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December 23, 2006 |
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There Was A Hole!
FOUND by John
in Peoria, Illinois
I teach elementary kids, and I found this left in a desk one day after reading The Pit and The Pendulum to the class.
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Isn't that story a bit intense for elementary school kids?
maybe two stories was a bad idea they seem to be confused!!
Isn't The Pit and the Pendulum an odd choice for elememtary kids?
Ed
i agree, i read that my junior year of high school.
The Pit and the Pendulum is one story =)
I loved it when my primary school teacher read Roland Dahl stories. Those were slightly intense too. I don't think that story is intense. Perhaps it was for halloween.
Edgar Allen Poe is classic grade school literature. I remember reading that story in 5th or 6th grade. Plus, it looks like the writer of the note was engaged in it!
i loved edgar allen poe as a grade school student. it was "real" literature, yet my elementary mind could understand it.
"His chin touched the ground his lips touched nothing!" Wow...pretty good opener for a grade schooler...I'm impressed...
it's roald dahl. and the pit and the pendulum is one story. and i think that middle schoolers are most definitely mature enough for it.
Poe is not too high level for Elementary. I teach 5th grade and use The Raven in a poetry unit every year, and read The Tell Tale Heart this year before Halloween. His work is great to use for so many different reasons.
By the way, Sorcha, it is Roald Dahl, not Roland...but you are right, if you think that James and the Giant Peach is less dark than The Pit and the Pendulum, you are very sheltered or ill read!
Hi Patrick. Thank you for pointing out my miss-spelling. I have neither led a sheltered life nor am I ill read. I was merely suggesting that Edgar Allen Poe's story is not too intense. It's on the same level of any other halloween story.
This kid "saw clearly the doom." Good one, John.
Sorcha, you might want to re read my post, I agreed with you.
Wow, I've been teaching that story too long...I immediately knew what the note was referencing without reading the comment!
My school librarian read that story to me in grade two. I was tramatized for about two months. Of course, it didn't help that she was reading other 'horror' (to little kids) stories to us as well, at least once a week during library time. It was all the stories together that did it. I didn't like her!
I liked how he used exclamation marks. He/she was expressive. Now I want to read this book.
I'm a junior in highschool. and we JUST read the pit and the pendulum.
its kinda too intense for elementray school.
they'd enjoy it, but they wouldnt get it.
the end.
I also am a junior in high school and just read this in high school in a study of horror literature. If I read this as a child I would have had nightmares. The Tell-Tale Heart is probably even creepier. I hope the kid doesn't hear that one anytime soon!