Stealing Air by Trent Reedy

Author:Trent Reedy
Language: eng
Format: mobi, pdf
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Published: 1967-12-31T22:00:00+00:00

On Monday morning, Ms. Gilbert stood in front of the class. “I am handing out the paper that describes your Greek mythology group assignment,” she said. She quickly touched her thumb to her tongue so that she could separate the papers more easily, then peeled off enough for each row of students. Brian wished she wouldn’t do the whole licking-the-thumb thing. It always left this gross glob of spit on the corner of the paper. It wasn’t as bad for him in the fourth seat back, but he pitied the front-row people.

Starting in Wendy’s corner, Ms. Gilbert counted off the students. “One, two, three. You’re a group.” She directed the next three into a group. Everyone looked around, trying to figure out who they’d be with. The first two people in Brian’s row fell into a group with someone from the one before. That meant Alex, Brian, and Max would be working together.

“When I have given you permission to speak, and not a moment before then, you will form your groups,” Ms. Gilbert said. Her shoes made that scary teacher clip-clop sound on the tile floor. “You will not drag your desks into position. You will lift them up off the floor and place them where you want them. Do you understand?”

Why did she always ask that? Brian wondered. Did she expect anyone to answer her? Whenever grown-ups asked, “Do you understand?” it seemed more like they were saying, “Do you understand how much trouble you’ll be in if you don’t do what I say?”

Ms. Gilbert continued. “Each group will choose one of the myths from the list on the paper. You will all read and study the story of the myth. Then you will do research online and in the library to find out how this myth appears in or affects our culture. You’ll find advertisements, films, TV shows, novels, words, and …”

Something blinked on the screen of Brian’s graphing calculator. It was an old model, one that his dad wasn’t using anymore. He’d thought it was off. It blinked again and he looked more closely at it.

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