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Fun literacy activity, or tasteless?; I need opinions!
Topic Started: Dec 27 2007, 07:40 PM (193 Views)
dolmansaxlil
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I found this idea while I was searching for activities to go with Flight 116 is Down. I LOVE the idea, but because of the subject of the book, it could be considered a bit tasteless. What would you say if you knew your child's grade 8 class was doing this?

http://www.socs.k12.in.us/schools/ovms/rea...flight_116.html

(Yes, I'm considering it with my class. I KNOW the kids would love it...just looking for feedback before I go to administration and ask.)
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I'de be OK with it.

I would make sure that the message being sent to the kids wasn't one of fun and frivolous mocking.

If the message was one of emergency and heroism....or of helping and understanding, I would be down with that.

On the other hand it the kids were making it into a comedy or taking something like a plane crash lightly, I wouldn't like it.

Plane crashes are awful, terrible, and just plain uncool. That would be an important point to make.
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dolmansaxlil
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I don't know if you're familiar with the book - but it's all about heroism (the two main characters are a young EMT, and the teenaged girl who lives on the estate where the plane crashes - she's the first on the scene and it's about her realizing that she can be useful as she does all the right things in the situation). And the desriptions of the plane crash aftermath are very jarring (one of the reasons it's a great read-aloud). It's certainly not something that the kids should be taking lightly...even though the activity would be fun.
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sounds great!

I wish you were my 8th grade teacher.

I didn't like 8th grade much.

I like this idea, though.
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sue
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Done right, I think it would be great. 8th graders are in need of some spice in the curriculum, and a good teacher could do this well. My gut sense is that the girls will get a lot more out of it, and the boys will do a lot of eyeball rolling at the theatrics, but will actually get a lot out of the book after the fact.
Kudos to you for putting out the effort. That is one thing the kids will notice, and it is a big deal.
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DivaDeb
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um...yeah...I think it's a great idea...but then...I'm about to direct Sweeney Todd in a school, so I may encounter some who think it's a little...tasteless.

Fortunately, the Principal has agreed to deal with naysayers. Your admin will support you, I think, you're too cool for them not to. The kids will think it's amazing.

(an aside...our kids usually have t-shirts made for each show, with the logo and performance dates, and they all wear them to school the week prior to advertise the upcoming performances. For this show, instead of t-shirts, we're getting aprons :lol: )

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RosemaryTwo
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Pittsburghers have lived through two major planecrashes, including the crash of USAir flight 427 in 1994 and the crash of flight 93 in Shanksville on September 11. On flight 427 we lost an entire family from our township, so, no, that would go over like a lead balloon here.

I would test the waters carefully, and make sure to treat the topic with some degree of seriousness at some point, making sure students recognize the true horror of such incidents.

edit -- I also once interviewed first responders to these two plane crashes. Suicide, divorce, and depression rates skyrocketed for them afterward. What they told me was horrifying, and nothing I could ever publish. I am biased.
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