Bradley Hall

It happens to the best of us. We need a day off because we’re sick, one of our children is sick, or we have a temporary duty elsewhere, or a field trip… really, there is any number of reasons we cannot be in the classroom on any given day. We then have to give our students over to a stranger, a substitute teacher! In many schools, the word “substitute” is a dirty word. The students see it as a free day, the teachers next to your classroom are annoyed by the overabundance of disruptions from you

The former Emperor of Korea had set up a secret police, which had to maintain peace and order in the city that should have prevented robberies and theft. But as so often happens, the crime did not end and the Emperor was quite annoyed. He sent for the chief of police and began to rebuke him. The chief of police, however, defended his policemen and said they were all efficient and skillful. The Emperor was clever and knew all the tricks that thieves can use, so he would put his police force to t

This short story is a Japanese fairy tale. I translated it myself... from German... which was itself translated from Japanese. I have included several short response questions in addition to the short story. The story is about a man who dances with goblins. The goblins cure a mark on the side of his cheek. When he tells his village what happened, another man decides to get the same treatment, but his dance is not good enough for the goblins who then give "him" his mark back, but, it's not the s