The I survived series of books have become very popular in my school. It really amazes me how kids do not get the concept of historical fiction. Either everything is true or it's all made up. They do not understand how a made up story can use real events from history. The other day I was checking out the book "I survived the sinking of the Titanic." The student turned to me and asked me... "Rose was the only one who survived that, right?" It took a minute before I realized he was referring to the movie Titanic. "Honey, that was a made up movie. The Titanic was real, but the people in that movie were mostly made up". I'm still not sure he got the idea.
I told this story to another teacher who also pointed out the fact that a 4th grader probably shouldn't be familiar with a movie that shows sex and nudity. Hopefully he watched the edited TV version.
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