Keystone Magazine Learning the Keystone Way 2015-2016 EN | Page 32

Learning is Fun
Plots, Podcasts
and a Peculiar
Door to Narnia:
Grade 8 solves campus mysteries
“ H
ave you ever
wondered where
that mysterious
door bet ween
the first and
second floor of
the Keystone dorms lead to?
Perhaps to a ventilation system,
garbage disposal shoot, or is it
just a door to Narnia?” And im-
mediately, this first sentence
in one of the grade 8 podcasts
not only lays the plot, but also
draws you in begging to know
more. Split into four groups, stu-
dents from grade 8 produced
podcasts from their English unit
titled ‘Crime and Justice’. The
idea was inspired from a pod-
cast series called Serial that nar-
rates the mystery of a fictional
murder.
“I first found Serial two years
ago, and was absolutely enrap-
tured by it,” said Chelsea Prehn,
middle and high school English
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