Re: [Mid] Just Potterin' around....

My younger son had no interest is reading anything, until his cousin turned him
on to Harry. Now I have almost as much "problem" getting him to put books down
as his older brother (reading to the exclusion of all else). The younger one
has read all 4 HP and gone on to many other varied books. I for one am thankful
for HP because my son now has developed an interest in reading. BTW the younger
one is 13...

YIS

Wolfger

From: "Jen" <jenster@gate.net>

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> Sent: Friday, December 21, 2001 3:33 PM
> Subject: [Mid] Just Potterin' around....
>
> > I wasn't buying into the emerging "trend" of Harry Potter a whole
> > year ago, but one of my Emotionally Handicapped students (I have a
> > self-contained E.H. and Learning Disabled classroom, 6-8 grade, 11-14
> > year olds) was having severe abandonment issues because a year
> > earlier his mom was reading a book to him, stopped to go out for a
> > crack deal and never came back. A sweet counselor let him come to
> > her office each day with his lunch to listen to her read the rest of
> > that book to him. Well, the book got finished and they next started
> > reading Harry Potter vol.1, and since I was ducking in there all the
> > time to do some computer work (plus he was one of my favorite
> > students) I started listening to the story. After a while I was
> > totally engrossed in the story and had to borrow the book when they
> > were through with it!
> > I recommend: read the book, go see the movie, enjoy it, and
> > remember that the ironical part of my little story was that the book
> > was written by a single mom who was trying desperately to make ends
> > meet, and after showing some parts of her story to a panel they cut
> > her a grant so that she could devote time to finishing the books.
> > This same book also helped turn around my student who had been left
> > behind by his struggling single mom. I have enough reasons, I think,
> > to believe in supporting the Harry Potter series. My class threw a
> > surprise birthday party for me today, and got me vol.1-3, and when I
> > came home I found my wonderful In-laws (Foote the Potter and Grainne)
> > had gotten me the fourth book!
> >
> > Jen
> >
> > >I'm not sure how anyone could admit to not reading "anything" of merit
> and
> > >be proud of it. It's really very sad. Many of the great classics were
> > >written as children's books. You can take whole college courses on many
> of
> > >them.
> > >Avacyn
> > From: Jen <jenster@gate.net>
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> From: "Stephen Huff" <grimwulf@sigecom.net>
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From: Dean Hamann <dhamann@uindy.edu>
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