Monday, May 14, 2012
Blog Post #6
I think that school is a reason for killing the love of reading. All of the test and notes we have to take on books is making kids not want to read, and no one like the books that they make us read in school. I think that schools should add some genre fiction books to the curriculum, and have a 50:50 ratio of literary fiction and genre fiction books. Kids enjoy genre fiction books more, so they may actually want to read the books for school. Not just go on spark notes and look up the summaries. Eventually kids may like to read. I think it is important that there are some of the classic books, like Romeo and Juliet, that we should read because it helps us learn about that time period and how the wrote, but every book does not have to be a classic. We should want kids to read because it will help them with writing and it will help open up their imagination and be creative. Reading also can teach kids things, like new words or a specific time period in the past. I think critics can decide what a good piece of writing is, but they cannot tell us what we should read and what we have to read. That is each individual person’s choice to decide what type of books they like and want to read, not the critics.
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I agree that reading some classics is important but that kids should be exposed to other types of writing like genre fiction in school.
ReplyDeleteI agree that reading some of the classics like Romeo and Juliet are important, but it's also important to read books that are relevant to this time period too.
ReplyDeleteI think that it is important to read both yes, but I don't know if a 50/50 ratio would work and i don't think more people would like to read bc of it. My brother doesn't like to read. At all. Yet he read the Hunger Games, and Gregor the Overlander and liked them. Did that make him a reader? No. People like reading or they don't and letting them read the select few they like in class isn't going to work. Once you increase the selection then you get books kids don't and do like. Just because you like one doesn't mean you won't spark note the rest.
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