Nirvana: ok ok I just did

Isaac Walton

Born 9th August 1593

nobleheart:

Round One:

baddessi VS plaintiger
WordWizard VS SandyH
ScarletRose VS Stardust
whatdidyousay VS Nirvana

Nirvana:
I have been to his house, it is a museum and the lakes are up for sale at arround two million if anyone wants to buy them lol!
It is about 30mins from me and very interesting. I myself love fly fishing.

Mousetrap: Really? I prefer fishing for fish But my son is very good at tree fishing. And my daughter caught a sock once.

harley:
LOL! Noone ever catchs the other sock or boot though do they!

Ann Martin

born 12 th August 1955

Our Country Scrabin

Our Country Cabin Fellowship's scrabble game, if anyone in interested in playing please sign up.

Alfred Hitchcock

born 13th August 1899

Tom held his breath as the stampede thundered below. He had sliped on some dirt and rocks on a cliff looking down on the site. He had lost his favorite camera trying to do birdwatching, under the hooves of cattle frightened by a storm to Tom's right. He got off his honches and down the cliff to his jeep and sped away...

Looking through his rear view mirrors he saw the storm forming a tornado funnel. He guned the gas and raced. He could see the scaryest sight ever. All the cattle were sucked up into it. Blood rained down on his jeep and Tom thought the tornado had riped the cattle to shreads.

Nirvana: a truly great man in his chosen profession. a credit to his country/He made the transition from movies to tv genre as if they were 1 & the same. his list of credits is fantastic. i too share your sentiments .whether its his birthdate or the day he died. good evening mook

He almost jumped out of the drivers seat when a chunk of carcass landed beside him on the passenger seat. He swerved off the road and proceeded to a ditch. Lightning was striking the ground around him. It was a storm he had never seen before...

As the lightning moved away, Tom sprinted to a cafe a half mile away. He entered to find people laying on the floor. The windows were blown out. One women was cradling her 7 year old daughter who was crying. The cook came out and led them to the cellar. Tom followed,not knowing what to do. Suddenly the gas stove in the Kitchen exploded and Tom and another guy were the last to go down into the cellar. The guy was fried by the explotion while Tom fell into the cellar and was hurt alittle

Nirvana: orwell 1 of my favs. was fasciated as a boy with room 101. have been in it several times hence. can you doublespeak,or was it newspeak. winston smith ld

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

born 28th August 1749

Tom closed the lid and thge 5 people were packed like sardines. They all heard screaming and a dog barking outside till the noises subsided. "Anyone have a radio" hollared Tom looking at each person. There's one in the office upstairs answered the Cook "No way I'm going up there" "Stay here" Tom said as He forced the lid open and crawled on the restuarant floor. He saw a dark red sky out the window. He found the office with furniture thrown everywhere. The radio was demolished and Tom had to figure what to do next...

ANN MY CARDHOLDER
CELESTIAL HIRERS
HAIRIEST HAG CAT
CATERPILLAR IN COW
ROY RUN A DECATHLON
SMALLER JOEY
GO SKETCH TERN
MARINATES A LILAC
LEN QUERY LEE
ESPECIALLY MINK

LEN QUERY LEE is Elerry Queen

I mean Ellery Queen

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

born August 30 1797

Even More Scrabble

Anyone who wants to join in is welcome to do so.

Nirvana:HAIRIEST HAG CAT is Agatha Christie;
ESPECIALLY MINK is Mickey Spillane.

Raymond Chandler is probably in there somewhere.

Tom went back and told the group there was no hope with the radio. Anyone have a CB in a truck outside. "I do" yelled a woman "In my car.It's unlocked, A 1993 Black Jimmy" He ran to it. The car was covered in blood and the vehicle had a smashed hood. He forced the passenger door open because the drivers side was crushed. No use there for he had no power for the CB. What was plan C?.....

HAIRIEST HAG CAT is Agatha Christie

ANN MY CARDHOLDER
Raymond Chandler

CELESTIAL HIRERS
Leslie Charteris

HAIRIEST HAG CAT
Agatha Christie

CATERPILLAR IN COW
Patricia Cornwell

ROY RUN A DECATHLON
Arthur Conan Doyle.

SMALLER JOEY
James Ellroy

GO SKETCH TERN
GK Chesterton

MARINATES A LILAC
Alistair Maclean

LEN QUERY LEE
Ellery Queen

ESPECIALLY MINK
Mickey Spillane

Nirvana: ROY RUN A DECATHLON is Arthur Conan Doyle.

Allan Bloom

born 14th September, 1930

Francis Parkman

Born 16 September 1823

Mousetrap VS Maineiac
HoneyLo VS abnznz
baddessi VS whatdidyousay
Stardust VS ScarletRose
Capricorn VS bwildman
plaintiger VS sarok
SandyH VS Nirvana
oldhamgirl VS Mary_Jo

Sir William Golding

born 19th September 1911

Looking back at the restuarant the building collapsed and was ablaze. Something had told him to get outta there. He ran along the gulley of the road to a collapsed barn and beyond that a cripled bridge..

H.G.Wells

born 21 September 1866

William Cuthbert Faulkner

awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1949, born 25th September 1897

To Tom's amazement there was a fluid of blood flowing under the bridge ...

(FootNote:This is a story tag if anyone wants to add to it)

Miguel do Cervantes Saavedra

born 29th September 1547

Graham Green

born 2nd October 1904

Thomas Clayton Wolfe

born 3 October 1900

Edward L. Stratemeyer


[Arthur M. Winfield, Horatio Alger Jr., Captain Ralph Bonehill, Nick Carter and many other pen names]



born 4th October 1862

Round 1
Mousetrap/Maineiac† 45 - 89 [In Progress]
Stardust/ScarletRose 332 - 267 [Completed]
†SandyH/Nirvana 199 - 69 [In Progress]
oldhamgirl/Mary_Jo 282 - 350 [Completed]
baddessi/whatdidyousay† 208 - 348 [In Progress]
†Capricorn/bwildman 112 - 94 [In Progress]
HoneyLo/abnznz 370 - 289 [Completed]
plaintiger/sarok 310 - 263 [Completed]

I'm looking for scary stories that would be appropriate for elementary students (to be told in the classroom)

poems, stories, songs... ;) Any ideas?

DanDanDan:

Elementary? Not too sure how old you mean exactly, but my own are between 12 and 15, and enjoy reading, including these:

Skeleton Hiccups by Margery Guyler

Beware by R.L.Stine ( a collection of stories plus a couple of his own)

Raising the Dead by David Cohen, (all you'd want to know about the undead)

The Berenstein Bears and the Spooky Old Tree by Stan Berenstein .

Elementary age students... 6-12

DanDanDan:

4 - 11 in this country are primary, over 11 are secondary.

DanDanDan:

Monkey Crazzy is 12, likes scary things, she read most of those, quite a few when she was younger.

Alvin Achwartz wrote 'Scary Stories to tell in the dark'
and 'More Scary Stories to tell in the dark'
also: 'Ghosts ~ ghostly tales from folklore',
are some of what she has read over the past years ~ she seems to enjoy his books.

DanDanDan: "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" by Irving Washington, could be used as well.

Nirvana: I know silly. I'm an elementary school teacher. ;)

DanDanDan: You may post your question to the poetry and music discussion boards, for help as well.

DanDanDan:

I know you are ~ I was just making sure of the age~group you wanted, also there is quite a big difference between what primary school children (up to 10/11) read and what 11/12 year old secondary school children read. Although I started school in Wisconsin not England, it was a long time ago and I wasn't too sure what age elementary schools covered.