When I was looking up the authors of MR. POPPER’S PENGUINS for the Wednesday Words, I found… this money management site’s teaching guide to MR. POPPER’S PENGUINS.
Yes, I am serious. And I quote:
Remind students that Mr. Popper used credit wisely. He was able to use credit for goods and services even though he did not have enough money to pay for them at the time. He made an agreement with the engineer to pay him when he got the money. Then Mr. Popper fulfilled his agreement by paying the man as soon as he got the first paycheck for the Performing Penguins.
Challenge to the readers: can anyone think of a more pathetic pedagogic use of a completely awesome book?
Also: I had to make up a whole new category for this post, yet I am extremely hopeful about the opportunity to use it again. It seems replete with possibilities that are almost guaranteed to be interesting.
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January 28, 2009 at 8:57 am
This doesn’t quite relate to children or books, but I once saw a Christian right wing website argue that the Kill Bill movies were pro-life because they portrayed Uma Thermon’s loss of her child as tragic. Though thinking about that it really isn’t a deviation from their general logic.
January 29, 2009 at 12:45 pm
Makes sense to me. I’ve studied logic, so I know that the belief that having one’s child die is a tragedy also implies the belief that all women should be forced to have babies they don’t want, all the time. Possibly this argument is too subtle for you, though.
February 9, 2009 at 12:32 pm
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