[HPforGrownups] Re: Dahl, Ebony, and etc.

[Denise]

No: HPFGUIDX 450


  Hello:

  >> Yes, it is.  Gene Wilder was *fantastic*.

  >Aaah!  I love that movie!
  I second that comment!  He is the most awesomest!  (Wonder if he could do British accents?  Nah.  I do own a copy of the movie, and took my little class tape recorder one night and taped the whole songtrack that way (until I catch it on Napster?)


  >> I remember now that first author that came to mind when I first read
  >> HP was Roald Dahl.  I loved reading his books as a child and can 
  >> still remember the school librarian reading "The Twits" to my first 
  >> grade class.  I'd like to do some Dahl this year, but the fourth 
  >> grade teachers pretty much cover him.

  >In fourth grade, my teacher read the first few chapters of "The 
  >Witches" to us.  I couldn't wait for her to finish it, so I checked 
  >it out of the library on my own-- and I've been reading Dahl ever 
  >since.

  In third grade, we got lucky and had a substitute, named Mrs. Hood.  I wasn't a big big reader until that year, but she brought in and started reading Nancy Drew and the 99 steps, or the like, and that sounds like exactly what I did (dragged mom to the mall, and used birthday money to buy myself a copy...  When Mrs. Hood found out, she wasn't mad I had read ahead (like finished the book like HP?), but instead asked me to bring in my copy and show the pictures to the class as she read!  She was sooo kewl!

  > (Sidenote--a little announcement I'm sort of proud of--I just 
  >learned today that I've been appointed as a lead teacher at my 
  >school, fifth grade team leader to be exact!  As this is my second 
  >year of contract teaching, I am quite pleased.  It'll mean some 
  >extra work, but I'll have an administrative voice in how the 
  >district's Grade 5 curriculum is interpreted at our school, what 
  >themes we cover, what field trips we take, etc.)

  I too want to congratulate you; I wish more teachers were like you out there!


  :)
  Dee




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