Is it appropriate...?
Students were given the task in class and only finished it at home if they didn't have it completed, most parents were not aware of the task as it was completed in class, until another parent sms'd them....
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Creative writing topic for 9 year olds.... Murder in the Theme Park
Is it appropriate...?
Students were given the task in class and only finished it at home if they didn't have it completed, most parents were not aware of the task as it was completed in class, until another parent sms'd them....
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I wouldn't be comfortable with that topic at all! I would say not appropriate, but then I also think teaching 9yo children about anal sex is inappropriate too and that's what's done in the UK.
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It makes me wonder how short our childrens "childhood" is becoming....
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As for the murder in the theme park i find that a little disturbing, maybe if they were a few years older and fully understood what murder is.
Lucy in the sky with diamonds.
What??? My kids wouldn't be doing it.
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It doesn't sound appropriate to me, but I think it's like a lot of those kid's books in the Goosebumps series or Paul Jennings - maybe it's based around something like this. Have a chat to the teacher and find out where the idea comes from. Putting it in context may help a bit but I still don't think it would be appropriate.
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Well I wrote a murder story when I was 9 years old during creative writing at school. It took place at school and all my friends were clamouring to be a character in it and the murderer character was an axe murderer so the story got a bit gory. The teacher was fully aware of it and didn't discourage me at all. In the story, we (my friends and I) were all trying to catch the murderer - a la Enid Blyton. In fact, the story got even gorier because there were so many suggestions from the other kids about additional details to put in.
I can assure you I am perfectly sane and have no psychopathic tendencies, I not have been abused in any way, nor was I permitted to watch or read inappropriate material.
Kids can be gruesome little things at times. Fairytales can be quite horrific too (eating up the 3 little pigs, the witch wanting to eat Hansel and Gretel) when you think about it...but they are all about giving them that delightful chill while still feeling quite safe.
I'd be interested to find out the context, remembering that kids generally don't have the same scope of understanding about murder as an adult does.
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