Have you been looking for a challenge for your child? Great Books is a fun group and next week the selection chosen is from the Junior Great Books collection. 5th through 8th graders along with their parents are invited to join in the discussion. There is no written work required and no test! Great Books is an excellent way to encourage reading, analyze literary works, and hear what others think. Pick up the complete selection in the Logic School Office.
Happiness for Sale at the Goblin Market
Young maidens, Lizzie and Laura, are aware of the danger posed by their nightly forest journeys for water. Goblin men (much different than the human sort) barter happiness for a lock of hair. Deep in the woods, they merchant tempting fruit:
Currants and gooseberries,
Bright-fire-like barberries,
Figs to fill your mouth,
Citrons from the South,
Sweet to tongue and sound to eye;
Come buy. Come buy.
Laura cannot resist; she is not the first of her kind to yield to forbidden fruit. Will she bring her sister to ruin as well? Or can the other find strength to stand:
Like a royal virgin town
Topped with gilded dome and spire
Close beleaguered by a fleet
Mad to tug her standard down.
Join us Tuesday, December 5th at 7:30pm at the high school building to discuss Christina Rossetti's marvelous fairy-tale poem, "The Goblin Market." As an encouragement to the lower grades, we invite teachers, parents, and students (fifth grade and up) to join us for the discussion. This is juvenile fiction with mature human significance and beauty.