a lesson learned

There is a land called Crete in the midst of the wine-dark sea, a fair land and a rich, begirt with water, and therein are many men innumerable and ninety
cities. (Odyssey, XIX)

So begins our history section today from a book by Dorothy Mills called The Book of the Ancient Greeks. All ears are open and careful hands intently draw into notebooks what the ears hear. Narrations of the paragraphs are thoughtful; CTM even goes on to tell the rest of the story from another book he has read. The next paragraph I read out is in fact this story. We read the other book too. (Wings by Jane Yolen) The drawings are quick yet precise. No dawdling today.

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