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Retells a part of the Odyssey in which Odysseus and his men, returning from the Land of the Dead determined to sail home to Ithaca, encounter Scylla, the six-headed monster, and Charybdis, the deadly whirlpool.Tags
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The Percy Jackson series is HIGH INTEREST to 4th-5th graders right now, and some of my 8th graders are even into it. My son is a high 3 in ELA, but this couldn't be an independent read for him; I read it aloud. This is the case with two other families with whom I'm friends who have 4th grade daughters.
I'm using the Tales from the Odyssey series by Pope Osborne as independent reads (HIGH interest for my son) and they are just right for him as a 4th grader, but they're short like the Treehouse books, but full of gore and horror appropriate for 4th grade boys. With this series, he's building background knowledge to apply to all of the great things that happen in the Percy Jackson series. I do recommend that a 4th-5th show more grade elementary classroom have a Percy Jackson read-aloud with some Tales from the Odyssey independent read or lit groups, really. Those books are just right for teaching vocab in context skills. Everything is really simplified but there is ample challenging vocabulary in just the right places. I couldn't be happier with the way it's working out. I"m basically having ELA class at home with my son, and I'm seeing results. show less
The Percy Jackson series is HIGH INTEREST to 4th-5th graders right now, and some of my 8th graders are even into it. My son is a high 3 in ELA, but this couldn't be an independent read for him; I read it aloud. This is the case with two other families with whom I'm friends who have 4th grade daughters.
I'm using the Tales from the Odyssey series by Pope Osborne as independent reads (HIGH interest for my son) and they are just right for him as a 4th grader, but they're short like the Treehouse books, but full of gore and horror appropriate for 4th grade boys. With this series, he's building background knowledge to apply to all of the great things that happen in the Percy Jackson series. I do recommend that a 4th-5th show more grade elementary classroom have a Percy Jackson read-aloud with some Tales from the Odyssey independent read or lit groups, really. Those books are just right for teaching vocab in context skills. Everything is really simplified but there is ample challenging vocabulary in just the right places. I couldn't be happier with the way it's working out. I"m basically having ELA class at home with my son, and I'm seeing results. show less
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Mary Pope Osborne was born in Fort Sill, Oklahoma on May 20, 1949. She grew up in a military family, and by the time she was 15 she had lived in Oklahoma, Austria, Florida, and four different army posts in Virginia and North Carolina. She attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where she majored in religion. After graduation, she show more traveled around Europe and Asia. Before becoming an author, she worked as a window dresser, a medical assistant, a Russian travel consultant, a waitress, an acting teacher, a bartender, and an assistant editor for a children's magazine. Her first book, Run, Run as Fast as You Can, was published in 1982. She is the author of the Magic Tree House series and the Merlin Missions series. Her husband, actor Will Osborne, helps her write the nonfiction companion series, Magic Tree House Research Guides. Her other books include The Deadly Power of Medusa, Jason and the Argonauts, Haunted Waters, and Moonhorse. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Tales from the Odyssey: Sirens and Sea Monsters
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- 883.01 — Literature & rhetoric Classical & modern Greek literatures Classical Greek epic poetry and fiction Pseudo-Callisthenes
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