Around the World in 80 Days: Chapters 13-16

Around the World in 80 Days: Chapters 13-16
Chapter 13:In Which Passepartout Recieves a New Proof That Fortune Favors the Brave The rajah rises from the burial pyre – or did he? Who was that, anyway? Vocabulary: pyre, aperature, suppleness, hemp, prostrate, spectre, prodigy, inanimate, resuscitat…

Around the World in 80 Days: Chapters 9-12

Around the World in 80 Days: Chapters 9-12
'Very curious, very curious," said Passepartout to himself. 'I see it is by no means useless to travel if a man wants to see something new.' Chapter 9: In Which the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean Prove Propitious to the Designs of Philea…

Swimming Creatures Lesson 10: Cephalopods

Swimming Creatures Lesson 10: Cephalopods
This week, we have been learning about the four different kinds of "head-footed" animals, the octopus, the squid, the nautilus, and the cuttlefish, which are all cephalopods. We learned how they swim (by jet propulsion), what they eat, what kinds o…

Around the World in 80 Days: Chapters 5-8

Around the World in 80 Days: Chapters 5-8
Chapter 5: In which a New Species of Funds, Unknown to the Moneyed Men, Appears on 'Change. Phileas Fogg becomes quite a news sensation with people all over England wagering for and against him in his attempt to go around the world in eighty days. …