Perhaps not the wisest lesson plan...

[sunnyskywalker]

An integrated-curriculum unit on an Agatha Christie story has all sorts of great educational possibilities, as this page shows. However, I am not convinced of the wisdom of this particular suggestion:

In Industrial Arts a student can make a “stiletto.”

As in, the kind you use to murder someone, not the kind you hobble around in. This is for middle schoolers. There is no way this could go wrong AT ALL.

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[4thofeleven.livejournal.com]

"No, no, officer, I wasn't brandishing a knife - it's an art project!"

[sunnyskywalker]

Clearly, this project is not for zero-tolerance schools.

It also sounds like the setup to a mystery: enthusiastic young teacher has kids make stilettos, teacher is soon found in office stabbed with a stiletto, student detective takes up the case...

...and then, knowing midddle schoolers, it turns out that a) the teacher faked the death, hoping to inspire students to work together at a cozy detective mystery and figuring they wouldn't believe that was real blood, and b) the teacher ended up with Lord of the Flies instead.

[4thofeleven.livejournal.com]

Either that, or it's an attempt to get away with murder by creating an entire class of suspects!