I mean, it's a good poem, though I think I might even hesitate to assign it to high schoolers, TBH.
But the website home page features a cute cartoon fox and appears to be aimed at bright, but YOUNG children. Two clicks from there, we're putting bullets through our heads?
I looked at the reading lists. I remember them now--I saw them a few years ago. They're nice lists of classics, though Goodnight Moon is out of place on a list for gifted kids in grades K-3, and there are other examples like that. Anyway, the book lists are decent, but dated, and sort of odd in terms of reading level. (Poor leveling of book lists is a pet peeve of mine. I'm forever seeing people recommending Anne of Green Gables to typical 8-year-olds, for instance. It's a lovely book, but today's average 8-year-old is going to be WAY over her head with it. On the other end of the spectrum, you also get people thinking first graders want to read "Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?")
Last edited by ultramarina; 06/05/13 12:08 PM.
