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LOL. I actually did laugh aloud when I read this. :) I can picture it now: a pond full of little tadpoles wearing tights. I live in Australia like Kookamoor and I always thought that tadpoles were around all year. At least I know that when I was littler and went to catch them I could...

Our prices seem to be going up again. It cost me $70 to fill my car up the other day. This time last year it cost me $40 to fill up. Our petrol goes up on certain days of the week, for instance, it is at it's most expensive from Wednesday afternoon until Saturday and then it comes back down...

I thought that it was my fate to be a 'little person' (child) forever because I thought little people were born little and big people were born big. I used to think that you would be walking along the road and just bump into the person you were supposed to marry. I was told babies were made...

I think a lot of the traditional fairy tales are pretty dark in some fashion. In Hansel and Gretel you have the unwanted children who are almost eaten by a witch; in the Cinderella the actions of the step sisters when they try to make the shoe fit their feet aren't exactly nice. Considering...

My parents swore, but it was saved for certain times. Neither one of them ever swore in conversation, only when they were angry and hen they never used the 'f' word. But even so, I never swore in a classroom, at a teacher, or in front of my parents. Even now when I'm grown up I still get in...

I read it about 20 years ago and loved it. I also read That was Then This is Now and the one that followed that one called Rumblefish. They are all good books and are still taught in schools now. Every kid seems to be able to find something to identify with in them.

In my senior years at high school I had to read: Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen - Emma Shakespeare - Macbeth Shakespeare - Hamlet John Le'Care - The Spy Who Came iin From the Cold Lady in the Lake (Can't remember the author) D.H.Lawrence - Sons and Lovers Beckett -...

I think it depends too on what you see as 'good writing'. For instance Charles Dickens is considered a good writer, but seriously I found it very difficult when I began to read Bleak House. After the first paragraph or two I got the point that the fog was thick. That kind of 'good writing'...

If you want more factual stuff, rather than novels dealing with it, then try looking at some sociology type books. I remember reading some stuff on incest in my sociology text book at uni, so I'm sure other sociology books would cover it as well.

I can't stand to part with my books. I have loaned many of them to people who have never returned them, so now, I don't even like lending books to people. Like Halo, I still have all my childhood books as well.

LMAO. Will do, but I have no idea when he will teach it, so you may be waiting for quite some time. :)

Katherine Kerr writes great fantasy. Her Deverry series does have a little bit of romance in it. There is not a great deal of saving and rescuing, but there is a bit of fighting and one woman in particular is quite strong, physically as well as mentally. Anyway, she is my favourite fantasy...

LOL, you just won't give up. :P I told my friend at school today of this discussion. He has said that he will teach Lord of the Flies and see what the kids think. Like you, he thinks they will enjoy it. So we shall see. :) Perhaps he will prove me wrong and you right.

OK, I checked the bookroom today and wrote down a list for you of novels that students actually do like. I realise you may not have heard of some of them. Robin Klein - Came Back to Show you I Could fly. Ursula Dubosarsky - Game of the Goose. Debra Oswald - The Fifth Quest. John Marsden -...

Jay, I do have access to Lord of the Flies, so although I appreciate the offer, I don't need you to send me one. :) In our junior high school system (years 7-10), we now have to teach skills. The novels we use are there to teach those skills. It is not until senior high school (years 11-12)...

Yes, I am a teacher. I agree that you don't have to like a book to respect it, but the students will have a lot more chance of actually learning something from the book if they are able to like it just a little bit. You are obviously an intelligent person who enjoys reading and will do so...

Hahaha, read my post again. I said I was supposed to read it for school (which was at least 20 years ago ;)) and it was the only book I was supposed to read, but never actually finished. No, it's not Matthew Reilly. :) Some of the books I was thinking of are ones like Hitler's Daughter...

I do the same thing. Usually in my dreams I tend to take off from the last bit of the story I read and of course I am one of the characters. ;)

Forgive my ignorance, but I have no idea what you mean by this. :confused: You are right, of course. Any book can be taught well, but that doesn't make the book any more or less interesting or enjoyable. It just makes the studying of it more bearable. Once again I find myself...

I also hated Lord of the Flies when I had to do it at school. In fact, I think it was the only book I was supposed to read that I never bothered to finish. As a result I have never taught this book and I have never even considered suggesting that my students read it. The books I would...