The Fifth Grade Will Read or Study the Following Stories, Essays, & Paintings – from Touchpebbles Volume B (the Touchstones Discussion Project):

1. The Great Fire in the Northern Forest
(A Tale to Begin Seminar) ……………………. 1

2. About Revenge

by Francis Bacon . ………………………… 3

3. Diamond Painting in Red, Yellow, and Blue

by Piet Mondrian …………………………. 5

4. Two Women and a Baby

1 Kings 3: 16-27,from the Bible . ………………. 7

5. A Case Study in Medical Ethics …………………… 9

6. A Paradox of Motion

by Zeno of Elea …………………………. 11

7. The Missing Axe

A Tale from China . ………………………. 13

8. Proverbs …………………………………… 15

9. The Wolf and the Dog

A Tale from the Middle East. ……………….. 17

10. The Judge’s Coat

A Tale from North Africa . ………………….. 19

11. Advice to a Teacher

by Fanny Jackson Coppin . …………………. 21

12. The Song of Wandering Aengus

by William Butler Yeats . …………………… 23

13. Common Ideas from The Elements

by Euclid . ……………………………… 25

14. Up from Slavery

by Booker T. Washington . ………………….. 27

15. A Pueblo Sandpainting ……………………….. 29

16. The Declaration ofIndependence ……………….. 31

17. The Velveteen Rabbit

by Margery Williams . …………………….. 33

18. A Young Thief and His Mother

by Aesop ………………………………. 35

19. Two Heraldic Shields ………………………… 37

20. Woman and Death

A Tale of the Blackfeet . ……………………. 41

21. My Boyhood and Youth

by John Muir . ………………………….. 43

22. The American Dream

by Martin Luther King Jr .. …………………. 45

23. The Life of Alexander

by Plutarch . ……………………………. 47

24. Three Letters ………………………………. 49

25. Why Parrots Mimic Humans

A Tale from Thailand …………………….. 51

26. Photographs and Cartoons of Charles Darwin ………. 53

27. One Person’s Gain Is Another’s Loss

by Michel de Montaigne . …………………… 55

28. African Wall Paintings

from the Bangba Tribe . ……………………. 57

29. The Fox and the Raven

A Tale from Egypt . ………………………. 59

30. The Autobiography of Malcolm X

by Malcolm X . ………………………….. 61