The sea does not like to be restrained

That’s supposed to make me love them? Their precious “Western civilization” is adisease, Percy. It’s killing the world. The only way to stop it is to burn it to the ground, start overwith something more honest.

Then it hit me.You will be betrayed by one who calls you a friend.‘You,’ I said

Listen, I was going to come lookingfor you. What do you say we go down to the woods one last time, look for something to fight?

This is Backbiter

ave a nice day!Mr D (Dionysus

So why was I still uneasy?

You’re like an old mama goat.’

The last thing I saw as the door swung closed was my mother staring at Gabe, as if she werecontemplating how he would look as a garden statue

I passed, they knelt, as if I were some kind of hero.

Your mother is a queen among women,’ Poseidon said wistfully. ‘I had not met such a mortalwoman in a thousand years. Still... I am sorry you were born, child. I have brought you a hero’s fate,and a hero’s fate is never happy. It is never anything but tragic.’I tried not to feel hurt. Here was my own dad, telling me he was sorry I’d been born. ‘I don’t mind,Father.’

Lord Zeus has closed discussion on this matter. He will not allow talk of Kronos. You havecompleted your quest, child. That is all you need to do.

Your uncle,’ Poseidon sighed, ‘has always had a flair for dramatic exits. I think he would’ve donewell as the god of theatre.’

You still claim him then?’ Zeus asked menacingly. ‘You claim this child whom you sired againstour sacred oath?’‘I have admitted my wrongdoing,’ Poseidon said. ‘Now I would hear him speak.’Wrongdoing.A lump welled up in my throat. Was that all I was? A wrongdoing? The result of a god’s mistake?

Nobodyseemed worried about an impending civil war. In fact, everybody seemed in a festive mood. Severalof them turned to watch me pass, and whispered to themselves

Oh, I think he’ll make an exception.’ I slipped off my backpack and unzipped the top.The guard looked inside at the metal cylinder, not getting what it was for a few seconds. Then hisface went pale. ‘That isn’t...

The reporters fed us this whole story. We just nodded and acted tearful and exhausted (whichwasn’t hard), and played victimized kids for the cameras.

World War III

I now understood what Annabeth had said about ADHDkeeping you alive in battle. I was wide awake, noticing every little detail.

If I lose, turn me into anything you want. Take the bolt. If I win, the helmet and the bolt are mineand you have to go away.

I realized I’d been played with. Zeus, Poseidon and Hades had been set at eachother’s throats by someone else. The master bolt had been in the backpack, and I’d got the backpackfrom...

That thing in the pit is ordering you around.’‘I am the god of war! I take orders from no one! I don’t have dreams!’

Hey, kid,’ Ares said, seeming genuinely pleased to see me. ‘You were supposed to die.’‘You tricked me,’ I said. ‘You stole the helmet and the master bolt.’

Have you any idea how much my kingdom has swollen in this past century alone, how manysubdivisions I’ve had to open?’

The garden of Persephone

Yeah, sure. I never liked those shoes, anyway.

Welcome, Newly Deceased!

The dead aren’t scary. They’re just sad.

We’ve learned that your plans really, really bite!’

Good boy,’ I said weakly.

Who says he’s seeing this place the way were seeing it? Humans see what theywant to see. They’re very stubborn – er, persistent, that way.’

Special punishment from Hades,

I found myself muttering a prayer, though I wasn’t quite sure who I was praying to. Down here,only one god mattered, and he was the one I had come to confront.

might as well add you three and be off.’He stood, scooped up our money, and said, ‘Come along

Straightforward and honest. No screaming. No “There must be a mistake, Mr Charon”.’ He lookedus over. ‘How did you die, then?

Don’t think negative

We were almost stretched to death!’‘Then you’re ready for the Underworld,’ I said. ‘It’s only a block from here.

Ah,’ I said, swallowing hard. ‘Sensible.’‘I’m so glad to come across an intelligent customer!

A fake tear glistened on his cheek. He was saying, ‘Honest, Ms Walters, if it wasn’t for Sugar here,my grief counsellor. I’d be a wreck. My stepson took everything I cared about. My wife... myCamaro... I – I’m sorry. I have trouble talking about it.

I know you journey to Hades’s realm,’ she said. ‘Few mortals have ever done this and survived:Orpheus, who had great musical skill; Hercules, who had great strength; Houdini, who could escapeeven the depths of Tartarus. Do you have these talents?’

Sliding along beside me was a two-metre-long mako shark.But the thing wasn’t attacking. It was nuzzling me

And believe me, I’d done that enough times.

The answer is in the Underworld,’

But the thing in the pit said it was waiting for two items,’ I said. ‘If the master bolt is one, what’sthe other?

We had been in the Lotus Casino for five days.We had only one day left until the summer solstice. One day to complete our quest

The doorman smiled at us. ‘Hey, kids. You look tired. You want to come in and sit down?’I’d learned to be suspicious, the last week or so. I figured anybody might be a monster or a god

Blasthis father’s blood – he is too changeable, too unpredictable. The boy brought himself hither.

Because you’re my friend, Seaweed Brain. Any more stupid questions?

Because you wouldn’t leave two other half-bloods behind?’ I said. ‘That’s not fair.

Nobody’s controlling me.’

She’s not dead.’

Force times the trajectory angle –’

I thought she was married to somebody,’ I said. ‘Hephaestus.’‘What’s your point?’ he asked

Something a god doesn’t have time to do himself. It’s nothing much. I left my shield at anabandoned water park here in town. I was going on a little... date with my girlfriend. We wereinterrupted. I left my shield behind. I want you to fetch it for me.’‘Why don’t you go back and get it yourself?’

Ares, god of war.

As he walked into the diner, a hot, dry wind blew through the place. All the people rose, as if theywere hypnotized, but the biker waved his hand dismissively and they all sat down again. Everybodywent back to their conversations

He fed in the quarters and set the knob to fine mist ‘I-M’ing.’‘Instant messaging?’‘Iris-messaging,’ Annabeth corrected. ‘The rainbow goddess Iris carries messages for the gods. Ifyou know how to ask, and she’s not too busy, she’ll do the same for half-bloods.’

I cannot stay, brave one, the woman said. She reached out, and I felt the current brush my face likea caress. You must go to Santa Monica! And, Percy, do not trust the gifts...

But the strangest thought occurred to me only last: I was breathing. I was underwater, and I wasbreathing normally.

The truth? My only thought was: Aaaaggghhhhh!

Athena watched over me, guided me towards help.

He never wanted a baby. When he got me, he asked Athena to take meback and raise me on Olympus because he was too busy with his work. She wasn’t happy about that.She told him heroes had to be raised by their mortal parent.

I Plunge to My Death

I thought about what Medusa had said: I was being used by the gods

that he’s claimed you, and part of you wants to make him proud.

I have to believe that, Percy. Every searcher does. It’s the only thing that keeps us from despairwhen we look at what humans have done to the world. I have to believe Pan can still be awakened.’

The GodsMount Olympus600th Floor,Empire State BuildingNew York, NYWith best wishes,PERCY JACKSON

I was angry, not just with Annabeth or her mom, but with all the gods for this whole quest, forgetting us blown off the road and in two major fights the very first day out from camp. At this rate,we’d never make it to L.A. alive, much less before the summer solstice.

the cursed Athena, turned me from a beautiful woman into this.

Aunty ‘M’.

Quite all right, Annabeth,’

The warehouse was filled with more statues – people in all different poses

We’re orphans,’

Meat!’ he said scornfully. ‘I’m a vegetarian.

Your mom stayed with him to protect you. She was a smartlady. She must’ve loved you a lot to put up with that guy – if that makes you feel any better

I was heading westwith no adult supervision, no backup plan, not even a cell phone. (Chiron said cell phones weretraceable by monsters; if we used one, it would be worse than sending up a flare.)

But the blade will pass through mortals like an illusion. They simply are notimportant enough for the blade to kill. And I should warn you: as a demigod, you can be killed byeither celestial or normal weapons. You are twice as vulnerable.

According to Grover, the guy was the camp’s head of security. Hesupposedly had eyes all over his body so he could never be surprised. Today, though, he was wearinga chauffeur’s uniform, so I could only see extra peepers on his hands, face and neck.‘This is Argus,’ Chiron told me. ‘He will drive you into the city, and, er, well, keep an eye onthings.

Overhead, lightning crackled. Thunder boomed

That is another ancient rule. Heroes, on the other hand,have certain privileges. They can go anywhere, challenge anyone, as long as they’re bold enough andstrong enough to do it. No god can be held responsible for a hero’s actions. Why do you think thegods always operate through humans?’‘You’re saying I’m being used

Whoa, boy, said the small part of my brain that was still sane. You’re a kid. Hades is a god

Hades must have a spy here

And you shall fail to save whatmatters most, in the end

You shall be betrayed by one who calls you afriend

You shall find what was stolen, and seeit safely returned

You shall go west, and facethe god who has turned

she’d been dead a long, long time

Go upstairs, Percy Jackson, to the attic.When you come back down, assuming you’re still sane, we will talk more.

And do you know what a full-fledged war would looklike, Percy?’‘Bad?’ I guessed.‘Imagine the world in chaos. Nature at war with itself. Olympians forced to choose sides betweenZeus and Poseidon. Destruction. Carnag

But I’ve never even been to Olympus! Zeus is crazy!

Poseidon and Zeus,’ I said. ‘They’re fighting over something valuable... something that wasstolen, aren’t they?

I figured it was a crime forme just to be alive. The other gods had probably been debating the best way to punish me for existing,and now Mr D was ready to deliver their verdict.

Come down, little hero,’ the voice crooned. ‘Come down!

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And I was absolutely miserable

My father?’ I asked, completely bewildered.‘Poseidon,’ said Chiron. ‘Earthshaker, Stormbringer, Father of Horses. Hail, Perseus Jackson, Sonof the Sea God.

Step out of the water, Percy.’‘What –’‘Just do it.’I came out of the creek and immediately felt bone tired. My arms started to go numb again. Myadrenalin rush left me. I almost fell over, but Annabeth steadied me.‘Oh, Styx,’ she cursed. ‘This is not good. I didn’t want... I assumed it would be Zeus....

That, of course, left Ares’s cabin: a dozen of the biggest, ugliest, meanestkids on Long Island, or anywhere else on the planet

Zeus himself got off easy becausehe’s immortal, but he brought a terrible fate on his daughter.’‘But that isn’t fair! It wasn’t the little girl’s fault.

Beginner’s luck?

This is difficult,’ he stressed. ‘I’ve had it used against me. No laughing at Percy, now. Mostswordsmen have to work years to master this technique

She’s not gone, I told myself. Not permanently, anyway. She’s in the Underworld. And if that’s areal place, then some day.

He’d even stolen me some toiletries, which was the nicest thinganybody had done for me all day.

I’m not too young. If they would just tell methe problem...

‘The gods are busy. They have a lot of kids and they don’talways... Well, sometimes they don’t care about us, Percy. They ignore us.

What? You assume it has to be a male god who finds a human female attractive? How sexist isthat?

You need to talk to the Oracle,’ Annabeth said.‘Who?’‘Not who. What. The Oracle. I’ll ask Chiron.’

I looked down and realized I was sitting in the only dry spot in the whole room. There was a circleof dry floor around me. I didn’t have one drop of water on my clothes. Nothing

A half-blood.

You don’t just choose a cabin, Percy. Itdepends on who your parents are. Or... your parent

They can be killed. But they don’t die.

You’re undetermined,’ Luke explained patiently. ‘They don’t know what cabin to put you in, soyou’re here. Cabin eleven takes all newcomers, all visitors. Naturally, we would. Hermes, ourpatron, is the god of travellers.’

Why depressing?

Twelve cabins for the twelve Olympians.But why would some be empty?

I’d gone a little weird. ‘We still have to eat, don’t we?’ I decided todrop the subject.

Then there’s the unfortunate... ah... fate of your mother.

Chiron told me the camp grew a nice crop for export to New York restaurants and Mount Olympus.‘It pays our expenses,’ he explained. ‘And the strawberries take almost no effort.

CAMP HALF-BLOOD T-shirts,

Who are you,’ he mused. ‘Well, that’s the question we all want answered, isn’t it?

Then, as you well know – or as I hope you know, since you passed mycourse – the heart of the fire moved to Rome, and so did the gods. Oh, different names, perhaps –Jupiter for Zeus, Venus for Aphrodite, and so on – but the same forces, the same gods.’‘And then they died.’‘Died? No. Did the West die? The gods simply moved, to Germany, to France, to Spain, for awhile.

You’re Dionysus,’ I said. ‘The god of wine.

That’s what. Oh, I love mortals – they haveabsolutely no sense of perspective. They think they’ve come so ̃o ̃o far. And have they, Chiron? Lookat this boy and tell me.’

But they’re stories,’ I said. ‘They’re – myths, to explain lightning and the seasons and stuff.They’re what people believed before there was science.’

Please,’ I said, ‘what is this place? What am I doing here? Mr Brun – Chiron – why would you goto Yancy Academy just to teach me?

We have satyrs at most schools, of course, keeping alookout. But Grover alerted me as soon as he met you. He sensed you were something special, so Idecided to come upstate. I convinced the other Latin teacher to... ah, take a leave of absence.

Young man, namesare powerful things. You don’t just go around using them for no reason.

But I was too miserable to care that satyrs existed, or even Minotaurs. All that meant wasmy mom really had been squeezed into nothingness, dissolved into yellow light.

He’s the one. He must be

Names have power.

Because some old ladies cut yarn.’‘Those weren’t old ladies,’ Grover said. ‘Those were the Fates. Do you know what it means – thefact they appeared in front of you? They only do that when you’re about to... when someone’s aboutto die

Oh, nobody much,’ Grover said, obviously still miffed about the donkey comment. ‘Just the Lordof the Dead and a few of his blood-thirstiest minions.

The less you knew, the fewer monsters you’d attract

O Zeu kai alloi theoi!’ he yelled. ‘It’s right behind me! Didn’t you tell her?

Safe from what?

I had always assumed he knew me as a baby. My mom had never said it outright, but still, I’d felt itmust be true. Now, to be told that he’d never even seen me...I felt angry at my father. Maybe it was stupid, but I resented him for going on that ocean voyage, fornot having the guts to marry my mom. He’d left us, and now we were stuck with Smelly Gabe.

Her name is Sally Jackson and she’s the best person in the world, which just proves my theory thatthe best people have the rottenest luck.

What last time?’‘Always sixth grade. They never get past sixth.

Let him enjoy his ignorance while he still can.

I’d never asked a teacher for help before

I started feeling cranky and irritable most of the time. My grades slipped from Ds to Fs. I got intomore fights with Nancy Bobofit and her friends.

Mrs Dodds had never existed.Almost.

I was alone.There was a ballpoint pen in my hand.Mr Brunner wasn’t there. Nobody was there but me.

She wasn’t human. She was a shrivelled hag with bat wings and claws and a mouth full ofyellow fangs, and she was about to slice me to ribbons.

. I smelled like livestock andmy knees were shaking. My head felt like it was splitting open. I was weak and scared and tremblingwith grief. I’d just seen my mother vanish.

got mad, then – mad at my mother, at Grover the goat, at the thing with horns that was lumberingtowards us slowly and deliberately like, like a bull

The place your father wanted to send you.

I am your friend.’

You got any cash?

She has no pictures.

The only good break she ever got was meeting my dad

Grover – that snipping of the yarn. Does that mean somebody is going to die?

All three women looked ancient, with pale faces wrinkled like fruit leather, silver hair tied back inwhite bandannas, bony arms sticking out of bleached cotton dresses.

Sir, he saw her...’

Did you see –’‘– the water –

I threw the Cambridge Guide to Greek Mythology

About real life. And how your studies apply to it.

f you’re reading this because you think you might be one, my advice is: close this book right now

The best way to increase your vocabulary, formality, or other skills, habits, and choices that professional writers make, for example, is by reading, and specifically reading in the discipline in which you wish to write.

Engagement in Active Reading:

Just like active learning described above, active reading is more effective because the reader—you—is more involved in your own reading process.

who you are as a reader matters: your experiences, your memories, your knowledge from other literature, other courses, and other texts – are all very important to bring to your reading process.

When you are more active in your own reading process, you not only comprehend and retain the information better — reading becomes dynamic and interactive.

We have just established that there are multiple ways of thinking, learning, and expressing ourselves. It is no surprise, then, that there are multiple ways of reading, and that reading and writing are connected.

little, if any, value around sharing power

more common is to point out either how the person or work is inadequate

The characteristics listed below are damaging because they are used as norms and standards without being pro-actively named or chosen by the group.

You must also study and learn the lessons of history

He said each of us has a moral obligation to stand up, speak up and speak out.

Around the country and the world you set aside race, class, age, language and nationality to demand respect for human dignity.

Code meshing be everywhere. It be used by all types of people. It allow writ-ers and speakers to bridge multiple codes and modes of expression that Fish say disparate and unmixable.

In a short, 13-word sentence, the chief academic officer of the highest ranked university in the country, and therefore in the entire world, has committed three grammatical crimes, failure to mark the possessive case, failure to specify the temporal and the causal relation-ships between the conversations he has and the effects he regrets, and failure to observe noun-pronoun agreement”

nstead of prescribing how folks should write or speak, I say we teach language descriptively. This mean we should, for instance, teach how language functions within and from various cultural perspectives.

Who could object to learning a second language?” What he really mean by this rhetorical question is that the “multiculturals” should be thrilled to leave they own dialect and learn another one, the one he promote.

Dominant language ideology also say peeps can speak whateva the heck way they want to—BUT AT HOME!

It’sATTITUDES. It be the way folks with some power perceive other people’s language.

He say dont no student have a rite to they own language if that language make them “vulnerable to prejudice”

Cause I speak three tonguesOne for each:Home, school and friendsI’m a tri-lingual orator

Now you may think that it is ignorant to speak broken EnglishBut I’m here to tell you that even “articulate” Americanssound foolish to the British

switch it up just because I can

One of the biggest changes, administrators say, has been encouraging students to take a full load of classes so that they can graduate in four years.

One strategy involves expanding the definition of financial aid to help students with unexpected problems, like a broken-down car or laid-off parent, that can lead them to leave campus and never get back on track.

They collect data on their students, study that data and use it to remove hurdles for students. They deepen students’ connections to other people on campus, including their classmates

Students tend to do better when they are following defined academic paths, rather than “aimlessly signing up for classes,”

Many lower-income and middle-class students excel in high school only to falter in college. They then struggle to get good jobs.

This suggests that the problem isn’t the students — it’s the schools.

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I knew I had succeeded where it countedwhen my mother finished reading my book andgave me her verdict: "So easy to read"

And I had plenty of empirical evidenceto support me: the fact that people in departmentstores, at banks, and in restaurants did not take herseriously, did not give her good service, pretendednot to understand her, or even acted as if they didnot hear her.