Story ideas relevance

Your child has a good understanding of the topic and writes about it in an imaginative and creative way. Your child has organized and developed his/her ideas in a coherent and well-defined manner. Your child purposely uses support material from the story that is relevant and appropriate. Your child shows the ability to vary sentence structure. Your child uses sophisticated vocabulary. Your child makes few mechanical errors, if any. 

Xenophon is mostly remembered today as the author of the Anabasis, where he records the story of the 10 000 Greek soldiers from Cyrus s army that he led back home after the unsuccessful war with Artaxerxes. However, he has other calls on onr attention, the most relevant to this book being that he wrote the Oeconomicus, probably the world s first textbook of economics. It contains ideas that formed the basis, more than 2000 years later, of the first serious attempt to analyze economic phenomena, which was made by Adam Smith in An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. Xenophon noted that there is a relation between the number of blacksmiths in a region and the prices that they can charge if there are too many, the price of their work falls, causing some to go out of business and helping to restore the value of the work of those that remain. This is effectively the first expression of what we now call the law of supply and demand. 

Even when working under such an approach, I still strive to take those gameplay ideas and mechanics and weave them into a story for which they have particular relevancy. 

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