The document is a collection of responses from students about monsters. It includes definitions of monsters, descriptions of their physical characteristics and behaviors, where they come from and live, and comparisons between different types of monsters. The students discuss what monsters look like, what they eat, and their purposes for existing from a child's imaginative perspective.
4. What is a monster?
• They’re a weird slimy ball of nothing
with sharp teeth and hair all over.
• They are zombies who eat brains.
• They are vampires.
• Fairies!
• They are mean people
5. What makes a monster a monster?
• They are slimy and spiky.
• They are big and crazy.
• They eat parts of your body, and brains.
• They drink blood.
• They have to many eyes and fall apart.
• They are there to scare you.
6. Where do monsters come from?
• They come from different planets.
• They live under your bed.
• They live in your closet.
• They live in fire.
• They live in dirty places.
7. Where monsters live Girl vs. boy monsters.
and come from. Differences between
What they would do if aliens and zombies
they met monsters. being monsters.
What monsters look Favorite part of the
like. book.
What monsters eat. Reason for the
monster being there.
Similarities Differences
8. Visiting the Henry Barnard school to
read a book to the first grade class was a
bit overwhelming but was fun and
enriching. The kids enjoyed and
responded to the story with more
imagination and then expected, and
opened our eyes to see what a child
typically thinks a monster is.
9. • The class teaches us about different
monsters and cultures in which they are
from, and the kids taught us about the way
they see monsters and what their purposes
are.
• Poole and Gilmore give us the historical and
factual information whereas the kids have a
“been there done that” type of attitude
towards monsters.
