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08-08-2003, 05:09 PM
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Original sources: Moreover and HPANA
Most children complain about their textbooks being boring, which is easy enough to understand. So why is it a different story when it comes to reading Harry Potter even if the book is 800 pages?
Today's textbooks represent a major achievement in visual design. They glitter with charts, photographs, drawings and advice. But they are boring.
I asked a major publisher why the textbooks are so heavy with graphics. He said, "American kids don't like to read anymore. They are so accustomed to watching television and the Internet that a book can't hold their attention without lots of visual stimuli."
The success of the Harry Potter series shows that this assumption is wrong. American youngsters will read books that are exciting and well written, regardless of their graphics. They devour the Potter books because author J.K. Rowling has infused them with classic themes drawn from legend and myth, as well as biblical imagery. Like J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings books, Rowling's books resonate with suspense, mystery, intrigue and showdowns between the forces of good and evil.
In contrast to the gripping tales told by Rowling and Tolkien, our history textbooks skim lightly above the surface of events, ignoring the fact that history is first of all a story. The history books excel at mentioning vast numbers of events, people, and ideas and compressing them into short summaries of a page or two. The drama of history and biography is sacrificed to the imperative of "covering" everything in a single volume. Clashes of good and evil have been banished, replaced by pedestrian prose and thumbnail sketches.
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08-08-2003, 11:56 PM
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| | Skrewt
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Quote: Most children complain about their textbooks being boring, which is easy enough to understand. So why is it a different story when it comes to reading Harry Potter even if the book is 800 pages? Well Text books are educational, and I mean, Harry Potter books just arnt. They take the good and evil, and book thing out for a reason! Its because some people are offended by those, and arnt allowed to read them, especilly in Christian schools! So there is a reason for everything, it wasent just some far fetched plan to bore us, infact, I like the history text books! I like history!
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08-09-2003, 12:19 AM
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| | Niffler
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Err... how could they even compare textbooks and Harry Potter? 
Textbooks are just unappealing all over. Elaborate graphics or not, kids just generally... don't like them. Nothing to do with the length really.
Kids just would rather read storybooks than... textbooks.
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08-09-2003, 01:24 AM
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let's see :ermsmile: ...which would I rather read....a textbook filled with a bunch of vocabulary words and facts :ermsmile: ...or a story about a place I never knew about before reading the book  ....there is just no comparision...kids like storybooks because they don't have any educational value and aren't about fact, whereas textbooks really don't tell a story, only what we call facts (sorry, I'm taking a philosophy class and we were asked how we really know what history is true...)...
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08-09-2003, 03:28 AM
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[COLOR=pink][SIZE=7]Wow. you must be a teacher if you think text books are interesting. Harry Potter is nothing like a text book b/c all 5 HP books rock. B)
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08-09-2003, 08:36 AM
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| | Glumbumble
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kids in christian schools really aren't allowed to read the hp books???
that's stupid. and, of course, I rather read a book with a plot, than some textbooks. *uargh*
and who reads his textbooks from school in his free-time (except hermione granger, but at least her textbooks might be interesting...) ?
and I don't think that even teachers like their textbooks because in some subjects we never used one...
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08-09-2003, 05:14 PM
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| | Skrewt
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Hey, story books can have educational value, you know. But, I'm not talking about algebra...and vocabulary...and stuff like that. I'm talking about...like moral values---which can be educational one way or the other...
And I don't like reading textbooks. They bore me to death. Except literature textbooks...the one with 'short' stories. (They're not really short...)
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08-09-2003, 10:50 PM
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| | Glumbumble
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here is how I see things. a text book can put all the things that we "must learn" into the most boring format of all. I think that is what they were ade for, but hey that is just me. but on the other hand, and back to the point, stories like HP, and LOTR put the vocabualry, and dates, and places, and names into something that we all like and enjoy, and can accually STAND!! so would I rather get all that from a text book or a REAL book? I will take the real thing. besides, if all we are teaching people/kids is that books are bring, and all like the text books, then it is NO WONDER that they wont pick up a book. but HEY that is only my opnion, not like anybody cares to listen and maybe make our time in school worth anything!!
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08-10-2003, 07:48 AM
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Yeah...me too.........for me if Tom's hair wasn't slicked back,he look marvelous :wub: :musicnote: :heart: [COLOR= lightblue ]
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08-10-2003, 10:07 AM
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[...Duh....it's not actually it is bad except the 2nd movie,Gilderoy Lockhart,everything it's just about him.....my god....why is he so popular?He's subject in the movie is the only one which had lots of textbooks....sheeeeeeeeeeeeesh.......]  | |
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08-10-2003, 06:30 PM
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| | Gnome
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Quote: Originally posted by henriette wildberry@Aug 9 2003, 02:43 AM
kids in christian schools really aren't allowed to read the hp books???
that's stupid. And comepletely false. I used to go to a Catholic School and the religion has no problem with nor do most Christians. A priest at my church ven used a section of the Harry Potter books to helop the kids to relate to his sermon once. There ARE some extremists that think all witchcraft storiesetc are evil but like I said they are extremeists. Saying that they represent all or even ANY Christians is like saying the taliban represents all muslims.
As for the textbook thingy. I think that history books especially could be more interesting if they put evrerything in. History is more than dates and names it is an epic story. However, the government tries top sugarcoat it so as not to "contaminate our young minds." For example did you know our hero Christopher Columbus was so greedy that he murdered several Indians that would not help him search for gold and tourchered a young boy until he died for asking to keep one gold piece. Think about all the wars fought throughout history. It is like one giant action book that has yet to have an end written.
Last about the good and evil thing and Catholics complaining let me ay this. Since when has the Catholic religion ever complained about this kind of stuff-the real ones not the antimagic extremeists- ? Isnt it almost always the atheists who are saying that WE are doing something wrong...usually something stupoid i might add. For puitting a cross over our door we are told we are forcing our religon on everyone else. Seriously if you are going top make an arguement make a good one.
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08-10-2003, 10:07 PM
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| | Glumbumble
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