World Book Day is on March 7th and focuses on literacy. Stories are important to humanity for understanding the world, passing down culture, teaching life lessons, and capturing the eternal. Language shapes our understanding of science, history, and geography as words originate from ancient literature and mythology. Stories allow humans to make sense of the world and leave a lasting legacy.

1. World Book Day: Thursday 7th March
Literacy Week

4. Do you recognise any of these?

5. How about these?
“Beware of the green-eyed monster”
“Whatever our souls are made of his
and mine are the same”
“Always”
"Maybe ever’body in the whole damn
world is scared of each other."
“Vanish into thin air”
“Eaten out of house and home”
“swagger”
“Uncomfortable”

6. Why are stories important to humanity?
Understanding the
world around us
Passing down our
cultures
Teaching us about
each other and how to
live
Capturing the elusive
and eternal

7. What we owe language: Ancient and Modern
Prominent Arabic literature began to
appear around the 6th century,
although it should be noted that this
pertains to written literature.
Coming from a strong oral
background, Arab cultures originally
passed down legends, stories, and
poetry orally and through
memorization.

8. Stories and language are a way for
humans to make sense of the world
around them and to leave their mark
on the world.
Words are immortal whilst statues
turn to dust.
What we owe language: Ancient and Modern

9. “My name is Ozymandias,
King of Kings;
Look on my Works, ye
Mighty, and despair!”
Nothing beside remains.
Round the decay
Of that colossal Wreck,
boundless and bare
The lone and level sands
stretch far away.
Percy Shelley
What we owe language: Ancient and Modern

10. Language:
Pheonix: famous Greek
navigator
Pheonician empire:
Modern day Lebanon
Created the Pheonician
alphabet.
Which gives us Phonics
= sounds
What we owe language: Ancient and Modern

11. Science:
Sun God Helios
Son of Titan Hyperion
Which gives us
Helium
Roman equivalent is
Sol which gives us
Solar
Solitary
Soliloquy
What we owe language: Ancient and Modern

12. The Story of the Sun
Apollo lets his young son, Phaeton, take the reigns of his
sun chariot
Helios asks what could go wrong?

13. The Story of the Sun

14. Geography:
Greek God Epaphus
married Nilus’
daughter Memphis.
They have a daughter
called Libya.
She had a son called
Aegyptus. Now
recognised more
widely as Egypt.
What we owe language: Ancient and Modern

15. Do you recognise any of these?

16. Why are stories important to humanity?
Understanding the
world around us
Passing down our
cultures
Teaching us about
each other and how to
live
Capturing the elusive
and eternal

17. Why are stories important to humanity?
If you don’t think reading and language is important or
relevant, look at the world around you