Safina Stewart is a Melbourne-based multicultural artist, educator and storyteller. Rather than separate attributes, these are all part of the same thing for Safina—impossible to separate one from the other. Safina’s professional creative journey began in 2007, when a spiritual experience inspired her to leave a teaching job in order to become a full-time artist. But as an Aboriginal woman and Torres Strait Islander, her paintings are part of a tradition that dates back much further, tens of thousands of years by some estimates. She weaves stories of life, creation and unity through the symbols of her heritage. Indigenous artist Safina Stewart created a series of paintings for the 99designs office in Melbourne. This is her story. Because 99designs is...
4th Grade Reading Comprehension Passages That Will ROCK Your Reading Block…. that’s a pretty big promise, isn’t it? But I’m totally serious. I created color by number reading comprehension because I LOVED using reading passages in my classroom. Students learn how to go back in the text. They learn how to comprehend. They learn how to interpret questions. But… reading passages are tedious. They take too long. Sometimes the kids spend so much time reading the passage, they never get to the questions. This 4th-grade reading comprehension color by number set solves all those problems. Yep, it’s time for reading comprehension that students actually ENJOY. Keep reading to learn all about this 4th-grade reading comprehension set! Also, make sure to...
A book review of The Well-Educated Mind: A Guide to the Classical Education You Never Had by Susan Wise Bauer Stars: **** W.W. Norton & Company (2015)Classical Education512 pages Disclosure: This post contains affiliate links. Summary: The enduring and engaging guide to educating yourself in the classical tradition. Have you lost the art of reading for pleasure? Are there books you know you should read but haven’t because they seem too daunting? In The Well-Educated Mind, Susan Wise Bauer provides a welcome and encouraging antidote to the distractions of our age, electronic and otherwise. Newly expanded and updated to include standout works from the twenty-first century as well as essential readings in science (from the earliest works of Hippocrates to the...
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Salman Rushdie—the former PEN America President and Booker Prize-winning author of Midnight’s Children, The Satanic Verses, and Joseph Anton—just sold a new novel, and it sounds like a doozy. Billed as a translation of an ancient Indian myth, Victory City—Rushdie’s fifteenth novel, his first since 2019’s Quichotte—is the story of “a woman who breathes a fantastical empire into existence, only to be consumed by it over the centuries.” In the wake of an insignificant battle between two long-forgotten kingdoms in fourteenth-century southern India, a nine-year-old girl has a divine encounter that will change the course of history. After witnessing the death of her mother, the grief-stricken Pampa Kampana becomes a vessel for the goddess Parvati, who begins to speak out...
