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The lumberjack's beard
Big Jim Hickory is a very good lumberjack but begins to worry when his tree-felling causes his woodland friends to lose their homes. So he decides to take quick action to find them a new place to live. Luckily, Jim comes up with a creative idea that will change the way they share the forest and they way they all define home.
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The Fading of the World: Tolkien's Ecology and Loss in \The Lord of the Rings\
The purpose of the present article is to isolate and define a prominent characteristic of mythopoeic fantasy, the attempt to reawaken the numinous consciousness, which in the hands of J. R. R. Tolkien, serves to provide a revisioning of the human relationship with the natural world. By analyzing Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, the article shows that mythopoeic fantasy offers the reader a unique religious response to the environment. This religious response is best understood in the context of Rudolf Otto's influential work The Idea of the Holy published in 1919. By analyzing key characters and settings in The Lord of the Rings in terms of Otto's descriptions of \"awe\" and Tolkien's concept of \"recovery,\" the text allows readers to revise their perceptions of the natural world.
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The tree : a fable
The tree. Home to a family of birds in their nest, squirrels in their drey and rabbits in their burrow. But what happens to the animals when a man and woman decide to cut it down and use it for their dream house? Can the tree be home to both the animals and the humans?
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How Engagement Strategies and Literature Circles Promote Critical Response in a Fourth-Grade, Urban Classroom
Long and Gove discuss how engagement strategies and literature circles promote critical response in a fourth-grade, urban classroom. They combined rich, provocative literature with two interrelated methodologies that has the potential to challenge, arouse interest, and awaken in students a passion for reading and imagining to promote what they call critical response.
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If not for Anne Frank’s diary, the chestnut tree that stood behind 263 Prinsengracht in Amsterdam would have lived and died unnoticed during the almost 180 years of its life. But once news spread that this tree was ailing, it acquired a life of its own—moreover, a life that seems destined to continue in perpetuity. Alive or dead, the Anne Frank Tree, as it has come to be known, has become the most protean of metaphors. Many people have found meaning and solace in the tree in ways they never seem to have found in the diary, although the
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