A couple months ago I thought it would be a good idea to buy a copy of "The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe" by C.S. Lewis and use it to teach one of my classes.
It was actually, in fact, a bad idea. The language is too British, and the range in vocabulary and grammar is too difficult for my kids.
I was determined to make it through the book though, so I decided to just rewrite each chapter, dumbing down the language and sentence structure, as well as changing it to everyday English.
Again, not such a great idea. While the material became a little easier for the kids to digest, it increased my workload drastically.
This led to another idea: What if I start changing the story by shortening it and adding little touches of ridiculousness to it?
For example: The children have all entered Narnia together for the first time, and are about to meet the beavers. In the original story, a little robin who hears what they're talking about leads them to the beavers. So far, my best idea has been to change the robin to a winged giraffe that tries to sell them used tires.
Anybody got any better ideas?
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