Percent Increase and Decrease Quiz

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New World for Columbus - a play

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Synopsis:As a Chinese and Islamic trader trade spices for carpets, we learn why the sailors from the Islamic countries became the middlemen between the Asian and European countries. In the next scene, the Islamic trader is haggling about price (which is now increased 5,000%!) with an Italian merchant, overheard by Christopher Columbus and his parents. Columbus vows to become a rich merchant, against his parents' will, but on his first voyage, his uncle's ship is attacked and destroyed by pirates

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Drama, U.S. History, World History

The Wise Old Woman - a play

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Creative Educational Systems

In this comical look a traditional medieval Japanese folktale, your students will experience the culture, and learn an important lesson about the value of the elders in a society. Synopsis of the Story:In The Wise Old Woman, a Japanese town's young lord, thinking that the town's elderly are a burden and a waste of resources, issues a foolish decree that all people over the age of 70 are to be taken to the mountain and left to die. One young farmer cannot bear to send his old mother to the moun

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Asian Studies, Drama, Literature