgoldberg

2018 Inductees Instagram @colchrishadfield, @tessavirtue17, @scottmoir14, @iamandreamartin, @sethrogen

CWOF Twitter @CWOFame #CanadaThrives, #CWOF2018

CWOF Instagram @cwofame #CanadaThrives, #CWOF2018

#tessa and scott #off ice #honor #canada's walk of fame 2018 #so this is pretty fucking cool #announced today #so it should be new?#lol anon i know it's factually wrong but i can't fix that

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10 Interesting Novels

¨ How to drown in a glass of water¨ by Angie cruz

Cara Romero thought she would work at the factory of little lamps for the rest of her life. But when, in her mid-50s, she loses her job in the Great Recession, she is forced back into the job market for the first time in decades. Set up with a job counselor, Cara instead begins to narrate the story of her life.

¨ Clap when you land¨ by Elizabeth Acevedo

Camino Rios lives for the summers when her father visits her in the Dominican Republic. But this time, on the day when his plane is supposed to land, Camino arrives at the airport to see crowds of crying people…

¨After Life¨ by Julia Alvarez

Antonia Vega, the immigrant writer at the center of Afterlife, has had the rug pulled out from under her. She has just retired from the college where she taught English when her beloved husband, Sam, suddenly dies.

¨ The secret footprints¨ by Julia Alvarez

The Dominican legend of the ciguapas, creatures who lived in underwater caves and whose feet were on backward so that humans couldn't follow their footprints, is reinvented by renowned author Julia Alvarez.

¨Neruda on the park¨ by Cleyvis Natera

The Guerreros have lived in North Park, a predominantly Dominican part of New York City, for twenty years. When demolition begins on a neighboring tenement, Eusebia, an elder of the community, takes matters into her own hands by devising an increasingly dangerous series of schemes to stop construction of the luxury condos.

¨ Pirate Hunters treasure , obsession and the search for a legendary pirate ship¨ by RObert Kurson

Finding and identifying a pirate ship is the hardest thing to do under the sea. But two men—John Chatterton and John Mattera—are willing to risk everything to find the Golden Fleece, the ship of the infamous pirate Joseph Bannister. At large during the Golden Age of Piracy in the seventeenth century, Bannister’s exploits would have been more notorious than Blackbeard’s, more daring than Kidd’s, but his story, and his ship, have been lost to time.

¨Song of the water saints¨ by Nelly Rosario

"The circle of myth, history, longing, and grief in "Song of the Water Saints" will envelop the reader as it does the lives of Nelly Rosario's beautifully realized characters."

--Maureen Howard, author of "A Lover's Almanac"

Poetic, transporting, and heartbreaking, this debut novel traces the lives of three generations of courageous Dominican women.

¨ The Farming of Bones¨ by Edwidge Danticat

The Farming of Bones begins in 1937 in a village on the Dominican side of the river that separates the country from Haiti. Amabelle Desir, Haitian-born and a faithful maidservant to the Dominican family that took her in when she was orphaned, and her lover Sebastien, an itinerant sugarcane cutter, decide they will marry and return to Haiti at the end of the cane season.

¨Tentacle¨ By Rita Indiana

Lucked from her life on the streets of post-apocalyptic Santo Domingo, young maid Acilde Figueroa finds herself at the heart of a Santería prophecy: only she can travel back in time and save the ocean – and humanity – from disaster. But first she must become the man she always was – with the help of a sacred anemone.

¨The feast of the goat¨ by Mario Vargas Llosa

Haunted all her life by feelings of terror and emptiness, forty-nine-year-old Urania Cabral returns to her native Dominican Republic - and finds herself reliving the events of 1961, when the capital was still called Trujillo City and one old man terrorized a nation of three million people.

All from https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/dominican-republic

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Planning:

Read Across America was a success for the school last year. When planning for this year, a student asked if we could read a book about her country and that’s how this year’s plan was conceived. This year Read Across America will go “global” with books selected from other countries.

Students will have a passport that will get “stamped” as they travel through the books from different countries. The rotations will happen on Monday, February 28th through Friday, March 4th. Students will hear a different book in each of the following rotations:

homeroom teacher (will possibly read a different book each day)

music teacher

PE coach

librarian

art teacher

computer teacher

parent volunteers if applicable in the class

Promotion:

The event is being announced during morning announcements beginning a week before the event. Flyers/posters are also posted in hallways around the school and in the library.

Preparations:

Librarian will locate books in the collection to represent as many countries as possible. See list:

Australia - Where the Forest Meets the Sea by Jeannie Baker

Ukraine - Luba and the Wren by Patricia Polacco

Germany - Mercedes and the Chocolate Pilot by Margot Theis Raven (true story)

Jamaica - The Chalk Doll by Charlotte Pomerantz E POM - Anderson Library

Ghana - The Spider Weaver - A Legend of Kente Cloth by Margaret Musgrove

Mexico - A Gift from Abuela by Cecilia Ruiz

Iraq - Silent Music A Story of Baghdad by James Rumford (maybe older kids) OR Kunkush - The True Story of a Refugee Cat by Mame Ventura

Kenya - Wangari’s Trees of Peace: A True Story from Africa

Nigeria - When the sky is Far Away ( A Nigerian folktale) - at Neal Library

Kurdistan - The Hungry Coat (A Tale from Turkey) by Demi

India - A Basket of Bangles (How a Business Begins) by Ginger Howard

Guatemala- My Pig Amarillo by Satomi Ichikawa (younger)

Panama - Conejito: A Folktale from Panama by Margaret MacDonald (Nancy Neal)

Palestine - Tunjur Tunjur Tunjur ( A Palestinian Folktale) - E MAC Spencer Elementary

Egypt - The Day of Ahmed’s Secret (good for idea of culture) by Florence Parry Heide or What’s the Matter habibi?(you can tell it is Egypt but doesn’t really mention it) By Betsy Lewin

Belize - Great Blue hole 550 LON by Martha London - Martha Reid

Puerto Rico - The Secret Footprints by Julia Alvarez

Haiti*****- Please, Malese by Amy Macdonald

Paraguay *****- Ada’s Violin by Susan Hood

Sudan - Nya’s Long Walk - Norwood ES (E PAR)

Poland - Babuska Baba Yoga (E-POL)

China - Lon Popo 398.2 you or Two of Everything (398.21 HON)

Canada - The Snow Bear (E STA)

Korea - The Green Frogs: a Korean Folktale (398.2 HEO)

Peru - Run Little Chaski; an Inka Trail Adventure (E LLa)

England - Leon and Bob (E JAM)

France - Pretty Minnie in Paris (E STE)

Norway - Cecil the Pet Glacier (E HAR)

Ireland - O’Sullivan Stew: A Tale Cooked Up in Ireland (E TAL)

Japan - Three Samurai Cats - 398.2 KIM

Librarian will plan the times when students will read/hear books. Using the CLAMP (computer, library, art, music, PE) rotations allows students to experience more books.

Teachers will come in and choose the books they want to read.

Librarian will create a “passport” for the students to get stamped as they “travel” the world through books.

Make copies of the passports.

Explain the process to the teachers.

Procedures:

teachers will choose books to read

teachers will choose stamps to represent the country or will initial/check off the countries in the passports

teachers will use a world map to show the students the location of the represented country

read aloud to the class and show illustrations

short discussion and/or activity related to the book

stamp the matching country on the students’ “passports”

Payoff:

Students will experience stories from different countries around the world and will experience different cultures. In the process of reading and discussing the books, students will experience and appreciate the love of reading!

#Multiple Day #Elementary

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