[HPFGU-OTChatter] I cannot believe this...
Alex Hogan
predigirl1 at yahoo.com
Sun Sep 30 04:05:42 UTC 2007
That makes me want to scream! Those movies are NOTHING like the books, unlike the other books/adaptions you mentioned! If you hadn't read most of the HP books you would have know idea what was going on in the movies. this is ridiculous.
Alex Hogan
doddiemoemoe <doddiemoemoe at yahoo.com> wrote:
Finally my youngest an read GOF and OOP actually she could read it
for quite some time but was consumed with other works...
and the educators explatation as to why they cannot read it for or
obtain any credit for it was, "because of the moveis"...NOW, We all
know that most of both said books are not in any movie...so why
remove them from the list?!?!? MY kid can still read the entire
bond series, Narnia series, Pullman series, Sherlock Holmses series
etc.....
Now normally I wouldn't care...but definitely why keep all the books
aside from those two? Is it becase they think the kids would cheat
on their tests? Come on...we know movies four and five contain the
least of the content of the previous books..(are you kidding
me...Neville and Dobby are suddenly interchangeable?)
I'm sorry but given the text/vs. the movies...why take those two
books off the list and let all other's remain???
I dunno, I think it's more about educators reading the same tired
thing ...I could understand educator's limiting one HP book per year
per student (as long as writings include three to five aspects not
in the movies...none to hard for GOF and OOP....(the only two books
they eliminated...OMG--could it be that the teachers are watching
the movies and NOT reading the books--probably)..because we know
it's not because of a movie...especially when they recommended "A
Tree Grows in Brooklyn" and a movie has been made and King's Dream
Catcher, movie again, and Jaws, Cujo,Carrie, movies again, and
theres deeper, "Who's afraid of Virginia Woolfe", Charly, Christmas
Carole/Scrooged, Hunchback of Notre Dame etc..etc. etc.....at the
least have the kids submit a ballot....and have a drawing for the
entire school to pick one HP book...I'm just upset that my kids
teacher was up there preaching to us about humnanities and how we
should let our honors lit kids read what they want but all of a
sudden remove a set of books...just because of a "movie" which we
all know that movie 3, 4 and 5 and less, and less and, less of the
books w/in them...
Doddie
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