Readicide is not a problem in schools. Books that are read in school are different than the books that people read for pleasure. The entire reason for reading certain books in school is to understand how classic writers wrote and to study certain literary techniques. Popular books will always change. For example last year a popular book was The Hunger Games but in the past few months a more popular book is Divergent. For example Romeo and Juliet isn’t a very popular pleasure read. Schools feel that books like that are important in the curriculum because they a classic must reads’ that most people will not read at home. A text like Romeo and Juliet can be confusing at certain points and that is why teachers help you understand and find good techniques to figure out these texts. I think that adding some genre fiction is fine for the curriculum but removing literary fiction and replacing it with the genre fiction is not good. I would not like switching classics like those with newer popular books. I think that popular genre fiction books are better for at home reading but books that are classic are harder to read on your own time. If you are forced to read a book you end up having the experience of reading a classic that you are expected to read in your life time. A 21st century reading list should have classics like, Of Mice and Men, The Great Gatsby, The Kite Runner, Romeo and Juliet, The Hunger Games, Divergent. Literary Fiction may not have the same technology or thoughts as we do in our current society. But having to read books like this help us realize what was happening in the times that these were written. These books connect us to the past.
Monday, January 27, 2014
Blog 6
Readicide is not a problem in schools. Books that are read in school are different than the books that people read for pleasure. The entire reason for reading certain books in school is to understand how classic writers wrote and to study certain literary techniques. Popular books will always change. For example last year a popular book was The Hunger Games but in the past few months a more popular book is Divergent. For example Romeo and Juliet isn’t a very popular pleasure read. Schools feel that books like that are important in the curriculum because they a classic must reads’ that most people will not read at home. A text like Romeo and Juliet can be confusing at certain points and that is why teachers help you understand and find good techniques to figure out these texts. I think that adding some genre fiction is fine for the curriculum but removing literary fiction and replacing it with the genre fiction is not good. I would not like switching classics like those with newer popular books. I think that popular genre fiction books are better for at home reading but books that are classic are harder to read on your own time. If you are forced to read a book you end up having the experience of reading a classic that you are expected to read in your life time. A 21st century reading list should have classics like, Of Mice and Men, The Great Gatsby, The Kite Runner, Romeo and Juliet, The Hunger Games, Divergent. Literary Fiction may not have the same technology or thoughts as we do in our current society. But having to read books like this help us realize what was happening in the times that these were written. These books connect us to the past.
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